"Ron Button" wrote in message
...
I must be in an irritable mood this morning (ask my wife).

Hi, Ron,

Join the Mr Grumpy club - I really do have the T shirt!

snip

those figures were ESTIMATED by the master meteorologist Gordon
Manley, from various and very diverse observations around Britain
which by
definition were sparce to say the least until 1800 or so.
Not taken from a thermometer hanging on a hook near Birmingham
graduated
to different degrees as time went by ! ! .
So there

The great man would have been accurate to 0.1C in our opinion in NE
England weather circles. Gordon Manley is a bit of a cult hero around
here.

ATB,

--
Ken Cook, Copley (5miles north of Barnard Castle), County Durham.
830ft
http://mysite.freeserve.com/copley
(MO climat. site updated before 10Z and 19Z daily)
kencookATcopleydurham.freeserve.co.uk


---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.548 / Virus Database: 341 - Release Date: 05/12/03