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Old February 17th 14, 11:41 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Where does Lord Stern get his facts?

On Monday, February 17, 2014 8:02:17 PM UTC, Alastair wrote:



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AFAIK The Met Office UK statistics, which are based on official weather

stations readings, only run from ~1910.

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Hope this helps,



Cheers, Alastair.

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Martin Rowley told me
'The 'national series' is a UK-wide, gridded dataset that only extends back to 1910'.
So it's been massaged to give an areal average. I don't much like raw data being messed about like this but I suppose no there no alternative.

Len
Wembury