It is an table I made from multiple screen grabs. No links will work on it
I'd not take much notice of Defra, not know for anything useful or accurate, I used to be in the York office a lot and it was run by zombies running around like headless chickens, and various farming programs and channels seem to think the same.
DEFRA are required to support the Government "Net Zero" agenda and are given to publishing propaganda with the occasional piece of cherry-picked data to 'support' that agenda. The same organisation last year published "record high temperature for UK", that turned out to be from a sensor right next to the runway at RAF Coningsby at the time three Typhoon jets landed! (clicky link) That they use airfield temperature data in any way to support claims of climate change shows mendacity -- and certainly goes against scientific requirements to avoid heat islands etc.
Hmmm... the article cited usual practice: that pilots record times to the nearest 5 minutes and then gave the upper and lower bounds commensurate with the logged times. A flight of aircraft would normally land in close time and that three of the four aircraft recorded times that put the most likely time of landing between 15:12 and 15:13 -- right at the time of the 'blip' in temperature and noted that the temperature was 0.6°C lower just one minute later. At the very least, it's bad practice to rely on temperatures taken at heat islands. Obviously, this doesn't fit with your agenda but it is clear and transparent.
Link please. Without knowing all the details (including the co-ords of the station) you're just arguing from assertion.
All just conjecture, also 45 other weather stations recorded their highest temperatures on that day. That obviously doesn't fit your agenda.
I can’t be bothered to dig back into last years individual records when there is so much evidence of record breaking temperatures. By all means call it argument by assertion but I am prepared to accept the official figures at face value and don’t feel any need to defend them further.
Whichever way you look at it, the previous record was exceeded at 46 different certified weather stations, that must have been a lot of flights across the country by Typhoons.
While that day might have been the hottest that year, it was not the hottest in history and the apparent increase in most cases is because the weather stations concerned are no longer fit for purpose. Perhaps you'd like to give the list of weather stations reporting their highest temperatures. Historically, the 1940s was much hotter than today -- but the "official record" always seems to 'start' after that period and/or the 'adjustments' are made to the official record. Further, many weather stations were either built or have become encapsulated in heat islands and it is this, not climatic temperature, that gives the apparent increase. In the USA in particular, this phenomenon has become epidemic, as the Heartland Institute found at their 2009 and 2022 weather station surveys that found well over 60% of US surface weather stations have an error potential of greater than 4°C. While I haven't seen an equivalent report for the UK, I strongly suspect the same issues apply and so I would need details of every one of the weather stations your argument relies upon so that assessment could be made against the criteria that NOAA, the Met Office, et al. publish but so often fail to meet.
Yes perhaps that is best. Some of us put our faith in official organisations such as the Met Office and NOAA and others in organisations like the Heartland Institute a ‘leading free-market think tank’. We are unlikely to reconcile our views.
So you say but fortunately we have agreed to differ.