A new maximum temperature for December in the UK has been provisionally recorded by the Met Office.
Data suggests a temperature of 18.7C was reached at Achfary, in the Highlands of Scotland, on 28 December. If validated, it would be the hottest day of the month on record in Britain.
The current record stands at 18.3C, in Achnashellach in the Highlands on 2 December 1948. The temperature has been put down to a meteorological phenomenon known as the Foehn Effect.