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Climate crisis having "increasing impact" on the UK, Met Office says 

The climate crisis is increasingly being felt in the UK, an annual climate report by the Met Office suggests. 

In 2019, the average temperature was 1.1C above levels experienced between 1961 and 1990.

The UK also had its hottest ever day last year, when a temperature of 38.7C was recorded at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens on 25 July. 

Additionally, a new winter record of 21.2C was set in 2019 at Kew Gardens in London, marking the first occasion the UK had seen temperatures rise above 20C during the winter. 

The climate emergency is also affecting the UK in other ways, with floods occurring in mid-June in Lincolnshire. 

Mike Kendon, the lead author of the study, said: "Our report shows climate change is exerting an increasing impact on the UK's climate.

"This year was warmer than any other year in the UK between 1884 and 1990, and since 2002 we have seen the warmest 10 years in the series.

"By contrast, to find a year in the coldest 10 we have to go back to 1963 - over 50 years ago."