‘Dangerous’ UK temperatures fail to appear. Again.
This is a two-part article. The first part is from yesterday’s Climate Change Dispatch article, the second part is temperatures I recorded in Birmingham UK.
A war over the weather has blown over the UK, with media outlets giving this week’s heatwave urgent, alarming coverage, but government spokesmen are saying to take sensible precautions but enjoy the good weather. [bold, links added]
While the British public has been bombarded with alarmingly red heat maps warning of the seasonal heat, with estimates that some places could reach as high as 40°C (104°F) on Monday, media pundits have turned to the government to take this cue to preach on the importance of fighting climate change.
Yet government spokesmen have so far resisted the bait, it seems, with leaders counseling the British public to take sensible precautions in the sun, but to also enjoy themselves.
Cabinet minister Kit Malthouse was grilled on the heat during an appearance on Sky News on Monday morning, where he was invited to speak on the supposed crisis of hot weather in the summertime.
Doling out the obvious advice, Malthouse told the host: “Be sensible, drink lots of water, stay in the shade. We’ve got a hot 48 hours coming.”
Pressed further on the disaster of a 40°C day, Malthouse advised people again to stay hydrated and take it easy and wished those lucky enough to have the day off work today to enjoy the beach. He told Sky:
[W]e broadly know what to do, and what we’re asking people to do is to take it easy… if you’re lucky enough to be not working today and you’re going to the beach, I know you’ll take lots of suncream and water, an umbrella, all those sorts of things…
[I]t’ll be cooler at the coast than it is in the centre of the country, particularly in the Midlands and in London. We’re telling people they need to take responsibility for themselves…
There has been a lot of alarming commentary in the media over this week’s hot spell — which, it is predicted, could make an all-time heat record for the United Kingdom — and while Malthouse said vulnerable people like very young children and the elderly should be checked on regularly, ultimately “lots of people will go about their lives perfectly normally.”
A particularly lurid news report about the weather has invited very welcome pushback in the newspapers, with The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reporting watchers voicing their displeasure over a doom-laden television report by meteorologist Laura Tobin, who told viewers: “There will be hundreds if not thousands of fatalities due to this heatwave.”
Indeed, Kit Malthouse’s interview with Sky on Monday was accompanied by a weather-watch ticker bar on the screen, which informed viewers in real-time that the hottest place in Britain was at that moment Camborne in Cornwall, positively sweltering at 23°C (73°F) heat.
Malthouse’s comments on Monday followed others given by fellow government spokesman Dominic Raab, who also urged Britons to enjoy the nice weather.
Telling people to employ “common sense” like drinking water, not staying out in direct sunlight in the middle of the day, and wearing sunscreen, the Deputy Prime Minister said: “We ought to enjoy the sunshine and actually we ought to be resilient enough.”
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The forecast for Birmingham in the UK last Friday was 40C for Monday and 39C for Tuesday. Even with the Met Office reducing the number of days defining a heatwave from seven consecutive days to just three consecutive days a few years ago, allowing them to claim ‘extreme weather’ is increasing, two hot days do not qualify.
That’s called summer weather.
The forecast on Saturday had dropped to 39C for both Monday & Tuesday, and by Sunday that forecast had reduced to 38C.
Yesterday Google claimed 37C, later reducing that to 36C. The maximum temperature recorded by me in Birmingham on Monday was 34.6C at 5.24pm.
This morning Google again claimed 37C. This afternoon it changed to 36C. The maximum I recorded was 35.8C at 5.20pm.
I’ve no doubt temperatures approaching 40 could have been recorded in the middle of a big city like London. In fact, I would almost guarrantee the BBC will have a reporter at the weather station at Heathrow Airport, gleefully spouting ‘climate change’ nonsense.
As predicted, the media called 40.2C at Heathrow today, but also as predicted, no mention was made of the siting of the weather station, surrounded by acres of highly reflective concrete and tarmac. Nor was the Urban Heat Island Effect mentioned, which can easily add three or more degrees to the actual air temperature.
