Talk:Central England temperature

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How were temperatures measured in 1659? How accurate was it? The first mercury thermometer was invented in 1714 - see thermometer.

Read Manley's two seminal papers describing his methodology and results, and your questions will be answered. Those papers are referenced in the article. JH (talk page) 16:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I have added some details to the extrema section to emphasise the remarkable difference between the current conditions and historic norms. I hope that this backs up the original author's point of how valuable the CET series is.--AssegaiAli 19:17, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Smoothed line

The graph on this page appears to be a running mean rather than yearly data, would it be better to have a year-by-year graph? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexllew (talk • contribs) 17:15, 7 February 2008 (UTC)