By Paul Homewood
The Met Office has now officially declared this summer as the joint hottest on record in the UK:
Update: Having further assessed the temperature data for the UK as a whole for summer 2018 the figures are so close that we are declaring it as the joint hottest on record together with 2006, 2003 and 1976.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/2018/end-of-summer-stats
They also confirm that it was the hottest in England, with a mean temperature of 17.16C, versus 17.01C in 1976.
As I pointed out a few days ago, this all seems very strange, because the CET only ranks this summer as 5th warmest, 0.50C less than in 1976, and not even as hot as 1826:
CET Average Mean Temperatures
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/ssn_HadCET_mean_sort.txt
Of course, Central England is not the UK, nor even England. Nevertheless, as Scotland, Wales, N Ireland and the north of England were nowhere near record temperatures, there appeared to…
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