Chilly ‘Junuary’ in fact had more sunshine than average for the time of year, the Met Office has claimed. The Telegraph has more.
June was marked by its relatively cool start, with temperatures 2°C below average for the time of year during its first two weeks. But sunshine hours were up 12% in England and 4% for the U.K. compared with the average June.
Despite the cooler start to the month, heatwave temperatures in the last two weeks pushed overall June temperatures up to only 0.4°C below the long-term average.
Temperatures in the first two weeks of June were below average because of cold Arctic air being blown across the U.K. by northerly winds, a Met Office spokesperson said.
Could there be anything unreliable about the latest surprising claims? The Telegraph suggests there might be:
The Met Office measures sunshine using either the Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder, invented in the 19th century, or modern sunshine sensors.
The Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder, which is being phased out, uses a glass sphere to focus the sun’s direct radiation on a graduated card. The Met Office says the method can significantly overestimate sunshine duration on cloudy days. Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorders are still in use at many of the 140 manual climate stations [out of around 400 total stations] it operates.
It comes after controversy last month when the Met Office claimed damp and chilly May was the “warmest on record”.
Who are you going to believe, the Met Office or your own lying eyes?
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Perhaps the MetOffice could turn a tidy profit recommending the places where their idyllic warm and sunny weather occurs. It’s certainly not in evidence in my neck of the woods.
FWIW our solar panels last month generated less than last year, but were 2nd highest of the 5 years we have had them, only marginally ahead of 2022.
At what point will it be acceptable to totally acknowledge the met office is bought and paid for? Until the met office begins to be honest with the public, I suggest ignoring them, stop giving them a minute of space or time on the daily sceptic.
chem trails, weather manipulation, Geoengineering are alive and well and destroying our lovely planet. GeoengineeringWatch.net
Well up here in North Wales, we had the wood burners going every evening in June, bar 4. Yesterday, 2 July, the temperature was a damp and dull 11 degrees, so I lit the fire again in the sitting room.
Don’t tell me it’s been warm and sunny, the evidence is to the contrary.
The weather has certainly changed, 15 years ago we’d have snow, feet deep, every year, the winters are warmer and wetter. In the summer, the wind was predominantly west or south-westerly, now we frequently have north, or north-westerly winds in spring and summer.
The weather has changed, but I don’t blame this on anthropogenic climate change.
They’re gas-lighting the public. Because they think they can get away with it ….. and they’re probably right.
Just try sitting in your garden without a coat and look up!
I can clearly remember about 60 separate Junes and I can tell you, the latest was pretty bloody miserable…comparatively. (And thats in SW England).
Who needs the Met office’s mendacious propaganda.
Best year ever. Just like they told you for the last forty years that it was the richest year ever. Shop until you drop. Just keep working in you minimum wage job and then by magic it will all get better. Sorry sunshine reality is somewhat different. Just carry on with what you’re doing and seal your fate. Think about how the rest of the world sees you.
I take a darker view of these utterances. Obviously this has been the worst year in living memory. I spoke to people in their eighties who said so in terms of the weather. They are saying not only will we make your climate utterly miserable and depressing but then we will rub your noses in it by telling you that it has been the most clement year ever and you might have nagging doubts but in the end you ignorant saps will concur because we have robbed you of self-belief.
Guess what? It is called Natural Variability. Then ofcourse because climate in the UK is so unbelievably variable you can tell people virtually anything and they will believe it, because they will have come across drought, flood, high temperature, low temperature, hot when it should be cold and cold when it should be hot many many times
How many people have we heard say “I remember when the tar used to melt on the roads in reference to a hot summer from their youth? Or how many have we heard say “You just don’t get snow anymore like we used to” in reference to when they recall sliding about on a sledge in the 60’s? I myself can remember 1995 when it was blue skies all the way from April to September and I got so accustomed to the sunny days that I was getting up each morning and putting on my shorts, and my legs had the kind of suntan I now only get by going to Tenerife. (Very popular with the ladies by the way).
——When it comes to climate you have to look over very long periods of time, not just back to when you were 25.… Read more »
I just tune out if the Met office is involved.
I think the warmist loons are running out of steam.
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Incidentally, how does a bunch of charlatans, who are in control of temperature gauges that would be ridiculed in a Hospitality environment, and are rated useless in the temperature business for weather, measure the entire UK to 0.4 degrees?
It’s laughable. The vast majority of their gauges are not fit for purpose, we all know that. Most of you can quote the figures. The ones they rely on most are on runways for heavens sakes.
The Met Office has not yet published the stats for June yet. Normally done via https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/summaries/index, usually at least 4 working days into the next month, so after Friday we’ll see wha the numbers were.
What really matters is the sequence of events over a whole season or two from a gardening, and no doubt farming, point of view.
Put it this way: I didn’t bother planting vegetables this year, it was too cold and would have been pointless. We just bought, today, some established plants in the hope we may get some tomatoes. I expect an England football team result.
I have to say that all my plants, veggies included, seem to be enjoying the cooler weather and are growing very well, with the added bonus I haven’t got to keep watering them. Flowers, too, are lasting longer without hot sun stressing them out. However, I am in the west country. You may be up north of course.
Yeah, Yorkshire. I get what you are saying about flowers, we’ve had the same. The issue with veg like Tomatoes is no sun = they don’t ripen. We had that problem last year.
Green tomatoes are very tasty, especially fried. With bacon 🥓
It’s July 2nd, 2024. Most of the day I have had a sweatshirt on. My wife put the central heating on. I fully expect to be told by these arseholes that I was sweating my cobs off all month and on the verge of dehydration.
