Weatherlawyer wrote:

I said at the start of this year it would be a bad one for earthquakes.
There are a lot of consecutive similar spells in here. As it happens
the Magnitude scales for quakes and the Beaufort scale for winds are
somewhat interchangeable.

As far as I am concerned they are caused by the same thing. So
whichever we get, the consecutive runs breaking step will give the
largest ones.

As it happens, some weather stations in Britain recorded their highest
temperatures for the 21st. Early days yet for jumping to conclusions.

But why should that stop me?