Central England Temperature
* The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research keeps records on the average temperature for Central England
* Central England Temperature is representative of a roughly triangular area enclosed by Bristol, Manchester and London
* The centre has established a record extending back to 1659 with monthly figures
* “A data set showing an 8 year moving average of differences from the mean temperature in the period 1961 to 2003″:http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/yourenv/432430/432434/432475/433233/433264/?version=1&lang=_e is available for download from The Environment Agency
* “More details of the CET”:http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/ukweather/ are available from The Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
* “A table showing monthly temperatures from 1990″:http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~mikeh/datasets/uk/cet.htm is available on the CRU Web site
h3. Your turn
# Download the data from the Environment Agency – it is available as an Excel spreadsheet – and plot your own line graph
# Describe the trend shown in the Excel spreadsheet in words – just a short sentence suitable for a non-specialist audience