On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:53:08 -0800 (PST)
exmetman wrote:

I for one feel that the CET series is the one he should be using
but...

The Met Office, bless 'em, have now muddied the waters so much with
additional datasets for both rainfall and temperature, that we just
don't know where he's getting his data!

But why these datasets only extend back to 1910 in a country that
boasts a wealth of meteorological data especially from the Victorian
era beat me!

This might help explain the reason for the different rainfall datasets
but, than again, it might not:
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2...-they-tell-us/

I confess that I don't quite follow this statement, "However, because
it is a digital series it is shorter than the EWP – the number of rain
gauges with data in our electronic archive decreases rapidly by the
early 20th Century." What in tarnation does the the fact that it is a
digital series have to do with its length? There could well be a good
reason for it being shorter but I don't see that this is it.

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