On 02/07/2012 20:17, Steve Jackson wrote:
On Monday, July 2, 2012 7:43:06 PM UTC+1, Adam Lea wrote:

It is probably some sort of spatial average over the UK. May be worth
asking them.

Yes Adam, you are right, but shouldn't they tell us in the article how the spatial mean is worked out, over what area of the UK?

This is a bit of Daily Expressism from the Met Office!

Steve J

A brief description of the methodology is given here .... there's a full
list of peer-reviewed references at the bottom

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/.../archives.html

Martin.


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