Will this be the UK’s hottest February on record?

Record-breaking temperature recorded in west Wales as balmy weather continues

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Mercury levels surpassed 20C in the UK today for the first time ever in winter.

The Met Office says temperatures reached 20.3C in Trawsgoed, Ceredigion, west Wales, making it the UK’s warmest February day on record. The previous February record was 19.7C, recorded in Greenwich in 1998, while the previous Welsh record was 18.6C, set 29 years ago in the southern village of Velindre.

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