Temperatures once experienced only in the south-east have started becoming normal in England’s north-east, north-west and much of south Wales, because of global warming.
Milder winters and warmer summers are spreading north, as well as moving uphill, in hilly or mountainous regions, according to the Met Office’s annual State of the UK Climate 2025 report.
“Our climate is on the move,” said Mike Kendon, a climate scientist at the Met Office and the report’s lead author.
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“Areas like the Vale of York and Lancashire now have similar annual temperatures to those experienced by Greater London in 1961 to 1900,” said Kendon.
