In article ,
Gavin Staples writes:

Looking at this table

http://www.climate-uk.com/graphs/200410.htm

This is interesting. The current October is almost on normal track now.

If I'm interpreting the graphs correctly, then since you'd expect the
second half of the month to be colder than the first half we could well
finish below average.

The
CET range for October is from 13.3C which was 2001 to just 5.3C which was in
1740.

That record low of 5.3C, does anyone have any idea from historical records
of course what that must have been like? 5.3 is a normal winter month not a
mid autumn one.
I must also point out that the winter that year in 1740 was a real bone
shatterer. It was colder than 1963

IIRC the overall CET for Dec-Jan-Feb is almost the same for the two
years (with correction made from the HJulian to the Gregorian calendar
for 1740).

and it seems most of that year was very
cold indeed. I still cannot imagine a CET of just over 5 in October.

ISTR that 1740 has the lowest CET in the series for a calendar year.
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