An elderly women sits in the warm sun surrounded by the shadows of winter outside Toronto City Hall
IN PHOTO: An elderly woman sits in the warm sun surrounded by the shadows of winter outside Toronto City Hall December 4. Toronto and most of southern Ontario has been basking in double digit celsius temperatures for the last 10 days making it feel more like early September rather than early December. Reuters

Experts from the Met Office have said that for the U.K. as well as globally, 2014 might be the hottest year on record. The last warmest temperatures were recorded in 1910 in the U.K. and now, 2014 is said to make the records for being the warmest.

According to the Daily Mail, from January to November, the average temperature in U.K. was 1.6C. It was reported that 2014 was also setting a record for one of the warmest in the Central England Temperature. Since 1659, the Central England Temperature recorded temperatures in England and is considered the longest-running instrument to measure temperature.

The Met Office made the announcement when U.K. was experiencing colder conditions. Night-time temperatures reached minus 5C in a few places while some other places were expecting snow. The Met Office suggested that for early December, the weather was just around average.

According to the World Meteorological Organisation, globally, 2014 is right on track to be the hottest as the temperatures are about 0.57C above the average of 14C. The previous record was 0.56C above 14C. It was reported that if December, too, maintained a similar temperature then it would be the hottest year on record. The previous record was of 2010 followed by 2005 and 1998.

Research shows that the record was being broken fur to human activity like burning fossil fuels which results in the temperature going higher. The head of the climate attribution at the Met Office, Peter Stott, said that their research showed the global temperatures were high and human influence had a major role to play. He added that because of human influence, the temperature record to be broken in the U.K. was 10 times more likely.

The secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organisation, Michel Jarraud, said that the information regarding 2014 being the hottest shows that 14 of the 15 years on record for the warmest had all occurred in the 21st century. He added that there was no standstill for global warming. He said that 2014 was consistent with what the organisation was expecting in terms of climate change which involves record-breaking heat, torrential rainfall and flood which ruined lives and destroyed livelihoods.