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Summary The year 2011 was Britain's second-warmest ever, the Met Office said on Friday.
Although temperatures in December have in fact been close to average. The mean temperature so far this month has been 4.7 degrees Celsius (40.5 degrees Fahrenheit), 0.5 above the 1971-2000 average, a far cry from 2010, when temperatures were 5 degrees below average to notch up the coldest December on record.
