Philip Eden wrote in message ...

:"Ken Cook" wrote

: Colin Youngs" wrote
: UK max. temps on Friday
: Leeming 21.6°C.

:Do you suspect the Leeming figure is high?

: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 ...

Thanks to Ken for pointing this out and to Philip for explaining what
happened.

It was late in the evening and the Leeming figure did not strike me as odd
at the time. Two other places well away from southern England - Kinloss
20.8°C and Lossiemouth 21.0°C - were also in the list of highest maxima.

I was writing with the memory of a fine and sunny day in Brussels in my
mind - to Ken under the cloudy northern English skies the discrepancy was no
doubt only too obvious !

Colin Youngs
Brussels