Since my story last week headed “Mystery grows over Met Office’s 'hottest day’”,
there have been further developments. How could the Met Office justify
its widely publicised claim that July 1 was the hottest July day
recorded in Britain, based solely on a reading of 36.7 degrees Celsius
(98 degrees Fahrenheit) made at Heathrow airport?
When the blogger Paul Homewood (on Notalotofpeopleknowthat)
tracked down four weather stations around Heathrow, none showed
readings on July 1 above 35.1. He wondered how far the Met Office figure
might have been influenced by the siting of its Heathrow temperature
gauge, shown by aerial photographs to be surrounded by heat-radiating
Tarmac and near a runway."
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