wrote in message
oups.com...
Someone mentioned recently that North Sea temperatures in winter are
today about 2 degrees higher than they were some 60 years ago.

Currently, the North Sea is around 7 to 8 degrees. This would seem to
suggest that cold easterly weather cannot be anything like as severe
as
it might have been in the middle of the last century.

Does anyone have data for North Sea temperatures in the mid 20th
century?

We discussed this a couple of years ago, when I scanned a page as under
..... this is for *February* (the coldest of the series): January shows 6
to 7 degC central & western North Sea, but well below 5 for coastal
waters near Denmark & NW Germany.

Not quite the mid-20th century, but a mean for the period 1854-1958,
taken from the "Weather in Home Waters" publication.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.w...t_historic.gif

If anyone is interested in other times of the year, let me know and I'll
try and find time to put up a composite through the year.

Martin.


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