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Default *Mini* heatwave on the way

Wijke Ruiter wrote in message ...
:There must be proper definitions for the term 'heatwave" also for all
area's
ver Britain?
:In Holland the heatwave is defined as: "5 days at a row above 25 C; and
:three of these 5 above 30 C". (Temperature at De Bilt-site.)


I don't think "heatwave" has an official definition in Britain. It is just
used in a general sense to refer to a period of hot weather - by journalists
more than meteorologists, perhaps.

Colin Youngs
Brussels



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