thermometers

Since 1999, his role involves opening what is known as the Stevenson screen which holds sensitive thermometers, before noting down his readings for the day into the handwritten ledger.

As the UK's national weather service, the Met Office is the custodian of the Central England Temperature record, the longest running weather record in the world, based on measurements taken using thermometers and other instruments.

Forecasters say thermometers could climb to similar highs again in the coming days.

For example, these firms can use such data to put a customer into a “new parent” profile and then promote “higher priced baby thermometers on the first page of their search results,” the report stated.

In hospital records, the thermometers designed to read the body temperatures of patients mostly came out at 107 degrees, which was mysterious until doctors realized that the instruments were not designed to go any higher.