At Kew Gardens in west London the maximum temperature was 14.1C at 14:00, compared with 19.6C on Saturday.

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Temperatures fell to a minimum for the day of 4.8C while the maximum temperature in the city was down 11 degrees at 9.8C.

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As reported on the website Real Science, forty percent of weather stations in the Historical Climatology Network set their all-time record maximum temperature during the 1930s.

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Only one percent of those stations set their all-time record maximum temperature in the current decade, allegedly the hottest on record.

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It is hard to argue that anything above the Holocene maximum (of about 0.5 degrees above the pre-industrial temperature) can preserve a safe climate, and that we have already gone too far.

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It would feel bitterly cold with a brisk easterly wind, with a maximum temperature of 1C, the office said.

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While we're on the topic of settings, you can set a maximum and minimum temperature, along with a four-digit password -- you know, so that the kiddies don't have too much fun using that click wheel to crank up the heat.

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An update through 2012 of our global analysis reveals 2012 as having practically the same temperature as 2011, significantly lower than the maximum reached in 2010.

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Specifically, the 3C wants governments to set maximum permissible levels for a global temperature increase and define greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2030 and 2050.

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