This exceptional event (in terms of absolute temperature) is also unusual in coinciding with the time that we monitor breeding great and blue tits in Wytham Woods: we're hoping to do some assessment of possible effects fairly soon.
Ben Sheldon
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
