By Paul Homewood
As we know, the Met Office have informed us that Wednesday was the hottest June day since 1976, with a temperature of 34.5C recorded next to the runway at Heathrow.
Apparently the previous hottest June day since 1976 was at Worcester in 1995, with 33.8C set.
This is all very interesting, because I asked the Met Office what the highest temperature was on Wednesday after the Heathrow figure.
This was their reply:
So the next highest temperatures, set at Kew and Northolt which are both close to Heathrow, were 33.8C, the same as in 1995.
Only by using the Heathrow temperature were the Met Office able to claim the “hottest day since 1976”.
Many readers will recall similar shenanigans in 2015, when the tarmac at Heathrow conveniently allowed the Met Office to claim the hottest July day on record.
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