Catastrophising Summer Weather To Perpetuate The Climate Scam
The Met Office was quick to claim June 2023 was the ‘hottest on record’ even before the month had ended!
It said:
June 2023 is on track to be the hottest June on record in a series which goes back to 1884.
While the forecast for the next few days shows an unsettled picture with temperatures closer to average, this won’t be enough to prevent June 2023 being provisionally the UK’s hottest June on record, beating the previous record set in 1940, as well as June 1976 (part of the well-known summer of 1976), which is currently the second warmest June on record.
“Meteorologically, June started with high pressure over the UK bringing often settled and dry conditions with plenty of sunshine. Once that high pressure subsided, warm, humid air took charge over the UK, with 32.2C the highest temperature recorded so far this month and high temperatures for the vast majority of the UK.
Climate change increases the frequency of hotter, drier summer weather and the chances of record-breaking high temperatures for the UK.”
Mike continued: “While the UK has always had periods of warm weather, what climate change does is increase the frequency and intensity of these warm weather events, increasing the likelihood of high temperature records being broken.”
Why is the Met Office so obsessed with calendar months? They have no statistical significance as such, as weather does not neatly compartmentalise itself in this way. They have no more significance than any other 4-week period.
A more telling statistic would be a rolling 4-week average. Calendar months make good news stories of course, but the Met Office is supposed to be a reputable scientific organisation, not a purveyor of propaganda.
The comparison with 1976 is also rather disingenuous.
As the CET daily temperature record below shows, the heatwave in 1976 really only got going in the last week of the month, but then carried on till mid July.
This year’s heatwave has already ended, and weather forecasts suggest near average temperatures for the next week or so. Moreover the intensity of the heat in 1976 was much greater.
The highest daily maximum last month was 28.6C, whereas in June 1976 the top temperature was 30.3C; there were also 6 days above 28.6C in June 1976 alone, not to mention eight further days in July.
Taking the 1976 heatwave as a whole, it was clearly much longer and intense than this year’s.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/download.html
The claim that this is somehow linked to ‘climate change’ is also dishonest. The cause of the warm weather last month was the amount of sunshine, with the month being the sunniest since 1957.
As the Met Office themselves admit, the month started with high pressure, and even during the humid spell the weather remained sunny.
And while the UK was basking under high pressure, Greenland was stuck throughout the month with low pressure, which brought snow and lots of it.
As a result, the melt season has still barely got going, and the ice cap has grown by 100 gigatonnes during the month when it should normally be losing ice.
Is that also due to global warming, Met Office?
http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/
The Met Office also state:
June 2023 is on track to be the hottest June on record in a series which goes back to 1884.
What they omitted to mention is that they also have the Central England Temperature Record, which goes back to 1659; and according to this June 2023 was a long way from being the hottest.
It ranks only 5th, behind 1676, 1822, 1826 and 1846, which hardly supports their assertions about global warming, and it is frankly deceitful for them not to mention this.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/meantemp_monthly_totals.txt
The Met Office’s press release is all of course part of a very well organised conspiracy to catastrophise summer weather.
The Met Office are at the forefront, with the media in full support.
Think about all of the silly Heat Alerts we are given nowadays, and how weather maps that used to have sun symbols to denote hot weather are now painted in lurid reds.
Meanwhile the rest of us are happy to just bask in the sun!
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Editor’s note: John Dee’s article published yesterday completely refutes the Met Office claim. The Met Office used to define a heatwave as seven consecutive days of above average temperatures for the time of year. A few years ago they changed it to three consecutive days, thereby allowing them to claim heatwaves are getting more frequent. This video from Tony Heller illustrates how NASA is scamming the public –
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Alan
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Excellent comment that the weather does not compartmentalise itself by month, nor is the world weather determined by what happens in the UK. Whilst we might have been having a hot June, Antarctica might be having a very cold June. What do they do, average it all out to a meaningless average temperature that has no physical significance.
I blame the education systems for promoting climate alarmism rather than rational thinking about the interpretation of the temperatures in one location.
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paula
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it’s summer, get real.
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Dr. Holly Priestley
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We are in Phoenix which is very hot (11 days of 110 degree weather or higher) and no change in sight. However, June was cooler than usual.
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Andy Rowlands
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In England, June was a fair bit warmer than usual, and so far July has been considerably cooler than usual. Up to ten degrees cooler than usual on some days.
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