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 days every 3-4 years on average under a high emissions scenario. A …
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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 know, CET has been a passion of mine for many years, and …
May 2020 – CET
May 2020 in central England was a very mild month with mean temperatures of 12.49°C, which was 1.33°C above the 1961-1990 LTA. The high number of very warm days that occurred during the second half of …
Spring 2020 – CET
It is not that surprising that meteorological spring 2020 was yet another very mild affair when 30 out of the last 32 springs in central England were also above average. I made the mean temperature 9.88°C, …
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 central England. The current anomaly is +1.07°C above the 1961-1990 LTA. The …
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 cold start to that May, but the synoptic situation looks similar to …
April 2020 Central England Temperatures
It was quite an interesting April as far as Central England temperatures were concerned. As far as I can see it was the fifth warmest April, not only in the daily series which began in 1772, …
High April mean helped by warm days but held back by cold nights
As is often the case in spring across IONA mean temperatures although bolstered by warm afternoons during the day can be held back by colder than average nights. So far this April mean minimum temperatures [18-06] …
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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 did that by splitting the window in mey Daily CET application into …
10 April 2020 – warmest on record in central England
The maximum temperature yesterday (10 April 2020) in central England of 22.4°C was provisionally the highest since the daily maximum series started in 1878, exceeding the previous maximum by a massive 2.4°C. Yesterdays maximum anomaly was …
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March 2020 – rather mild across central England
Mean temperatures for March 2020 came in at 6.71°C, which was +1.16°C above the extended 1772-2018 long-term average for the month. Using the more usual 1961-1990 LTA the mean maximum anomaly was +1.69°C and very much …
Winter 2019-20 in central England
Yet another very mild winter in central England, with a mean temperature of 6.15°C that was +2.07°C above the 1961-1990 LTA, making it the ninth mildest since 1772, and the mildest since 2015-16. This daily CET …
Spring has sprung!
I am bit late on this one, and it won’t come as a big surprise for people further south but spring has sprung, well at least in central England. It happened on the 17th of February …
Winter [DJF] 2019-20 tenth mildest
Winter 2020 was the 10th warmest winter since 1659 in Central England. The mean temperature was 6.16°C which was +2.24°C above the 1772-2019 long-term average. Rather underwhelmingly it was the warmest winter since 2015-16, but it …
Monthly CET Charts
I’ve finally got around to publishing the latest charts of monthly central England temperatures for the whole year.
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?
Yet another mild winter
As winter 2019-20 draws to an end, it looks like it will end up being the ninth mildest since 1772 in the central England series.
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.
January 2020 in central England
January’s continue to warm in central England at the rate of +0.093°C per decade if you use a linear trend on the daily extreme data that started in 1878.
A look back at 2019 in central England
The super mild spell in February was responsible for nine of the fourteen new maximum temperature records set this year.
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.
2019 nineteenth warmest since 1659
The annual linear trend of mean temperatures over the last 50 years indicates a slope of +0.219°C per decade that’s well over a full two degrees of temperature rise per century.