On 7 Dec, 12:57, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

That looks like an error Steve ... the national record for December
is only 18.3°C, and that was strongly f?hn assisted in northwest
Scotland!

All the Midlands sites in the Monthly Weather Report for Dec 1899
have maxes of 54-56°F.

Yes Philip, you may be right; in fact, I had already put a question
mark next to the daily maximum temperature of 66F for the 5th on a
photocopy of the original hand scripted weather log.

There is another reading of 18.3C (65F) as a maximum for the.7th
December 1900 - this too is under scrutiny - what do you think?

It's strange because in both months these appear to be the only
obviously anomalous readings - wonder what was going on?

I'm afraid I am unable to ask the observer of the day to verify the
readings:-)

I haven't got back that far yet looking in detail of such data;
there's just so much to go through!

If we ignore December maxima in 1899 & 1900, our warmest December day
is 16.4C in 1915.


Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk