People in Slough facing ongoing Covid restrictions can at least enjoy one piece of good news this week - as their town is revealed as having the warmest winters in the UK.

Heating and boiler experts at HeatingForce.co.uk - an organisation that connects homeowners with best value boiler installers - set out to find the town or city that kept the warmest each winter. They did this by creating an index that took into consideration not only the average temperature but also hours of sunshine, days of air frost, volume of rainfall, days of rainfall and the average wind speed of UK cities during prime winter months.

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The index revealed that the warmest town or cityin the UK during winter is Slough which scored 570 points - putting it way ahead of Sunderland and Poole that came joint second with 500 points.

Slough scored the second highest points possible for the considered positive factors: minimum and maximum temperature (270 out of 300), and hours of sunshine (180 out of 200). For negative factors such as days of air frost, rainfall and wind the points were quite low at 60, 20 and 40 respectively.

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Making the top 20 as the least warm city in the UK was Norwich with 210 points. The city in Norfolk scored a total of 210 and 180 points for minimum and maximum temperature and 140 points for hours of sunshine. A high amount of negative points was taken for wind speed (-140).

The link to the company that carried out the survey is https://heatingforce.co.uk/