Summer Temps = 16 degrees C for 370 years
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In Central England, summers aren’t getting hotter. At least they have not gotten any hotter over the last 370 years of measurements (red line shows 367 years of summer temperatures):
The constant summer average temperature of 16 degrees C is equivalent to 61 degrees F.
If using this longest directly-measured temperature series, the take-home message would be that “climate change” can make winters warmer (but not summers). Because more deaths come from cold than from heat, less death is expected from temperature extremes. Here is the longer, annual record (with baseline average from 1961-1990 = 0):
The red shade at right is due to warmer winters.
Reference
[page for first image] — https://clivebest.com/blog/?p=7603
[page for second image] — https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/cet-series
I was around in 1963 and I can't say I specifically recall the year but in junior school I remember snowball fights, rolling balls to make huge snowmen, and, my favourite, long ice slides which we'd made by repeat "skiing" across the same patch of snow in the playground! The last real summer was 1976 with sunny day after sunny day. Now we get planes leaving trails to turn sunny blue skies into weird cloud cover! Winters were definitely colder than today with more snow.