Posted on 07/12/2015 6:56:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Early July saw Britain basking in a brief heatwave, with air temperatures across much of south and east England hitting the mid 30s centigrade. On July 1, the Met Office announced that the UK had recorded the hottest July day on record, with temperatures hitting 36.7° centigrade at Heathrow airport.
The claim was widely repeated in the media—the BBC’s headline read “Hottest July day ever recorded in UK”, while The Guardian opted for a live blog under the headline “Heatwave live: Britain swelters on hottest July day on record”.
But eagle-eyed climate bloggers immediately spotted a problem with the so-called “record”: It was measured at Heathrow Airport, where the hot tarmac and plane engines pumping out hot air can raise local temperatures by as much as two degrees.
Christopher Booker, blogging at the Telegraph pointed out: Even the Met Office’s own hourly record only showed its highest Heathrow reading on Wednesday as 35.9°C, while four other sites nearby showed the day’s hottest recording at just 35°C.
He also noted that: “Even if 36.7°C was genuinely the hottest July reading since records were kept, this would still have been way short of the 38.5°C recorded at Faversham on August 16 2003; or that famous day, August 3 1990, when Cheltenham registered 37.1°C and local records were broken all over the country, which still stand.” …
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35 C = 95 F
Big deal - even in NYC it regularly gets that hot
Few years ago was 108 F ......
I think England is much cooler, I remember a picture of kids jumping into the Thames from a few years ago, they said the temp was about 100F. I thought: really? you jump in the river over that?
I think NYC is on the same latitude as Madrid, so England is much further north that New York.
35 degrees is near freezing..... No wonder the English head to Spanish beaches.
35.9°C, brrrrr. I’m in Vegas, it was getting to 44.44C regularly (112F).
Compared to NY, England has cooler summers and warmer winters. If it weren't for the constant rain, I'd say England has better weather.
I was in England in 2006 during a heat wave and remember headlines saying 100 degrees (Fahrenheit). That is hotter than 37 Celsius.
Last July I was in Death Valley. Getting back to Vegas and it’s cool 105 was a relief.
not much. 37C is normal body temperature, just under 99F
Rome, Italy and Rome, Pa are both located at 41 degrees north latitude and sit on seven hills. But Rome, Pa.—located north of Rte. 6 and just south of the New York state line—has a smaller population and a somewhat different climate.
The real problem with the weather in the NYC area is that our it stays too cold in the Spring and then it just gets HOT. We don’t really get a Spring at all. I guess that’s why the song is “Autumn in New York”.
That’s because of the Gulf Stream.
England is cold, damp and sarcastic
....and has warm beer
Rome PA is also 837 feet above sea level compared to Rome, Italy’s 43 feet above sea level at the Pantheon (the elevation of Monte Mario’s peak is 456 feet).
“Sizzling 60’s - No End In Sight”
That was before they switched to degrees C, of course.
My California wife still laughs at that...
I remember a similar older headline: “London Swelters in 65-degree Heat.” That might not have been summertime though.
I lived farther north in Yorkshire and if it got into the upper 70s the locals were running around half naked. Great time to girl-watch.
Someone I know is about to go on an arctic cruise to Svalbard (Spitsbergen), Greenland, and Iceland. I checked information on Spitsbergen—the highest temperature ever recorded there is 70 degrees Fahrenheit. It is pretty far north.
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