From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Much has been made of the fact that last month was hotter then June 1976, at least according to Met Office figures. Attempts to compare the two months are misleading, and frankly dishonest when used to pretend the actual weather was hotter this year. In short, we are comparing apples and pears.
It is often forgotten that the heatwave in 1976 never really got going until the last week of the month, despite a couple of hot days two weeks before.
When it did get going, it produced scorching heat well into the middle of July, and at levels above anything seen this year.
In contrast, we only had four really hot days last month, none of which reached 30C. In 1976, every single day but one between 28th June and 7th July topped 30C.
To understand the extraordinary heatwave in 1976, you need to look at the whole picture across both June and July. So far this summer, there has been nothing that comes anywhere near that earlier heatwave.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/download.html
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Even in Sweden there has been a clear trend in the highest temperature recorded very close to the average peak of the year which is around 20-26th of July.
Since the mid 00’s the highest temp has dropped around 3c from around 28,5c to 25,3c on the date 10th of July.
https://ibb.co/ycsZZ9RW
This is at latitude 59,13N
How warm was England in the 1930s?
the Central Plains of North America were dry and warm, worst in a long time.
“ hotter then June 1976″
I am wondering if all of the writers of articles, and ‘posters’ of comments on same; all are graduates (in English) of the same school. There is a VAST difference in the meanings of the words “thEn” and “thAn”, yet the number of errors when using either of these words, is horrifying to one who has learned the difference in VERY early Grade School.