The UK Has NOT Had ‘Unprecedented’ Summer Heat
After months of being told how unprecedented this summer has been, it turns out it was barely any hotter than 1976 in terms of daytime temperatures – just 0.3C warmer, to be precise, which is an insignificant amount, given the Met Office’s shoddy dataset
At least that much can be explained by the switch to Platinum Resistance thermometers, which have been estimated to add a full degree to readings compared to old style ones.
Significantly, no monthly records were broken this summer. Even July, which was the hottest of the three months, was 0.7C cooler than in 2006.
June and August were also hotter in 1940 and 1947 respectively.
The real story was not global-warming driven extreme heat, as the Met Office would like you to believe. The summer was notable for the persistence of sunny, warm weather.
Source: metoffice.gov.uk
The summers of 1976 and 2026 were comparable in terms of the number of days over 30C and in the 25C to 30C band.
The big difference though was that there almost double the number of days this year between 20C and 25C. We don’t tend to remember that there was a colder than average period in the second half of July in 1976!
The Met Office claims that:
The summer of 2026 has been remarkable and is an example of the extremes we can expect to see more frequently as a consequence of human induced climate change. In a climate unaffected by human emissions of greenhouse gases, a summer like this would be exceptionally unlikely – one in over 1,000 years
This is absurd, not least because we know that the British climate was warmer in the Medieval Warm Period, which puts their “1000 year” claim into perspective.
More to the point, there is no evidence of “human-induced” anything. What has made this summer so hot, as always, has been the unusual amount of sunshine, brought by jet-stream related high pressure systems, which have dominated the summer.
In England, only the summer of 1976 was as sunny. The rest of that year, both before and after the eight-week heatwave, was cooler and wetter than usual.
The correlation between sunshine and temperatures in summer is both indisputable and very strong – a coefficient of over 0.80 is regarded as very strong.
Source: metoffice.gov.uk
When allowance is made for the Met Office’s use of junk stations and the use of PRTs, this summer has not been statistically hotter than several others in the last century or so, such as 1911, 1933 and 1947.
Much more important than the temperature statistics though is rainfall.
We have been inundated with stories of ‘climate change’ related drought this summer, but the data shows that dry summers like this one are far more common than alarmists want you to believe.
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