SecondAccount404 t1_iztfm4g wrote on December 11, 2022 at 6:50 PM

I just want to say how nerdily cool it is that the UK has been consistently recording temperature measurements since the 1880s so we can have data like this.

DanoPinyon t1_iztlr0x wrote on December 11, 2022 at 7:29 PM

Central England Temperature: centuries old.

Andradessssss t1_izuiwyq wrote on December 11, 2022 at 11:11 PM

I'm impressed that the longest continuous record of temperatures started in England in the 1650's, while some form of thermometer has been around since 70 AD (according to Wikipedia)

miclugo t1_izxgqe2 wrote on December 12, 2022 at 4:01 PM

That is seriously impressive. I found the paper where that time series is introduced and it sounds like they had to do a lot of work to build it because no individual station has reported over that whole time period.