Warmer

Who'd have thought our hottest day of the year would actually arrive in Autumn LOL? This is also the first time since records began (mid-1800's) that September temperatures have exceeded 30 degrees Celsius for five days in a row. Amazing.

Read more from the Guardian.

Of course we can't say definitively what temperatures were like prior to 1850 but this is the date generally accepted by scientists as the end of the Little Ice Age. This was a period from around 1300 AD where global temperatures fell by at least 2 degrees. Some might therefore argue it is unsafe to use perhaps the coolest point in the past 2000 years as the benchmark to record global warming. I'll leave that to others to decide.

Certainly this current pleasant September makes up for an extremely poor July and August.