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The country also saw a record temperature in the middle of winter with a Met Office observation post in north Scotland recording 16.8C at 3am on December 28 - well above the average nighttime temperature of zero degrees for that area in late December.

Average global temperatures for the past five years are 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, the EU report shows.

However, Europe is actually outstripping that, averaging almost 2C warmer than the levels in the benchmark period of the latter 19th century.

The global Paris Agreement on tackling climate change