Mild November keeps UK on track for warmest year on record

A swan poses for a photo in the late autumn sunshine in Hyde Park, west London on 4 November. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/AFP/Getty Images

The UK remains on track for its warmest year since records began, after November became the 11th month in a row of above-average temperatures.

In order not to break the record, temperatures in December would have to drop to almost unprecedented lows, after an average mean temperature of 8.2C over November, the Met Office said.