BBC offers local comparison of summer heat and rainfall
A BBC News postcode tool allows users to examine how hot and dry their summer was. The report says drought and heatwaves affected many people, but temperatures and rainfall varied between locations; the supplied material gives no individual readings or national totals.
The BBC has published a postcode lookup allowing people to examine local summer temperatures and rainfall, BBC News reports. The report says most people experienced drought and heatwaves during the summer. However, conditions were not uniform: temperatures and rainfall differed from one place to another.
The lookup is intended to show those local variations through a user’s postcode. The supplied material does not provide the data behind the tool, identify the summer under review or give readings for any particular town or region. It also does not state how rainfall and temperatures compared with long-term averages.
The available information supports the report’s central point that summer conditions varied geographically, while the specific results depend on the postcode entered.
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