The Department of Odd Climate Statistics down at the Met Office in deepest darkest Devon have struck again! This time they have added up all the regional daily rainfall totals for the third of October 2020 …
The Department of Odd Climate Statistics strikes again! Read More »
The topsy turvy 365 day rainfall accumulations continue with the latest gridded UK daily totals for September 2020 figures from the UKMO. Anomalies across northern and eastern Scotland remain close to 100%, but the values further …
A cold start to the first week of autumn across much of IONA away from the southeast of England, and in sharp contrast following such a warm spell the week before.
Equinoctial galesThe implication contained in this term, which is in fairly wide popular use, that GALES are either more frequent or more severe near the EQUINOXES than at other times, is not supported by observations. In …
This has got to be one of the worst examples of a map of climate statistics that you will ever see. It attempts to show every flash of lightning that occurred during June 2020, and believe …
Don’t think for one second that the heatwave of the last week can compare to the one that occurred in the last week of June and the first week of July 1976, because it doesn’t. Forget …
A simple comparison of the heatwaves of August 2020 and June-July 1976 Read More »
On the same floor plate and right next door to the Climate Attribution team at the Met Office down in Exeter, is the Department for Odd Climate Statistics. The mantra of the ‘Docs’ team (as they …
July 2020 was a generally cool, cloudy and rather wet affair across many central and western parts of the UK. Temperatures were closer to average across the southeast as was sunshine, although rainfall again was below …
Please don’t adjust your monitor settings it’s only me trying to overlay one thermograph from Heathrow on top of another to try and gauge the hourly increase of temperature that went on today. This years temperature …
Today’s 37.8°C at Heathrow makes it the third hottest day on record in UK Read More »
In the last five years estimates of global temp have been in a bit of a hiatus with temperatures still recovering from a decline since the record warm year of 2016. In fact if you look …
Recent Global Temperatures – more lies, damn lies and statistics Read More »
All the talk of a drought recently seem to have evaporated at least for the moment after the thundery rain of last month pepped up the figures. Talk of a drought in what has been a …
Here are the anomalies for the three basic weather elements in June 2020 using the new updated map of the UK with Shetland no longer in a box. Rather surprisingly, Scotland had the highest mean temperature …
I did wonder why I had to make changes to one of my software applications and realised that it was because the UKMO had changed the map that they use to draw their climate data on, …
Displaying Shetland in a box on maps is now banned by law on official documents Read More »
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 completely missed that Australia saw their coldest May nationally since 2011. Here’s what their Bureau of Meteorology had to say about it:- Australia in May 2020 In brief Nationally, May was cooler than average for …
There’s a lot of media activity about the recent high temperature in Siberia at the moment. It looks like a record maximum temperature has been set at Verkhoyansk of 38.0°C. A temperature of 38°C would be …
I have just written some code to examine the seasonal changes of precipitation across the UK using the gridded data series from the UKMO which now extends back to 1862. I did it because I was …
Extraordinary, astounding, absolutely staggering, quite remarkable and uprecedented Read More »
Yes, May 2020 was an exceptionally sunny month with anomalies 42% higher than the LTA across the whole of the UK. Remarkably it was also the sunniest calendar month since gridded data back to 1929 as …
Four stations have now recorded over 300 hours of sunshine so far in May 2020 across IONA, with another one on the cards for today. Still on top is Hurn with 310.1 hours up until yesterday. …
The sunshine total so far this month is 295.5 hours at Hurn, aka Bournemouth airport, is fast closing in on the May record of 317.4 hours set in 1989. So can it close the gap of …
It’s certainly been a dry this spring across many places, and since the middle of March southern England hasn’t seen much in the way of rainfall, but if you take a closer look at bigger picture …
There is an outside chance that new regional records will be broken for sunshine in May across some southern parts of the UK. It’s a tall order because May 1989 was an exceptionally sunny month in …
May 1896 still holds the record of being the driest May in four out of the six English regions in the gridded data set from the UKMO which now extends back to 1862. May 2020 at …
