"Stuart Brooks" wrote in
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I agree, I was really referring to the emerging phenomenon of these
daily records being broken being reported by the press as cataclysmic
events.
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Agreed.

the 13th June business is just a statistical anomaly
(albeit interesting to statisticians if not climatologists)
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Heh, well, I did do some stats at university, so that might explain it! And
as it happens, here's another vaguely interesting point: if that 32°C at
Heathrow yesterday is confirmed, then it looks as though it will be a
record for 12th June.

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