thermometer

So I’ve been quarantined in a corner of the house, reaching alternately for Tylenol and the thermometer.

Sunday was one of those cloudless late-summer Dodger Stadium afternoons in which the flags in center field stirred lazily in the slight breeze and the air felt far hotter than the thermometer said.

Since 1999, his role involves opening what is known as the Stevenson screen which holds sensitive thermometers, before noting down his readings for the day into the handwritten ledger.

As the UK's national weather service, the Met Office is the custodian of the Central England Temperature record, the longest running weather record in the world, based on measurements taken using thermometers and other instruments.

The thermometer hit 27C in Glasgow on day one with forecasts of even higher temperatures to come over the weekend.