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Heatwave: 2018 was the joint hottest summer for UK
BBC News ^ | 3rd September 2018 | BBC News

Posted on 09/03/2018 8:01:22 AM PDT by Ennis85

2018 was the joint hottest summer on record for the UK as a whole, and the hottest ever for England, the Met Office has announced.

It said highs for summer 2018 were tied with those of 1976, 2003 and 2006 for being the highest since records began in 1910.

England's average temperatures narrowly beat those seen in 1976, they added.

The heatwave saw soaring temperatures across much of the UK throughout June and July.

Dry, sweltering conditions for weeks on end gave way to a more average August, said the Met Office.

To the nearest 0.1C, all four years - 2018 as well as 1976, 2003 and 2006 - had an average temperature of 15.8C (60.4F).

That is 1.5C above the long-term average, the Met Office said. The margins between the years are so small it's impossible to separate them, they added.

In England, the mean temperature was 17.2C (63F). The 1976 record had been 17C.

No records were set for other parts of the UK - although it was close in Wales, with an average of 16C, just 0.1C under the current record set in 1995.

The hottest day of 2018 so far was Thursday, 26 July, when temperatures reached 35.3C in Faversham, Kent.

But it still did not top the UK's highest-ever recorded temperature of 38.5C (101F), also in Faversham, in August 2003.

There were winners and losers in the heatwave. Many enjoyed taking the opportunity to sunbathe or spend more time in the garden.

But higher temperatures posed a health risk to some people, and there were record A&E numbers over the summer.

There have also been warnings food prices could rise in the coming months because of the extreme weather.

Having record average temperatures is consistent with the general picture of the climate warming in

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; climatefraud; junkscience
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1 posted on 09/03/2018 8:01:22 AM PDT by Ennis85
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Wow!

When the Chinese create a hoax they don’t fool around.


2 posted on 09/03/2018 8:04:01 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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Just making the invading muslims feel at home?


3 posted on 09/03/2018 8:06:45 AM PDT by Leep
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So they started keeping records in 1910. It is now 2018.

110 years? That long?

We have to act now before the climate changes again.


4 posted on 09/03/2018 8:10:56 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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Coolest summer in NE Florida since living here for 3 tears, based on A/C bills.


5 posted on 09/03/2018 8:15:35 AM PDT by entropy12 (Trump/Pence 2020)
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So they started keeping records in 1910. It is now 2018.
110 years? That long?

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That long?

Temperature and weather record keeping go back centuries in England.


6 posted on 09/03/2018 8:18:04 AM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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They actually have one set of records going back to 1659. In that (called the Central England Temperature series) this past summer was fifth warmest behind 1976, 1826, 1995 and 2003, and just ahead of 2006. The period from 24 May to 23 August was a bit warmer than June-July-August and may have been comparable to the top three in that interval.

It was a season more notable for absence of cool days than extremes of warmth, a total of 36 years since 1772 when daily values started to be recorded have seen a warmer day than 2018 managed to produce.

It was also a very dry summer in some parts of the south, and that applied to Ireland as well; Dublin for example had about half the normal rainfall between May and August and they have watering restrictions in place which is unusual for the emerald Isle.

Overall, a typical northern Ontario summer I would say.


7 posted on 09/03/2018 8:23:03 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (In the alternate universe, John McCain was a one-term president and Sarah Palin a two-term president)
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8 posted on 09/03/2018 8:32:32 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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Cooler than normal in AZ


9 posted on 09/03/2018 8:40:22 AM PDT by Zathras
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I knew all that fevered, white-hot hatred of Trump by the media would raise the temperature of the world.


10 posted on 09/03/2018 8:42:47 AM PDT by euram
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It’s been pretty hot and muggy here on The Jersey Shore. Temps have been in the 90’s for days at a time. We’ve had a lot of rain this spring and summer. Weather models I’ve been looking at say we’re going to have a lot of snow this winter. Maybe the wife and I should get out of here. I’m getting too old for this bs.


11 posted on 09/03/2018 8:43:01 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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A very cool summer here in Kuwait. Hardly got above 120F.


12 posted on 09/03/2018 8:44:28 AM PDT by D Rider
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“... highs for summer 2018 were tied with those of 1976, 2003 and 2006...”

OH!, So it has happened before????


13 posted on 09/03/2018 8:51:42 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Ennis85

In the UK? Going to the beach is what makes my joint hottest.


14 posted on 09/03/2018 8:57:14 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Been a lovely late summer in northern California, a bountiful harvest (so people get to eat this year) with late August/early September days of 85-95 (vs the far more common 110...)

So, umm, don’t change anything, please.


15 posted on 09/03/2018 8:57:22 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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So it is the hottest ever...tied with several other hot years, including one going back to before the AGW-effect was supposed to have gotten going.


16 posted on 09/03/2018 9:09:48 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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The hottest day of 2018 so far was Thursday, 26 July, when temperatures reached 35.3C in Faversham, Kent.


Was that the day the food truck was parked with its generator right next to the measurement station?


17 posted on 09/03/2018 9:11:20 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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But higher temperatures posed a health risk to some people, and there were record A&E numbers over the summer.


Record numbers of the Arts and Entertainment? Now that is a potential catastrophe.


18 posted on 09/03/2018 9:12:46 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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“... highs for summer 2018 were tied with those of 1976, 2003 and 2006...”

OH!, So it has happened before????


19 posted on 09/03/2018 9:25:30 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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My God, the hottest summer day in 2018 was still cooler than the hottest day in 2003. What Bull 💩.
20 posted on 09/03/2018 9:36:57 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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