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The Strange Case of the ‘Hottest Ever’ Late August Bank Holiday

by Jaime Jessop
September 04, 2017, 10:52 AM
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Yesterday morning, in eager anticipation of perhaps breaking yet another ‘hottest ever’ record on the last really hot day of the UK summer 2017 (there haven’t been many), the Met Office tweeted the following:

Standby for potentially the #hottest late August #BankHolidayMonday on record today – we’ve got to beat 28.3 ºC can we do it…? 🌡️☀️ pic.twitter.com/Tjo2Mlv68P

— Met Office (@metoffice) August 28, 2017

Alas, come the end of the day, we only managed 28.2C at Holbeach (which surprised me actually, because I’m only 7 miles from there and we barely managed 26C). This must have been pretty galling, missing a new Bank Holiday record by just two tenths of a degree. However, all was not lost. Revisionist Batman apparently came to the rescue at the last minute and the Met Office joyfully tweeted this yesterday late afternoon:

New info revises Aug Bank Hol record to 27.2C in 1984. Today officially hottest Aug Bank Hol on record with 28.2C at Holbeach Lincolnshire☀️ pic.twitter.com/wACWowOv9U

— Met Office (@metoffice) August 28, 2017

I saw this and thought, ‘what on earth. . . . ‘, or words to that effect, and promptly tweeted this:

Are they serious? We didn’t beat the late Aug Bank Hol record so they just ‘revised’ it with ‘new info’ so we did!! pic.twitter.com/C5iJ1L1w1D

— Jaime Jessop (@Balinteractive) August 28, 2017

Well, you would, wouldn’t you?

Apparently, this was all a comms failure and the 28.3C record was unofficial and deemed to be ‘spurious’ and apparently, the person tweeting behind the official Met Office account didn’t know this and they went on to give the distinct impression that the 1984 record had been hastily revised, rather than the 1990 Cambridge record (not mentioned) being thrown out. I would say that was a pretty comprehensive comms failure to be honest.

QC concerns about the 28.3 (1990) being spurious were not picked up in initial comms, corrected to a verified record (27.2 in 1984).

— Mark McCarthy (@markpmcc) August 29, 2017

Paul Homewood has written about it here. The Mail has splashed the news here so it’s now official and officially in the public consciousness – it’s been the hottest late August Bank Holiday evah! courtesy of one hot day in a summer that’s generally been pleasant but unimpressive and distinctly cool at times. Global warming innit.

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