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Earlier this year, the UK's Met Office forecast that the average global temperature in 2023 would be 1.46°C above pre-industrial levels, making it the warmest year on record, 0.17°C above the previous record set in 2016.
Shortly after this announcement, however, the Met Office also predicted a wave of cold Arctic air for several days, bringing sub-zero temperatures, snow and ice to many parts of the UK. When winter arrived, temperatures dropped to -14°C in the Scottish Highlands and -11°C even in England.
Ten days later, a village in the Scottish Highlands reached pleasant 19.9 °C , the warmest January temperature ever recorded anywhere in the UK – by a full degree Celsius. That might seem more in line with the global warming trend. But just ten days after that record heat, much of the UK was once again hit by unusually cold and snowy weather .
It's not just the UK. This winter, record low temperatures were seen in Canada , USA a China . (Neven S. Fučkar, more at phys.org)
