Over thousands of years, like humans everywhere, we became used to thinking of the sun, rain and wind as the backdrop to our lives – external entities over which we had no dominion. In the 21st century, this has become a delusion. The unpredictability of weather in the UK, particularly during summers that many wish were drier and sunnier, is associated by many people with what it means to be British.
It was the hottest winter day on record but only by two days..Metoffice takes as winter the entires month of Dec, Jan, and Feb, so this record was only two days before spring...On Feb 13 1998 UK was 19.7..it' s much, much rare 19.7 on Feb 13 than 21.2 on Feb 26 (nearly march)
I'm no denier of climate change, but as I remember it a year ago things were rather colder than 'average' ...
Anemones or Candlemas Caps flowered on 2nd February in Medieval times. This one is flowering today, 24 days late. So we still haven’t caught up with the Medieval Warm Period... By all means campaign against climate change, but enjoy the warm weather!
This is another view about temperature instability and wild weather