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Martin Rowley · August 14th 04, 07:46 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

On 14 Aug 2004 12:19:15 GMT, (JJCMayes1) wrote:

The August issue is a special issue on the summer heatwave and
drought of 2003.
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Readers may have noticed that Stephen Burt does not accept the UK
national
temperature record set last year at Faversham. The reasons for this
are set out
in a further article in the September issue (in which Stephen joins
forces with
Philip Eden) and this is followed by a reply by the Met Office.

Julian
Julian Mayes, Editor: Weather

.... you tease Julian ;-) Having to wait a whole month more for the
arguments!

Have only just finished the first article, and was interested to see
that even Wisley is questioned at one point .. this I had wondered about
'operationally' but was assured that everything was OK. Gravesend I
think most of us here had doubts about in many instances past. Good to
see that the 'record' goes to Kew, even if not the old Observatory! (If
it is not giving too much away before next month .... can someone say
..... is it *all* maxima from Brogdale that are queried, or just this
particular event?)

On the day, as Heathrow had come up with the figure that beat the
Cheltenham value, *it* got the credit for being the 'hot-spot', despite
our trying to impress upon the media that later values might be higher.
They were somewhat 'miffed' when even at the end of that day, higher
values NOT at Heathrow did indeed turn up. Little did they know that in
fact 'West London' was not far off the truth.

Fascinating stuff and all credit to Stephen, Philip and all for the hard
work put in.

Martin.

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