{"id":8741,"date":"2026-01-02T13:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8741"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:22:41","slug":"2025-officially-uks-warmest-and-sunniest-year-on-record-met-office-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8741","title":{"rendered":"2025 officially UK\u2019s warmest and sunniest year on record, Met Office confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In early November the weather was particularly mild with above average temperatures, especially overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Soon after, an Arctic wind spread across the UK with temperatures falling quickly with significant snowfalls for some parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With -12.4 C recorded in Kinbrace, Highland on 11 November, it was the coldest November night in almost 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;Pembrokeshire Dangler&#8221; &#8211; a stream of showers, wintry in this case &#8211; also gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/clyd308zex8o\" class=\"ssrcss-16fdtb5-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">significant snowfalls<\/a> in south west Wales and Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colder weather in autumn hasn&#8217;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<\/div>\n<p>#officially #UKs #warmest #sunniest #year #record #Met #Office #confirms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early November the weather &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}