"Ken Cook" wrote in message
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Colin Youngs" wrote in message
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UK max. temps on Friday
Leeming 21.6°C.

Many thanks, as usual, for the info. Do you suspect the Leeming
figure
is high? Only 14.9C here in Copley and a SSE flow would not give a
fohn
effect in The Vale of York.

Ken, this is bizarre. As far as I can tell, the original SYNOP gave
a
max of 17.4ºC, but a "correction" was subsequently transmitted
changing the max to 21.6ºC which was confirmed at 2100 by
the climat. report (hence its appearance in the various lists).

21.6ºC is manifestly wrong; 17.4ºC is clearly much righter ... and
I'm surprised there was no human intervention to correct the
"correction". I cannot for the life of me figure out where that
21.6 came from.

We're fortunate here in that Leeming has three other
observing sites within a stone's throw, and their maxes on
Friday we 17.6, 18.4 and 18.1.

Philip Eden