Britain On Track For Hottest Year Since 1659

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"This year is likely to prove the hottest recorded in Britain, The Independent can reveal. It will also be memorable for continental Europe's hottest summer, which exceeded previous records by such an enormous amount that one of Britain's leading climate scientists is now prepared to attribute its extreme heat directly to global warming.

Even though three weeks of temperatures have still to be registered, 2003 - already notable for Britain's hottest day on 10 August, when the thermometer registered 38.5C (101.3F) at Faversham in Kent, is on course to be the hottest year as a whole in Britain in nearly 350 years of reliable records.

Data maintained by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia in Norwich show that, unless we are hit by a sustained freeze of Arctic proportions in the next three weeks, the current 12 months will prove the hottest in the whole of the Central England Temperature Record, which goes back to 1659. The year's expected final average temperature of 10.65C will beat the previous records of 1990 (10.63C) and 1999 (10.62C).

The Continent was even hotter, and the three months of June, July and August were the warmest recorded in Western and Central Europe by a considerable degree. Over a huge area of land from France to northern Italy, the average temperature was above the norm by 3.78C - far in excess of anything recorded before."

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[Stilgar]

1. Has to be global warming huh?

The recent heat in Europe made headlines in the media
and was used as evidence that "global warming" is a fact.
Guess what: human activities had nothing to do with it.

After a brief review of recent history and the fundamentals of meteorology and climatology, it has been possible to determine that the causes of the recent heat in Europe has its origins in a climatic phenomenon known for many decades as the "Jet Stream", strong winds whirling around the North Pole, having a decisive influence on the Northern Hemisphere and the rest of the world. Let us see in detail what is this thing called the "Jet Stream".

http://www.john-daly.com/guests/jet.htm