And those ‘records’ go back nearly 150 years.
A literal eyeblink in time as compared to the past billion years.
And the oldest of records weren’t all that accurate because the temperature scales weren’t standardized or even agreed upon which ones to use........................
Records 150 years ago are not all complete or accurate. When few people lived in the mid-wester states there were tornadoes that were never recorded. Places that had torrential downpours, never recorded. Storms out at sea, never recorded because there were no witnesses. No radar, no satellites, no computers. Imho accurate records maybe only 75 years or less.