Met Office scientist Emily Carlisle said: “Whereas many will keep in mind the impactful moist and windy climate from Storm Éowyn, it’s a mark of how unusually brilliant different days had been that January 2025 will go down as one of many sunniest on file for the UK.
“We mainly noticed this on account of frequent excessive stress over the UK, bringing clear skies for a lot of but in addition beneath common temperatures with little cloud to lure any heat close to the floor.”
European Copernicus local weather service confirmed the worldwide imply temperature to be 1.75C hotter than they had been earlier than the commercial revolution. It is a 0.1C enhance on the temperature file from final yr.
Dr Friederike Otto, a local weather scientist at Imperial School London, advised Sky: “This January is the most well liked on file as a result of nations are nonetheless burning big quantities of oil, fuel and coal.”
A UK warmth map for January
Met Workplace
