December on course to be warmest on record

Santon Downham in Suffolk and Bedford both had record-breaking December temperatures over the weekend.

• Santon Downham reached 16.0C on Saturday.
• Bedford reached 15.7C on Saturday.

The warmest place in the Anglia region was Writtle, Essex at 16.4C on Saturday.

The highest ever December temperature in England was 17.7C recorded in Chivenor, (Devon) in 1985 and Penkridge, (Staffordshire) in 1994.

This December is well on course to warmest on record in the Anglia region.

The mean temperature (which takes into account day time highs and night time lows) stands at 10.2C in the Anglia region.

That is 5.6C above average.

The warmest December on record in East Anglia was in 1934 with a mean temperature of 7.8C.