May warmer than August
There has been only two instances when May has been warmer than the
following August

1848 May 13.9 Aug 13.6
1833 May 15.1 Aug 14.3

Source: TWO.

My Comment:

I did not realise that this had ever been recorded. What
dreadful summers those must have been. 13.6C for an August CET. These days
we take for granted an August CET of at least 16C or more. Perhaps we
shouldn't :-)

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In message , Gavin Staples
writes

I did not realise that this had ever been recorded. What
dreadful summers those must have been. 13.6C for an August CET. These days
we take for granted an August CET of at least 16C or more. Perhaps we
shouldn't :-)

These summer's came at the end of the period know as the "little Ice
Age", so cold summers were the norm then and for a few hundred years
prior to that in what is known as a 'stadial'.

Recent warmth is a a cyclical shift that is quite normal in any
interglacial back to relative warmth.

Well that's what I teach my students anyway!
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Steve Jackson

In message , Steve Jackson
writes

These summer's came at the end of the period know as the "little Ice
Age"

Bad form to follow up my own post but I want to apologise for that
grocer's apostrophe!
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Steve Jackson

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:02:31 +0000, Steve Jackson
wrote:

In message , Steve Jackson
writes

These summer's came at the end of the period know as the "little Ice
Age"

Bad form to follow up my own post but I want to apologise for that
grocer's apostrophe!

Just saved from the clutches of the Apostropher Royal

JPG