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METEOROLOGISTS and amateur weather observers with long memories have noted for some time that there seemed to be a preference for the hottest summers to occur during odd numbered years and the coolest during even numbered years during this century in south-eastern England. Many studies made during the past decade have supported the validity of such recollections for a much wider area. For example, Sutton1 and Murray2 have identified the existence of a biennial oscillation of the atmosphere and discussed its effects on the tropospheric circulation in both tropical and temperate latitudes. Davis3 has found a high statistical significance in temperature differences between odd and even numbered years for an extensive area of western Europe.
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Davis, N. E., Met. Mag., Lond., 96, 178–187 (1967).
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GORDON, A., WELLS, N. Odd and even numbered year summer temperature pulse in central England. Nature 256, 296–297 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/256296a0
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