What About August 2023?

I take a quick look at the Central England Temperature Record (HadCET) to see how August fared in the new era of global boiling

August has come and gone and, like July before it, we found ourselves popping the central heating on now and then and resorting to sweaters, warming soups and Norwegian wool socks. We would have put a couple of logs on the wood fire but this isn’t a good idea when honey bees are nesting in your chimney. The boiler it is, then.

With weather conditions pre…