Provisional full year figures for 2014 show it is the UK's warmest and fourth wettest year in records dating back to 1910.
It is also the warmest year on record in the Central England Temperature series, which dates back to 1659 and is the world's longest running instrumental temperature series.
The UK's mean temperature for the year is 9.9 °C, which is 1.1 °C above the long-...