"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
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Helen Willets said at 09:27 on news24 "It's been a record breaking
night,
very warm indeed". She then went straight into the forecast
without giving
any information on what records were broken.

Curious, when the "night" doesn't end for another half an hour!

And if that sounds like nit-picking, previous records are based
on 09-09 and in some cases 21-09 observation periods, and
ya gotta compare like with like. I remember one night in
August 1975 when I was an observer in Birmingham ... the
min at the 06z ob was 23C and I rang the Evening Mail to tell
them of the new 'record', only to get into trouble because it
started to rain about 0730 and the official min at 09z was
just 20C.

Highest min I've seen is 21.9 at RAF Marham, Norfolk.
Undoubtedly a few local records have gone, and I wonder
about the Scottish one ... 19.5ºC at Aviemore looks very
high for north of the border.

Philip Eden