On Nov 17, 8:10*am, Nick wrote:
On Nov 16, 7:29*pm, John Hall wrote:





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*Dave Cornwell writes:

The fact that 7.5C is the lowest max temp between mid March and
mid November (i.e I would think the months of *late March, April,
Oct and early November often produce lower) could indicate that
2011 will end up as a pretty mild year, bearing in mind that the
South at least had a fairly mild Jan and Feb and Autumn was
above average as well.

And of course April was exceptionally warm. As against that, IIRC the
summer months were cooler than average, but even so unless we have
another severe December I think you will be right.
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John Hall
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* * * * * * * by those who have not got it."
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It's rather annoying that in such a mild year, the three months that
were cool were the three summer months!

Incidentally I wonder if this year would come close to setting the
records for most equable April-October period? In a typical southern
England location I'd guess that all of those months had mean maxima in
the approximate range 17-20C, compared to 14-23 in a typical year.

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Some info from the MetO about the CET. It is annoying that the 3
coolest months were the summer months, I agree. I feel cheated!
However, they weren't too bad in South Devon. It would be hard for
even a very harsh December to reduce the CET below average for the
year, as the anomaly was 1.04C at the end of October and it will
almost certainly rise towards the end of November. To reduce the CET
below average would require December to be the coldest ever in the UK
by a long way.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/h...info_mean.html

Philip has the November CET in record territory:

http://www.climate-uk.com/graphs/201111.htm