On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:28:05 +0100, Paul Hyett wrote:

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 at 10:15:06, John Hall
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

6th JULY 2011

Max °C Min °C Rain (mm)
6.4 1.9 2.7 Ny Alesund(8m)

Does it ever reach 10C there?

A bit of research turned up that it did so on 21st June, 9th July and
20th August last year:

http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/N...2010/10070.htm
http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/N...2010/10070.htm
http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/N...2010/10070.htm

Apparently the temperature once reached 26C there, much higher than
anything seen last summer or so far this:

Was that 4.5 billion years ago, when the whole Earth was a giant ball of
molten lava?


I recall one June, might have been in 1972, when Scandinavia and NW
Russia had minimum temperatures in the mid-twenties and maxima in the
thirties through much of the month. In the UK it was perishing cold and
wet.


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