No, not today but in 1910

From: http://www.torro.org.uk/severeweathe...s/maxtemps.htm

I noticed this extraordinary claim:

"Absolute `highs' for each British County were published in Weather, 48,
282-291. A remarkable British `heat-wave' occurred on 6th August 1910 when 28 C
was registered in the Shetland Isles, while nowhere elsewhere in Britain
exceeded 20 C. The extraordinary weather situation responsible is described in
Journal of Meteorology, 9(91), 211-213."

Now to me this seems ridiculous and indeed quite impossible.
I would not have thought 28C possible on Shetland under *any*
circumstances, let alone when 20C wasn't recorded anywhere
else in the UK.

Would anybody hazzard a guess at the truely bizzare weather
set-up that would produce such conditions?

I'm intrigued by this

Col
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