2022 set to be hot stuff

THE mild autumn has kept 2022 on track to be the UK’s hottest year on record, the Met Office has said.

The UK would need a December of near-record cold weather to stop this year ending up as the warmest in records going back to 1884, the meteorologists said.

Provisional figures show autumn 2022 – September, October and November – was the third warmest on record.