"David Allan" wrote in message
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Yes, the Daily Express... that's the same newspaper that had front page
banner headlines at the end of the July heatwave proclaiming that if we'd
thought July was hot, August was going to be even hotter! They certainly
got
that one wrong.

That's the media for you. I heard an insurance (or reinsurance) company lost
around four billion dollars through taking out extra cover because some
unofficial source told them that the 2006 hurricane season was going to be
as bad as 2005.


Then they were going on about how unaturally warm it was mid October,
forgetting completely that we had even higher temperatures even later in
the previous year (I recall it being 21C in Fort William on the Thursday
of the last week in November 2005).


Well, mid October was unnaturally warm if you compare to climatology. Just
because there were unusually warm conditions at the same time last year
doesn't mean the conditions this year were not unusual. What I found unusual
in particular were the 18-20C max temperatures experienced day after day
during the first half of the month only dropping slightly during the second
half. It is the first October where I have not had to put my heating on.