Thousands of crocuses have started to bloom weeks early after unusually high temperatures at National Trust's Wallington Hall in Northumberland
Today is the warmest February day on record in the UK with temperatures reaching
20.3C in Ceredigion, on the west coast of Wales, the Met Office has announced.
It is also the first time the country has seen a high over 20C during winter, according to the weather service.
The previous all-time record for February - 19.7C - was logged in Greenwich in 1998.The balmy weather has been enjoyed across Britain, with places as far north as Carlisle seeing the mercury soar into the high teens today.
Grahame Madge, a Met Office spokesman, told
The Independent earlier on Monday that the rising temperatures were putting the UK-wide record within touching distance.
Comment: It would be premature of the global warmists to declare victory because, while Northern Europe may be basking in unseasonably warm temperatures, across the pond record cold is causing chaos:
'Bomb cyclone' strikes eastern US: 550,000 still powerless from fierce winds
As we've seen in the past, these wild swings in the seasons are merely a prelude of what's to come. After all, this time last year the UK was being battered by the "
beast from the east":
As we enter what appears to be a period of extreme cooling, we can find clues for what to expect from previous mini ice ages in recorded history. As noted in
The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America: A Cold Welcome:
And the reason for this is the harshness of the said country, with the cold that lasts for eight months of winter, to the point, as he has stated, that the rivers freeze over, and the people are always shivering by the fire and there is little firewood...
And this witness has heard that after the said winter come four months summer, when the heat is almost worse than the cold winter; and so the saying there is, winter for eight months and hell for four [ocho meses de invierno, cuatro de infierno]
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