Re-ordered for convenience.

In article ,
Shaun Pudwell writes:

"John Hall" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Gavin Staples writes:
I took a look at the CET figures and from what I could gather, the
coldest
March on record is March 1674 with a CET of just 1C - incredible. When
you
think what we get today. 1C is regarded as a severe month. To get a CET
of
1C these days is regarded as an unusual occurrence. To get that in
March,
well........

Indeed. What was the CET for March, 1795, as ISTR readi9ng that that was
the coldest on record?

Whichever way you look at it, the readings are not reliable that far back.

Knowing the thoroughness of Professor Manley, I'd suggest that - though
the early values are inevitably less precise - they _are_ reliable. By
which I mean that, since Manley for that period was quoting values to
the nearest half a degree, there's a high probability that the 1.0
quoted was really somewhere between 0.75 and 1.25.

I was merely quoting from the CET table on my computer.

The data can be downloaded from:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research...y/HadCET_act.t
xt

This is what I was referring to:

Thanks for the reference. After checking there, I think I must have had
1785 (CET 1.2) in mind rather than 1795.
--
John Hall

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Oscar Wilde