What is it with them? Is falsifying the data not enough and they have to attempt to insult the eminently more intelligent as well?
Some jumped (non-jumpered) up wally in an office will tell me in August that I cannot see the sky, feel the wind, feel the cold. I’m the prat for part paying his fucking bills every month.
Most of us would be sacked if we lied; these lot get paid bonuses for doing so!
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Do these dipshits not realise windows are see through?
Even if it is true, is is likely just part of natural variation ie weather is not climate. Really what they should be doing is trying to work out if more energy is getting into the system than is going out. No doubt a hard thing to do.
The energy inflow and energy outflow is net zero (different net zero) otherwise the Earth would have been a fireball billions of years ago.
The issue is the rate of outflow v rate of inflow. Life on Earth is possible only because the rate of outflow is slightly less than inflow, but balances off at around 14C on average for near surface temperatures.
The Climagheddon hoax is that we Humans having learned to have a better life and enjoy ourselves thanks to fossil fuels have now slowed the rate of outflow – causing the seas to boil – and if we don’t control ourselves we stall stop it all together and the Planet will self-immolate.
Sunshine?
Aren’t the Climatrons insistent that the Sun plays no part in climate, and cloud cover has nothing to do with the case?
‘Climatrons’ – nice one. ClimateTard or ClimateNazi is also appropriate.
The 69 hours of sunshine recorded in London in January followed the utterly gloomy 20 hours recorded in December, so a little brightness was in order. Having said that there have been several sunnier Januarys over the last fifty years, particularly in 1984 when 91 hours were recorded. So once more pretty normal winter weather this year!
Prompting the question: solar power? Really?
The pathetic inaccuracy of MET forecasts is bad enough. Their blatant attempts to manufacture “Climate Records” are even more egregious and preposterous.
Their honesty and competence in meteorology, is roughly comparable in value to Rosie West’s expertise in child welfare.
I think it’s an attempt to plant false memories about how “unusual” they want us to believe the weather is so that whenever any sh*t weather hits we’ll reel off the knee-jerk response – “Well, you know, climate change…”. I have a relative who is convinced that back in his youth in the 1970s it was the “good old days when you could rely on the weather”… Really?! When have we EVER been able to rely on the weather on this rainy island?
Of course we can rely on the British weather… to be unreliable.
Why have I just received a load of “draft donor” messages from DS?
What are “draft donor” messages?
Marketing email trying to sell us the benefits of donation, which as I already donate (obviously), then basically a cock-up.
But why did I get three of the same email…OK, they’ve just sent an apology. Obviously a mistake…
Unless Toby didn’t mean to send the apology, of course…
Thanks.
Compulsory organ collections?
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Me to!
This is marvellous news.
Not content with lying about the weather in May the Met Office decide to dig deep in an effort to convince us that June was really scorchio. Sadly, many of my associates are of the intelligent stupid variety but even they are not swallowing the lies that the Met Office are putting out. The more lies that officialdom broadcast the more questioning people are becoming about anything “official.”
It looks like the Met Office is becoming an ally. Keep it up chaps.
I was waiting for the Met Office to claim that this miserably cold June was “the hottest June since the dawn of time”. I wasn’t wholly disappointed.
Hottest June ‘evah.’
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So, let’s imagine they’re correct and June was (only) 0.4C cooler than usual and we got slightly more sunshine than usual. Even then one must ask: Why is this the slightest bit newsworthy? I mean, how sensational! A sunny, almost bang-on average temperature June
And to me it only felt like 0.0000000012C cooler.
Well, so what? December two years ago was sunny. But it certainly wasn’t warm.
BTW, what’s the average error of these measurement devices? Won’t tell, because otherwise … ?
The average error is just enough to support the narrative.
Hosepipe ban next…
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I don’t quite understand the point of this in the context of my comment.
The Met Office stated that sunshine hours were 12% above average in June for England and 4% above average in June. On its own, this mean basically nothing. It needs to be considered in relation to the following two quantities:
A change is only meaningful when it’s larger than the expected measurement error and larger than the expected variability. I don’t know 2) but with regards to 1), 12% above average is bordering measurement error and 4% above average is certainly noise (irrelevant, random fluctuation).
The Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder is relatively crude having been developed in mid to late 1800s. The sunlight focussed on a specific card, if sufficiently strong, burns a line, the length of which is a measure of Solar Duration (SD). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0263224121010575 explains that more recently the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) recommended that the threshold for an Interim Reference sunshine recorder could range from 70 to 280 W/m2 ; then suggested in 1976 that the value was set at 200 W/m2. After examining and compared experimental data from some European countries, they finally decided in 1981 to define SD as “the sum of the times when the direct solar irradiance exceeded 120 W/m2 for a given period”
There are far better photovoltaic cell instruments now than the Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder and these can measure direct solar irradiance received on the ground ( which is where we are) to a relatively high accuracy ( uncertainty of 2% and a long-term stability of +/- 1%/year which could provide data including total direct solar irradiance over a day or month.
There are sites such as Solcast https://solcast.com/live-and-forecast and SolarGIS which use modelling to combine live upper atmosphere satellite data with cloud observations. But models are only as… Read more »
That’s good. If temperatures don’t cooperate, measure hours of sunshine instead.
The climate is changing, it’s for the worse and it’s all our fault.
That’s the conclusion. The data to support the conclusion will always be found.
What’s more if we give up our cars and turn the heating off it can all be put right, no more bad weather. I’ll scrap mine and buy a thicker coat, I’ll be needing that once we have cooled the planet down again.