A Cold April In The UK, Now A Cold June

Written by Andy Rowlands on June 14, 2024. Posted in Current News

Most people in the UK won’t have forgotten that April was much colder and wetter than usual, but unsurprisingly the BBC and the Met Office told us April was warmer than usual

Now the media tell us May was the warmest on record, but as usual, do not say which record was being referred to.

For those who didn’t know, there are four temperature records:

1. The satellite record, which goes back to 1979
2. The thermometer record, which in the UK goes back to 1659
3. The ice-core record from Greenland and Antarctica, which goes back 800,000 years and
4. The deep-ocean sediment record, which goes back 600 million years

Now we are halfway through June, and it is cold again, being several degrees cooler than is usual for the time of year. Strong winds and cloud cover are making it feel even colder.

Remember last June’s heatwave? Despite all the shrill pronouncements of impending death by climate, last June’s two-week heatwave was 0.1C warmer than the famous 1976 heatwave, which lasted eight consecutive weeks.

That summer, my father went up to the Elan Valley dams after seeing news reports they were almost dry. He took me with him and I took photographs from inside the dam walls, where normally I would have been under a hundred feet of water.

There were hosepipe bans and water bowsers in the streets.

Nothing like that happened last year.

On Tuesday, The Independant ran a piece about the cold June temperatures. It is not a long article, so I reproduce it in full, interspersed with my own comments:

After the UK experienced the warmest May on record, many across the country will have been dusting off the outdoor barbecues and refreshing their summer wardrobe in anticipation for a further hot spell in June.

However, the first 10 days of June have been cooler than expected, with the mercury down an average two degrees compared expected temperatures for the month so far in southern England, and the outlook will not change for a little while yet.

There’s even a chance of overnight frost in some places on Tuesday night.

Overnight frost in June?? So much for ever-increasing temperatures then.

The winter of 1962-63 was particularly harsh, and the summer of 1963 was cold. My Mom always maintained that on one day in June 1963 it was so cold it snowed. This has been verified by several independant sources.

Dr Robert Thompson, a meteorologist from the University of Reading, said the biggest factor for cooler temperatures in June was the Atlantic jet stream, which is bringing in cold air from Greenland and Iceland. The steam, he said, “wriggles around” to steer in winds from different regions.

He addded that the lower-than-expected temperatures for the start of June is not entirely unusual – and that the warm weather will return to likely give the UK above-average heat this summer.

Above-average heat this summer. Another assumption to pander to the climate alarmists.

With the jet stream – a core of strong winds blowing from west to east – located further south than normal for this time of year, cooler winds from Arctic region were leading to lower temperatures across the UK.

But this will change as the stream eventually moves northwards, with it also bringing higher pressure across England and Wales.

“Yes, at lunchtime you needed a coat, and it is not what you expect from June – but we have got so used to rising temperatures caused by global warming that we expect the months to be warmer than average,” Dr Thompson said.

In your world maybe, not in mine.

To put into perspective, Dr Thompson explained that out of the past 12 months, just three were colder than average in the UK.

This can only be claimed after the data is tampered with to artificially increase the figures.

“It looks like we will return to a more normal position toward the end of this weekend,” said Dr Thompson, who believes temperatures this summer will be above average, with expected periods of droughts and thunderstorms associated with a warmer conditions. “Things are changing with global warming,” he added.

Assumption number two. You can believe whatever you wish, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.

A spokesperson for the Met Office told The Independent that temperatures across the UK for June were between three and four degrees below average. The next week will remain unsettled, they said, before the warm weather will return.

On Tuesday, the Met forecast a bright day, with sunny spells, for many, but rain is expected across northern, central and eastern England in the afternoon, with a cool northerly breeze keeping temperatures below 18 degrees.

On Wednesday, another bright start of the day is expected ahead of sccattered showers across eastern parts of England. Thursday and Friday will also see thundery outbreaks of rain with a cold breeze felt by many.

Ten consecutive weeks of below average temperatures across the UK, largely ignored by the mainstream media, but whatever happens in the rest of the year, you can bet the BBC and the Met Office will say this year was the hottest on record.

They have to perpetuate the climate scam whatever the human cost.

See the Independant article here independent.co.uk

Header image: Evening Standard

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About the author: Andy Rowlands is a university graduate in space science and British Principia Scientific International researcher, writer and editor who co-edited the new climate science book, ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘

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