Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in UK near 40°C

Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by badcppdev on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:49PM (#32155399)

Latitude of Yuma, US: 32.6° N

Latitude of London, UK: 51.5° N

To be clear they are talking about the air temperature rather than runway temperature and I've added the latitude so you can understand why it's a big deal that London has hit 40 degrees.

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by fdsafdsfdsa on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:54PM (#32155475)

While we're picking random data points - Malillia (Sweden), at 57° N, set a record temperature of 38°C in 1947.

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by MobiusHorizons on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @03:11PM (#32156500)

They are not random. Those are the two locations being discussed in the thread you replied to :)

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by secretsatan on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:39PM (#32156058)

Oh wow, that’s really interesting, was it just a freak event or part of a trend?

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by secretsatan on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @03:57PM (#32157108)

-> Hard to Say

That’s weird, some cursory searches show a definite upward trend for quite some time, i do find these weird sites where they consistently pick outliers in a dishonest manner. It really wouldn’t be worth engaging with them though

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by formerkrogemp on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @03:50PM (#32157011)

Trend. Check out the latest IPCC report for more info.

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