Sunshine Daisies Butter Mellow (part 2)
A butcher's at sunshine records for the UK over the last 100 years. Are our ice creams melting at the same rate?
In part 1 of this series I flipped back to looking at raw observation data for 34 UK weather stations that the Met Office make accessible through this natty little portal (UK34). Back in August 2022 I started out with rainfall records, then skipped over to temperature records, and we are now closing the loop by considering sunshine records. I promised to furnish a sunshine plot for the longest running data series up at Durham together with a plot for Heathrow Airport (where many UK temperature records are broken). Here they both are: