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 was going on at the time by the Soviet Union and Americans. …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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?
Statistically the coldest night of the year is the 14th of February in central England not a lot of people know that.
The mean temperature of every day in December 1786 was 2.8°C, not a lot of people know that.
A couple of graphs to compare the CET and 1910 gridded temperature series.
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.
Maybe winter 2019-20 might be a late starter as 1946-47 was?
How to use and best understand linear trends and why Central England isn’t warming as fast as the rest of the world
When were the coldest and warmest spells since 1772?
A heatmap of mean temperature anomalies in central England for the last 3,615 weeks.
June temperatures in central England show no overall change in the last 360 years
You would assume that the number of heatwaves has increased in the UK since 1878, but is this the case?
An article I wrote in March about the mild end to February, but just how exceptional was it in the CET series?
Flaming June continues and the 11 June 2019 provisionally ended up as the coldest for that day in central England for over 141 years.
The coldest June in the central England series was that of 1675 but what about June of 1972 which lies joint second coldest?
According to my method of calculating the first day of spring using accumulated mean temperatures, the first day of spring was thanks to a record very mild end to February, was over three weeks early on …
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Warm and cold spells don’t always correspond with the start and end of any particular month and that’s true of the monthly CET series devised by Gordon Manley. The daily series, which is maintained by the …
The warmest and coldest 30 day spells since 1772 Read More »
There was a lot of talk in the media last year about the summers heat wave (2018) and comparisons with 1976. Here is a table of the top thirty warmest seven day periods since 1772 that …
