Twenty years ago, I wrote the editorial for GEOGRAPHY REVIEW Vol. 3, No. 4 on the weather at Oxford in 1989. Now I’m in Durham, running a different weather station. If the Durham Observatory is rather younger (1850) than the one at Oxford (1767), it is still one of the oldest in the country and therefore one of the best from which to judge changing climate.
At the time, 1989 was the warmest year in Oxford since records began, so it seemed pretty remarkable. It now ranks joint fourth with 1990 — 2002, 2004 and 2006 were all warmer. I wrote then:
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