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IN continuation of the letter on the above subject in NATURE of January 20, it may be of interest to give a few facts for the calendar month of January, since high temperatures were so persistent throughout. From the beginning to the end of the month there was a neck-to-neck race for record temperature between the Januarys of 1916 and 1921. The temperature at Greenwich for the civil day as published by the Registrar-General's weekly returns shows the supremacy for warmth to be claimed by January of the present year, when the mean for all the maximum readings was 50.0° F., the minimum 40.8°, and the mean of the mean maximum and minimum 45.4°. For January, 1916, the corresponding means were 50.4°, 40.1°, and 45.3°. There is only a trifling difference between the results for the two Januarys, which are the warmest during the last eighty years. In January, 1916, the days were slightly warmer than in 1921, whilst in January, 1921, the nights were appreciably warmer than in 1916.
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HARDING, C. The Mild Weather. Nature 106, 759 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106759c0
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