Hottest Ever? Really?

A reminder of just how rubbish the Met Office’s temperature datasets have become

Last week was even hotter than the summer of 1976, or at least that is what the Met Office keeps telling us. Is that really the case though?

It has certainly been extremely hot the last few days. We have been inundated with daily claims of new temperature records being set, forecasts that temperatures could even get close to 40°C (they did not) and the o…