Met Office Now Claims ‘Extreme’ UK Temps Will Become Permanent
On July 15th, Sky News published an item in which they said the British Met Office had stated the current ‘extreme’ UK temperatures will become permanent
The article states:
The UK is experiencing a period of “historic and unprecedented change” to its climate, and extreme conditions that have caused recent heatwaves are here to stay, says a new report.
There have been three heatwaves already this summer, and temperatures have exceeded 30C on 25 days in 2026.
In its annual “state of the UK climate” report published today, the Met Office says it’s increasingly clear that Britain’s climate has fundamentally changed – and is still “on the move”.
Warmer conditions are being imported into the south, and colder climates in the north are shrinking, with man-made climate change – mostly caused by burning fossil fuels – driving more extreme weather.
Mike Kendon from the Met Office, lead author of the report, said: “We are right now living in a time of historic and unprecedented change, and in terms of temperature, on annual, seasonal, monthly and daily timescales, this evidence shows the climate of the 20th century has now gone.”
Thousands died in May and June heatwave, experts say
In parts of the South East, the hottest day of the year is 4.5C warmer on average than it was just a few decades ago.
And the number of days over 30C has quadrupled in areas such as Greater London.
But while temperatures are up, rainfall is down. England and Wales received less than half the average amount in the spring, and some places had less than a third.
See the Sky article here: sky.com
The report, as is so often the case, confuses “weather” with “climate”, perhaps deliberately.
Yes, this summer has been hot. But it has been hot because of the predominance of sunny weather, driven by high pressure systems. Today’s pressure map is pretty much representative of the last two months:
Last summer was not even as hot as 1976’s in terms of daytime temperatures.
So far this year, there is no evidence that the heatwaves have been any more intense than in 1976 – back then, the hottest day on CET peaked at 33.1C, compared to 32.8C this summer.
This summer so far, there have been eight days on CET over 30C, compared to nine in 1976 by this date.
The daily graph confirms both summers were similarly intense. (It shows how selective our memories are – from the 13th June onwards in 1976, temperatures were well below average!):
The Met Office claim that temperatures have exceeded 30C on 25 days in 2026, is largely derived from their collection of junk stations, and is essentially worthless.
As is the claim that the hottest day of the year is 4.5C warmer on average than it was just a few decades ago.
According to the Central England Temperature Record, the average is about one degree higher than the 1920-50 period. Notably there was a drastic decline after 1950, culminating in the 1980s.
Much of this one degree rise is accounted for by the roll out of platinum resistor thermometers – in Rothamsted, for example, the changeover took place in 2010.
They also claim that “Thousands died in May and June heatwave”. This is based on modelling work by those “experts” at Imperial College, and is unsupported by the actual mortality data.
This irresponsible piece of scaremongering should be withdrawn by the Met Office and an apology issued.
Finally, let’s examine this remarkably fraudulent claim:
But while temperatures are up, rainfall is down. England and Wales received less than half the average amount in the spring, and some places had less than a third.
Yes, it was dry this spring – this was the result of largely anti-cyclonic weather, which also brought sunshine and hot weather! Hardly rocket science.
But the Met Office want us to think this has something to do with a “changing climate”. However, as their own graph shows, rainfall in spring is, if anything, trending upwards, not down.
English weather always swings from one extreme to another, from one year to another. As for “extreme weather”, that the Met Office loves to talk about, tell that to people who have lived through the floods, storms, blizzards and droughts that litter English weather history.
To most of us, this has been a glorious summer so far.
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Jchr12
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“Extreme’ UK Temps Will Become Permanent.”
A welcome statement that in due course will be proven as nonsensical as most of its other claims.
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