February 2011
Our weather is broken: hotter & colder at the same time? Average hi and lo temperature by month, Heathrow, °C 40
hotter !
Summer high temp
30 21.5
25.0
23.9
22.8
20
10
Winter low temp
3.9
0
2.0
0.3
-0.3
-1.5
-10
colder !
Analysis Š The UK Carbon Census Ltd 2011 -20 2000
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Source: Met Office weather station data for London Heathrow, 1948-2010 http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/stationdata/. The same pattern is visible in all the major UK weather stations and appears not to have occurred before at any time in the UK since records began in the 1850s.