I thought we had done this yesterday.
It depends if compliance obligations have been meet simple as, nothing to do with anything else.
My guess is that the all-time record wil
l go, and that the reading of 38.7°C as recorded at the botanic gardens in Cambridge will be regarded as valid. My reasoning for this is based on a comparison between Cambridge and Edinburgh (yes, just like Cambridge, Edinburgh also has what is known as Edinburgh University although this isn't quite as famous as what the ones down in Cambridge and Oxford) where the weather station where the new July record of 38.1°C could be viewed as Cambridge's equivalent to Edinburgh Gogarbank which is one of my three local stations here in Edinburgh.
Back in 2017, the botanic gardens in Edinburgh (which is another one of my three local stations here in Edinburgh) became an important focal point as it was the readings from there which confirmed that June 2017 was our wettest June on record here in Edinburgh. Now, I know that I am talking about rainfall records here rather than a temperature record. However, the fact of the matter is that we are talking about a record being broken in both cases.
This means that in order for that record here in Edinburgh to have stood as a valid record, it would surely have needed to have been officially vetted and validated by the Met Office in order for that to happen. The fact that this record now officially stands means that this therefore had to be officially passed by the Met Office in my books.
I've never actually visited the botanic gardens in Cambridge before, but my guess is that the weather station there is probably similar in nature to the one at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which I have visited on numerous occasions. This means that since there was a recent valid recent record set at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh within the last few years, there should be no reason why the same thing can't happen at the botanic gardens in Cambridge so that to me, this all time temperature record is one which should really be standing as far as I'm concerned. This therefore makes it a real surprise to me that this is taking such a long time to be sorted out.
Having said that that though, I could also equally be wrong with what I have said here, although I'm sure that at least one member of this forum will very quickly let me know if I am.