It culminated on 30 July, when new records were set. The maximum temperature in Reykjavík 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
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