{"id":349367,"date":"2026-01-03T04:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T04:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:51:15","slug":"2025-officially-uks-warmest-and-sunniest-year-on-record-met-office-confirms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349367\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 officially UK\u2019s warmest and sunniest year on record, Met Office confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early November the weather was particularly mild with above average temperatures, especially overnight.<\/p>\n

On Bonfire Night, traditionally a time to wrap up warm to watch fireworks, temperatures were higher than normal with a number of weather stations setting new November minimum temperature records for warmth.<\/p>\n

And in Chivenor, Devon with a minimum temperature of 14.8C recorded on 5 November, it was the warmest Bonfire Night on record.<\/p>\n

Soon after, an Arctic wind spread across the UK with temperatures falling quickly with significant snowfalls for some parts.<\/p>\n

With -12.4 C recorded in Kinbrace, Highland on 11 November, it was the coldest November night in almost 15 years.<\/p>\n

The cold northerly winds also resulted in frequent snow showers across northern and eastern Scotland and north east England where up to 25cm of accumulated snow gave some disruption.<\/p>\n

A “Pembrokeshire Dangler” – a stream of showers, wintry in this case – also gave significant snowfalls<\/a> in south west Wales and Cornwall.<\/p>\n

Colder weather in autumn hasn’t been that unusual in our past climate but in an increasingly warmer climate, snow and ice in early November is and will become more unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In early November the weather was particularly mild with above average temperatures, especially overnight. On Bonfire Night, traditionally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-349367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}