If we had a six-week hot period like in 1976 now, the doomsters would be having collective apoplexy.
In years past this was called summer, a word some seem to have forgotten.
Thanks to Richard Thompson for this image.
See Paul Joseph Watson’s humorous take on this here:
Thanks to John O’Sullivan for the video.
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Barry
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Good one Andy,looked at ventusky today about 2pm London time. There was literally only one 40 in London and the rest of the country was struggling to 35. What a total joke our media has become. When I was a child in Saskatchewan we had plenty of days of 100f we would go play in the sprinklers and rest in the shade as many people do that live with these temps all the time. Now all of a sudden we have climate change and a danger of frying with the Bacon if we aren’t careful. It’s all laughable and to think that we are now in a cooling trend not a warming one.
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Andy Rowlands
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Cheers Barry 🙂
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MattH
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Hi Andy and readers.
In New Zealand today we were told the temperature in England had reached 40.5 degrees celsius which was a record high.
English climate scientist Hannah Cloke claimed heat waves are happening more often and more intensely. Cloke appears to be a hydrologist in fact.
.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Cloke
Tony Heller has posted some old newspaper articles on olde English heat waves.
https://realclimatescience.com/
The usual summer high pressure system over the Atlantic ocean is carrying a mass of hot air from the Miami/Cuba area to South East Greenland and then across to England, France, Spain, Portugal.
With the current Earth axial Tilt of around 23.4 degrees but NH summer solstice a month behind us, 15 degrees North is the Earth surface closest to the sun which is where this mid Atlantic airstream heat is being generated.
There is also hot North African air crossing over to Europe. One can presume increased ice melt in south east Greenland.
http://www.bom.gov.au/charts_data/IDY20000/current/mslp-thick/IDY20000.mslp-thick.000.png
Until we have three or more new El Nino events behind us we have little indication whether Earth’s climate temperature is rising, falling or static.
Early signs are that we are likely to enter a third year of La Nina and therefore short term average temperature reduction.
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Andy Rowlands
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Very interesting, thanks Matt.
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Tom
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Here’s the secret why…all those big old rotating windmills are cooling the place down…mystery solved.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Andy,
Were you perhaps a bit hasty with your comment?
Have a good day, Jerry
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Andy Rowlands
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I’ve not seen anything to suggest that.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Andy,
Matt, just wrote: “In New Zealand today we were told the temperature in England had reached 40.5 degrees celsius which was a record high.”
Have a good day, Jerry
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Andy Rowlands
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I can’t comment on what the Aussies were told, but the highest temps according to the BBC were recorded at Heathrow Airport and RAF Coningsby, both of which are surrounded by acres of highly reflective concrete and tarmac. I clearly said my recordings were taken in Birmingham.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Andy,
(https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/gb/birmingham) Max. Temp. (7/19/2022) 99F
From where do you get your ‘official’ temperatures? An airport temperatures are a very common source of ‘official temperatures’.
Have a good day, Jerry
Andy Rowlands
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As I said, from the BBC. They had a reporter at Heathrow airport and she said that was the temperature recorded there.
My own readings come from my digital thermometer.
Artelia
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In the summer, the heat should be from the sun and there should be some coolness in the breeze. The fluffy clouds should not be hanging beneath white skies but blue skies. It should be significantly cooler in the shade than in the sun. When the sun goes down it should be significantly cooler. There should be some dew. Man made weather is what we have been increasingly experiencing, this is weather tampered with by mankind. Companies like Raytheon, are using patented climate engineering systems, chemicals and electrical frequencies, to exacerbate extreme weather. The skies are being sprayed by aircraft.
Solar radiation management, HAARP, cloud seeding….. I am not an EXPERT on this subject, which in the UK EU US is kept under the carpet. When you see bulges underneath the mat, know there are things being kept underneath it.
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