What do the records tell us?
The UK's longest set of weather records is the central England temperature series, started in 1659. Rainfall records go back almost as far - and both are now updated monthly by the Met Office.
'The records show unprecedented warmth in the 1990s compared to earlier decades. What's really surprising is how fast we are warming up - it's much quicker than we've ever seen before.'
In 2001 we had the warmest October on record, with an average temperature in central England of 13.3 °C, almost 3 °C above the average for the last 30 years.
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