The UK Met Office has confirmed that autumn 2006 (September, October and November) was the warmest such period ever recorded in the United Kingdom. The Central England region has temperature records dating back to 1659, and are the longest instrumental temperature records in the world. Autumn 2006 had a mean temperature of 12.6 °C, breaking the previous record of 11.8 °C, recorded in 1730 and 1731.

Autumn 2006 was also the warmest ever recorded in Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England and the United Kingdom as a whole.