Based on provisional data available, the CET is very close to beating the 1976 record. It is currently sat at 17.73°C for the season and 1976's record is 17.72°C; it will require today's mean CET temperature to be ≥17°C for it to be totally beaten & ≥16°C to be joint 1st.
Displaying my ignorance here, but what is CET?
Central England Temperature - uses 3 stations that roughly covers (as the name suggests) Central England and extends all the way back to 1659 (although stations have been changed over the many years) as it's been homogenised, etc.
Thanks.
That’ll be the year of the ladybird plague then. Only seen 1 this year so far.