PORTHMADOG hit the headlines this week when temperatures soared to 21.2°C on Sunday.

The unseasonably warm weather there that day has given Porthmadog two records - the UK’s warmest Remembrance Sunday ever, and the warmest recorded 13 November. This beats the previous record by more that two degrees, also set in Gwynedd, 33 years ago.

Tweeting about the record-breaking temperatures, the Met Office said on Sunday: “21.2°C at Porthmadog was a new UK record for Remembrance Sunday, and also the highest temperature ever recorded this late in the year.”