November’s balmy highs saw temperatures reach almost 20C on Friday, nearly two degrees warmer than the previous record set 45 years ago. England, Scotland and Northern Ireland also temporarily set new individual temperature records. The highest was recorded in Myerscough, Lancashire, at 19.5C, followed by 19.C seen in Lossiemouth, Scotland. Magilligan in Northern Ireland had a top temperature of 17.4C and Hawarden in Wales reached 16.9C. The Met Office tweeted: “Today the UK experienced its warmest Armistice Day on record, temporarily breaking the previous record of 17.8C set in 1954 and 1977. As a result of the unusually warm weather, “exceptionally mild” conditions were seen across the UK, the agency added. The warm conditions are now forecast to continue into the weekend, with Saturday looking “unusually mild” and Remembrance Sunday forecast to be “very mild”. Temperatures of 19 or 20C are possible across the country, but the west could see showers. Why will it feel hot during the day and at night? Explaining why it will feel warm day and night for the rest of the week, Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said it was due to a jet stream high in the atmosphere. He said the “fast-moving ribbon of air” was dictating the country’s weather patterns and was currently drifting across the north of the UK. Read more: Check the forecast where you areVideo shows moment distressed dog rescued from hot car “In this position, the UK is on the warm side of the jet and in this small ridge, we have a large dominant area of high pressure across the nearby continent,” he said. “This jet stream will however feed some weather fronts into the northwest and bring some rain here, but the main talking point, I suspect, will be the temperatures.” Scotland saw possibly a record mild November night with temperatures topping 13C on Thursday afternoon into the early hours of Friday morning.
