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Old June 17th 13, 05:43 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default BBC OTT on heatwave?
On Monday, 17 June 2013 17:33:13 UTC+1, Sleepalot wrote:

It used to be that a "heatwave" was a period of very high (for UK) temperatures

Isn't it a period of 5 days or more "officially"?

Sadly today anything more than a day of heat = heatwave. Anything more than a day of cold = "The Big Freeze".

Richard


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