The Met Office wants you to believe that this May just gone was the hottest ever recorded in Britain.
Here is one of its spokesmen, talking to the Daily Mail:
Tim Legg, of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, said: ‘Increased sunshine during the month has helped to keep daytime temperatures high, leading to it provisionally being the warmest May since records began in 1910. It is also likely to be the sunniest May since 1929 too.’
Since records began in 1910, eh?
This is a true sentence: so long as you completely ignore the fact that in Britain records actually go back to 1659.
Paul Homewood has the facts:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html
This makes the month only the 18th warmest on record, with the hottest May occurring in 1833:
Read the rest at Breitbart.
