April 2021 – Coldest since 1986
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March 2021 in central England
Don’t forget you can keep up with all the news about what’s happening with regard to Central England Temperatures on xmetman’s sister site devoted …
An intercomparison of UK temperatures over the last 30 years
I have so many climate programs on the go that I often don’t stop to compare the results from one with the results from …
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New this month in Central England
Just as a reminder to those interested in climate here are three new posts this month to my Central England Temperature blog that I’ve …
Are we going to see more hot winter days like we did in February 2019?
I am not surprised the Met Office described exceptionally mild days in winter as hot, they do it to try and provoke some interest …
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Milder for St Valentine’s day
Despite the milder weather arriving on Sunday across IONA it could still be one of the coldest St Valentine’s day for a good number …
The Great Freeze of 1900
The Great Freeze of 1900 – this is a new one on me. I saw mention of it in a graph of mortality rates …
Was that it then?
It’s certainly been a rather chilly last couple of weeks across IONA. But was that it as far as cold weather is concerned for …
Number of UK ice days slipping away
The Met Office have already announced their new climate tool today that tells you how global warming will affect your postcode, and now there …
Was the severe winter of 1962-63 caused or enhanced by nuclear testing?
I have often wondered if the severe winter of 1962-63 across Europe was caused by, or in someway enhanced by the nuclear testing that …
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Chances of 40°C days in the UK increasing
Author: Met Office Press Office 16:00 (UTC+1) on Tue 30 Jun 2020 Towards the end of the century parts of the UK could see 40°C …
New central England temperature website
I have decided to create a new WordPress blog exclusively for news and information about the Central England Temperature series. As many of you …
Central England temperature league tables
Currently the mean temperature of 10.57°C in the last 365 days since the 18th of May 2019, was the 11th warmest since 1772 in …
Cold days in May
Just looking back at some cold May days from the archives and I came across the second of May 1979, I can’t recall the …
A new look at Central England Temperatures
I thought I would find a new way to visualise the latest Central England Temperature data which I download from the Met Office. I …
Why do some months warm faster than others?
Why is it that mean temperatures in January has been rising at almost a degree a decade for the last 248 years, whilst the temperature in June has remained static?
Valentine’s day and the coldest night of the year
Statistically the coldest night of the year is the 14th of February in central England not a lot of people know that.
The unusual month of December 1786
The mean temperature of every day in December 1786 was 2.8°C, not a lot of people know that.
Correlation between UK gridded and central England temperatures
A couple of graphs to compare the CET and 1910 gridded temperature series.
First day of winter
Temperatures were close to average this Autumn in central England, but it ended up being the coldest Autumn since 2012 in the latest provisional figures from the Met Office.
The winter of 1946-47 and 1962-63 compared
Maybe winter 2019-20 might be a late starter as 1946-47 was?
Charts to please people on both sides of the AGW debate
How to use and best understand linear trends and why Central England isn’t warming as fast as the rest of the world