In article . com,
Tudor Hughes writes:
The temperature here did not fall below 6.0°C but has only
risen to 6.4°C and is now falling. This, if it is maintained, will
make it the lowest May max in my record, starting 1983, and all the
more rmarkable for being so late in the month. Oddly enough, until
1996 my lowest May max of 7.8°C had also been on the 28th, in 1983.

Perhaps irrationally, I find it rather reassuring that in spite of
global warming we can still get as cold a late May day as this. I
suppose that the North Sea and the sea to the north of the UK must be
warmer than normal, given the recent warm weather, and I wonder what the
temperature might have been otherwise - maybe a degree or so lower
still?
--
John Hall

"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)