It's Hot, Hot, Hot - how are you coping ?
I thought I ought to write a post here, on the day that temperatures are likely to exceed the highest we've ever known - after all, it might be a day, week or month which is remembered in history for this very thing. Or, sometime in the future, it may even be noted as the time when we had relatively low temperatures compared with what they are then experiencing - in say, 2072 and beyond, whether due to climate change or not. While the Met Office seem to often say "since records began in 1914" to describe any kind of record topping weather (such as 2007's 'wettest summer' and 1976's 'heatwave'), there are of course records that go back much further. Rainfall and snow is measured by the 'England and Wales Precipitation Series', which goes back to 1766, and the 'Central England Temperature Series' which covers the temperature from the south Midlands to Lancashire, and dates from 1659. Many records have been kept on a personal ...