Overnight minima and inversion
Interesting overnight minimum temperatures across Scotland.
Category: Temperature
Winter temperature precipitation correlation
If this winter is going to be cold then it’s also likely to be drier than average too.
Summer index 2019
Just how well did summer 2019 compare with previous summers?
The hot day of 25 July 2019
Thursday the 25th of July 2019 gave the UK it’s hottest day on record with 38.7°C being reported at Cambridge.
Circulation in July 2019
The one stand out factor in the MSLP anomaly chart for July 2019 was the much higher than average pressure across central Greenland
Make that the third warmest June on record
A slight disagreement in global temperature anomalies for June 2019 between the GISS and CRUTEM series.
Trends in global warming
A couple of graphs of linear trends for 30 and 50 years in the CRUTEM series.
Circulation in June 2019
The heatwave over parts of France may have caught all the headlines but the centre of the warmth in June lay much further east in Poland and Ukraine.
Quote of the day – Peter Stott
A similarly extreme heatwave 100 years ago would have been 4°C cooler – but would it still have been a heatwave?
Extreme climate event attribution
Are the ‘extreme climate event attribution’ brigade the new ‘thought police’?
The unlikely winners in the UK heatwave
Two unlikely winners in the UK Heatwave that almost never happened, but where are they?
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?