Now I may just be a bitter old Northerner jealous of the South's
better weather but over the past few years I have noticed the
gap appears to be widening. Traditionally, I had always been
led to believe that summer max temps were about 2C higher in
the south than up here, say 22C compared to 20C. However
lately this seems much higher. It doesn't seem to take that much
for temps in the south to approach 25C, a rather ordinary looking
SW flow, for example. However up here 25C seems to remain
relatively unusual in any given summer, whilst down south it appears
to be commonplace.

Is there any statistical evidence that there is any increase in summer
max's in the south relative to the north, or is it just my perception?

Col
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