The average maximum November temperature is 13C in the south of England, 10-12C across the rest of England and Wales, and 10C in Scotland, Willis said.
This included a new maximum May temperature for Scotland – with 29.3 °C recorded in Achnagart, Highlands, on 25 May, beating the previous record of 29 °C set in 1992 at Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden.
The warm weather, caused by a high-pressure system moving across Victoria and NSW, is relatively unusual for this time of year, with Sydney's average maximum October temperature sitting at 22.1C.
36C - Record maximum April temperature, Mogadishu, Somalia.
41.2C - Record maximum February temperature, 1954-2012, Tak province (2005).
Climate normals for 1981 2010 for average annual precipitation, average minimum January temperature, and average maximum July temperature, plus the mean dew-point temperature for 2010 were obtained from PRISM data (PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University 2012).
The maximum OCT signal was defined as the average of maximum signals of 100 A-lines.
The maximum OCT signal was found at SA of around 0.0 to 0.1 µm.
The maximum OCT signals are plotted as a function of applied SA, as shown in Fig. 3(a).
