reached 25.7°C on the standard manned station outside the IMO offices, breaking the former record by 0.8°C. This is, indeed, rare as measurements in Reykjavík
go back to the 1870s, and usually there are decades between temperatures above 23°C.
The last 10 years have been unusual in this respect. At the automatic station at the same site the maximum temperature was 26.4°C - also a record. Just
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