Good morning, everyone.

De Bilt made a new record again on Saturday when temperature reached
+17.2ºC. It's never again been so warm during the last decade of
November; the old record was +15.7ºC (21/11/1947). The KNMI are now
expecting the average autumn temperature to be between 13.2º and
13.5ºC (last record: 2005, +12.0ºC).

Yannis.

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Good morning, everyone.

De Bilt made a new record again on Saturday when temperature reached
+17.2ºC. It's never again been so warm during the last decade of
November; the old record was +15.7ºC (21/11/1947). The KNMI are now
expecting the average autumn temperature to be between 13.2º and
13.5ºC (last record: 2005, +12.0ºC).

The CET will also establish a new record for the autumn quarter, by
quite a wide margin though not as wide as De Bilt's: 12.5°C (-ish) as
against 11.8°C in both 1730 and 1731 oddly. The warmest 20th C
autumns in this series were 1959 and 1978 both with 11.5°C. The
figure for 2005 was 11.3°C.

Philip

In uk.sci.weather on Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Yannis wrote
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Good morning, everyone.

De Bilt made a new record again on Saturday when temperature reached
+17.2ºC. It's never again been so warm during the last decade of
November

Over here, November lasts 30 days, not 10 years.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
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Over here, November lasts 30 days, not 10 years.

Well, that's news!
Last third of November, then :-) I swear I've seen it written on usw,
though; that is, the word "decade" refering to a third of a month.

Yannis.

Yannis wrote:

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
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Over here, November lasts 30 days, not 10 years.

Well, that's news!
Last third of November, then :-) I swear I've seen it written on usw,
though; that is, the word "decade" refering to a third of a month.

"Decade" and "decad" are interchangeable, meaning "a group or series of ten
things" and derive from the Greek /dekad/, though I guess you knew
that. ;-)

"Decade" is usually assumed to refer to years whilst, in meteorological
circles, "decad" tends to be reserved for a ten-day period.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

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Yannis wrote:

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
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Over here, November lasts 30 days, not 10 years.

Well, that's news!
Last third of November, then :-) I swear I've seen it written on usw,
though; that is, the word "decade" refering to a third of a month.

"Decade" and "decad" are interchangeable, meaning "a group or series of
ten
things" and derive from the Greek /dekad/, though I guess you knew
that. ;-)

"Decade" is usually assumed to refer to years whilst, in meteorological
circles, "decad" tends to be reserved for a ten-day period.

Thank you for explaining, Graham. In Dutch the word "decade" (however
pronounced in the French way) - is also used for a 10-day period. As Yannis
dwells on Dutch soil currently -- its confusing .
I'm not an historian - and complete off topic now -- but was it during the
French revolution the months were split up in 3 decades - as they wanted to
get rid of the weeks? (seven days were too Christian?). At least a legacy
for meteorologists?

Wijke
Centre of the Netherlands -- Tc 12.4c - cirrus - S 3 -- very springlike