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No, they are not the record being referred to here.
by mikeash 8y ago
No, they are not the record being referred to here.
- soperj 8y agoClearly not. When you just dismiss any records that are below the current drought, then all droughts can become record breaking.
- mikeash 8y agoThat is not what’s being done. “The record” is a defined set of data that’s considered to be reliable. In this case, it covers the period starting when consistent, scientific meteorological observations were being regularly recorded.