The current temperature variations around the country seem to illustrate the
considerable differences from place to place in certain weather conditions .
Today for instance my temp goes up and down with every passing cloud ,as my
screen is on a south facing slope which before the trees come into leaf gets
a good cooking at this time of the year .
At George Booths Epping site about 6 miles north of here ,his 1140z temp was
3.7c whilst mine 5.6c !,which I think raises several questions about the
validity of record breaking events throughout the years.
The 2003 August 10th heatwave record seemed to be dependent on which side of
a hedge the screen was positioned,and I noticed that day a variation im my
garden of nearly 3 degrees dependent of where my thermometers were placed.
As there are millions of variations as to where thermometers can be placed
( excluding the obvious rude ones) perhaps we can take some records with a
large pinch of salt ??.
Stephen Burt of COL and Philip Eden have done some work on this I think so I
would not be so presumptious as to question their findings of course .

RonB