The weeks of our lives
A heatmap of mean temperature anomalies in central England for the last 3,615 weeks.
Category: CET
June temperatures in central England little changed since 1659
June temperatures in central England show no overall change in the last 360 years
Heatwave frequency and duration in central England since 1878
You would assume that the number of heatwaves has increased in the UK since 1878, but is this the case?
Heatwave hype
If it’s severe weather then it must be down to global warming
February temperature jump was incredible, says climate expert
An article I wrote in March about the mild end to February, but just how exceptional was it in the CET series?
11 June 2019 – Coldest day in central England for over 141 years
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 cold June of 1972
The coldest June in the central England series was that of 1675 but what about June of 1972 which lies joint second coldest?
Yet another mild spring in central England
All but two springs in the last 31 years have been mild and several of them very mild with anomalies close to +2°C
Latest daily Central England Temperature reminder
An interactive graph of the latest daily CET values is now available for anyone to use.
Spring 2019 over three weeks early in central England
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 the 26th of February this year (2019). Not a record, but nonetheless very early and forcing the linear trend from 1772 down slightly steeper, so that springs on average are arriving 20 days earlier than they did 247 years ago.
The warmest and coldest 30 day spells since 1772
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 Met Office extends back to 1772, is even more useful, so I set about writing some code to look for the warmest and coldest 30 day spell (or any other arbitrary length period) from within the series. When I did that I found that the table was cluttered with overlapping periods that occurred just prior to and after the coldest 30 days. To do...
Hot summers in Central England
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 I have extracted from the daily Central England Temperature [CET] series maintained by the Met Office that helps put things into perspective (figure 1). I would normally not display temperature to the nearest hundredth of a degree, but it is useful when doing comparisons using ranking. As you can see this summers heat wave ranked only 21st in a list where any overlapping periods...