Biased BBC Invents ‘Hottest May On Record’
AFTER the BBC’s ‘environment analyst’ Roger Harrabin went into hysterics about last month’s sunny weather in his piece ‘Climate change: May was sunniest calendar month on record in the UK’, it is appropriate to point out to him that last month was far from being the hottest on record in England:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/download.html
In fact, there have been 47 hotter Mays since 1659. The hottest was 1833, and the five hottest were all pre-1850.
We know, of course, that Harrabin has little interest in facts unless they suit his agenda. But he really should consult the data since he might learn something.
He claims that May 2020 was the sunniest on record in the UK, but sunshine records did not start until 1929. I strongly suspect those scorching Mays in the 19th century were also unusually sunny.
What about spring as a whole? Again, nowhere near a record, tied at 9th warmest with 1952. Spring was also warmer back in 1893:
The spring of 1893 was the driest on record in England. A look at the Met Office monthly weather summaries shows just how similar that spring was to this year’s, other than the fact that there was some rain towards the end of May:
https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/SO_0ae033c1-0ae6-4bde-a493-5851547972e6/
Far from the recent weather in the UK being unprecedented and astounding, or it being a part of a pattern of increasingly extreme weather, as Harrabin’s so-called fellow scientist travelers want us to believe, the spring of 1893 shows just how little England’s climate has changed in the last 127 years.
But you won’t be told that by the BBC.
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Andy Rowlands
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Many people in the UK noticed how cold last October was, yet the BBC claimed it was unusually warm. Looking at the CETR showed it was actually the coldest October since the late 1700s.
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Dev
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Living in a rural location in the UK, it has been very noticeable that the nights are extremely cold for the time of year Toward the end of May I had to defrost my car windows on 2 mornings which I don’t recall ever having to do before in May. For the past 5 yrs I am on average using an extra 1000 liters of fuel oil per year for central heating when compared to 2006-2009.
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Andy Rowlands
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I haven’t noticed that, but I live in the middle of Birmingham, and rural areas are always cooler than cities, the old urban heat island effect.
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Marcel
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If you write an article about the biased BBC inventing the ‘hottest May on record’, it would be nice if you would produce just a single link to where the BBC makes that statement. They do not, they only refer to sunniest.
The Met Office did make the claim, btw. However, they looked not at average temperatures but at maximum temperatures. They do note however, that even when May was hot, that makes up for a mediocre spring.
Seems you are inventing things to contradict.
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tom0mason
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It’s worth repeating
https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_desktop/public/inline-images/BBC.png
The BBC is a propaganda outlet for the deranged Greens and Left-wing politics.
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tom0mason
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And yet again the BBC’s green blob hypes some normal weather!
From https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/bbc-astonished-by-perfectly-usual-arctic-weather/
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