Can we not just have a boring, average and non-extreme winter for once? It seems like every month at the moment needs to break records. Just my thoughts.
Just received an email from Tim Burt to say that the official max from Durham Uni Observatory for 19th July 2022 was 36.9 degC, beating the old record (32.9, 25/7/2019) by an astonishing 4.0 degC.
That reading is from a different site to the Durham Uni Observatory at Potters Bank. The AWS readings you quote are from the Geography Dept AWS. However, once the official max is in tomorrow we’ll know for sure. I expect 35-36 degC
That’s the whole difficulty with Climate Change. Normal climates are replaced with new normals. Places that had unstable climates may find they now have more stable ones.
Climate zones appear to be migrating poleward. That brings the climate of France to the UK.