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You getting 95F in early September sounds a lot more plausible than somewhere up here getting 96F though, don't you agree?
Yes I do agree with that, but south Yorkshire has set temperature records before hasn't it? It seems to be the only place north of London that is regularly one of the hottest spots in the country
Yes I do agree with that, but south Yorkshire has set temperature records before hasn't it? It seems to be the only place north of London that is regularly one of the hottest spots in the country
Look at the list of daily high temperature records for the warmer months of the year in that link you posted:
There has been one in Worksop, which is in Nottinghamshire but fairly close to South Yorkshire, and Wakefield in West Yorkshire has a joint record - taken at a site which recorded a daily high record in late March which is itself disputed. There are a few other records broken in unlikely places, but all the ones from the past 50 years were broken further south than where we're talking about.
I can believe that there have occasionally been days when it's been warmer here than in the south, but with the 96F one we're expected to believe that it was both warmer in the north that day and warmer than anywhere else in the north has ever been before or since, even outside the optimum time of year for peak heat and in a place with no UHI effect or foehn effect I know of, and in an era where equipment probably wasn't standardised to the extent it is now. Sounds too good to be true.
Your English heat records seem so wimpy to me. But then thinking again, London's record is only 2°C less than mine. Note Bella Coola in western BC at London's latitude recorded a hotter temperature than my town. 41.2°C. Must have melted a lot of mountain snow and glacier up above.
27F (1917) Will NEVER be broken due mainly to todays UHI.
Same thing with -15F (-26C) in NYC in 1936.
In fact, 0F hasn't happened since 1994. And the temp at Central Park hasn't dropped below -4F since the 1930s. Lowest since 2000 was 1F in 2004. This year surprisingly reached 2F. The average annual low (since 2000) is 8F, I think.
I would disagree regarding the sites mentioned there along the west coast. Normal distributions don't really work for extremes in those climates, the 90F at UCLA will likely be broken in the next 20 years in my opinion, just needs a certain, very possible setup.
A good example of something not mentioned in the map is NYC's record low of -15 will 100% never be broken due to a combination of warming and (mostly) UHI.
The -2 F in Tallahassee seems unlikely to be broken. It hasn't even dropped below 14 F since 2000, and hasn't gone below 10 F since 1989 I believe. It would take something very extreme for Tallahassee to drop below 5 F.
I don't think the January, February and March cold records around here will be beaten in my lifetime to be honest...
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