Europe experiences hottest summer on record, scientists say

Deutsche Welle ^ | 09.08.2021 | wd/rs (Reuters, AP, dpa)

[hinckley buzzard]

Doesn’t even make mathematical sense. Take 30 scores and find an average. That means many scores in the sample will be above average, many below average. Now compare a new score to the average x, find it is only x+1. How can a 30 year average not have even one year that was average plus 1?

[bgill]

It all evens out. Texas has experienced a very cool and wet summer. It just now started getting up to barely reaching 97 degrees. Most summers we have 100 days of 100+ and not a drop of rain.

[Organic Panic]

“That’s weather, not climate” - experts say

[Chode]

damn science...

[rfp1234]

[MAGAthon]

while Britain complained they had no summer.

[reintarnation]

...And those records go back 5 billion years, give or take 4.9999999999 billion.

[blueplum]

I had to laugh at a recent Mail headline about an 85 degree ‘heatwave’ in London. That’s nighttime in the summer in the desert!

[Beowulf9]

Australia had record cold and snow, I heard.