Serious questions are now being raised about the accuracy of Met Office temperature datasets, following its announcement that the UK has just had the hottest summer on record.
The claim will come as a surprise to anybody who was around in 1976! It is also contradicted by its own, world renowned Central England Temperature series (CET), which still shows the summer of 1976 to be the hottest on record. The CET is very carefully put together using rural weather stations so as to minimise the artificial warming caused by increasing urbanisation, known as the Urban Heat Island effect or UHI.
The CET, of course, only covers central England, but this is not some sort of regional anomaly, because the Met Office’s UK dataset also shows record temperatures this summer in that same part of the country.
Indeed, this anomaly between CET and the Met Office data is even worse than it appears – according to the Met Office, the summer of 1976 does not even appear in the top five hottest.
In stark contrast to the carefully constructed CET, the Met Office dataset is made up largely of junk stations, so poorly sited that temperatures recorded may be as much as five degrees too high. Four out of five stations are officially classed as junk Class 4 and 5, based on official World Meteorological Organisation guidelines, which state that these should not be used for climatological purposes. The Met Office ignore these rules and do just that.
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I might be wrong, but isn’t every summer declared the hottest ever? I’m sure last year’s was to the disbelief of those of us who experienced one of the wettest, coolest!
Time is on our side. Like all scams the truth will eventually come out. They cannot keep this scam up for ever, then all these cowardly ideological climate scientists and Met Office zealots will be out of a job. I for one won’t be sympathetic . I’ll be there to cheer, and shout good riddance.
Every institution that we have produces conjured up BS to keep the gravy train narrative going.
Climate crisis is hogwash.
Make these Met office clowns redundant.
Still 17 days to go until end of summer. We’ve had the central heating on already
What made this summer was the length of it and the lack of rainfall. Almost every day has been dry, bright and sunny. Yesterday was the first day of constant rain we have had since spring or at least my birthday back in mid June. In my entire lifetime the two that stand out are 1976 & 2025. The Met Office not ever having 76 in the top five? Pull the other one, it tintinnabulates!
The Met Office claim about the hottest summer is for MEAN temperature:
“The UK’s mean temperature from 1 June to 31 August stands at 16.10°C, which is 1.51°C above the long-term meteorological average. This surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C, set in 2018, and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top five warmest summers in a series dating back to 1884.”
This article appears to be talking about maximum temperatures.
It certainly seemed to me that there were many uncomfortably warm nights, and I don’t live anywhere near an airport runway, or any other source of urban warming.
In Reading, the weather was unusually dry for extended periods of time but certainly not unusually hot.
As I’ve mentioned previously, in 76 I spent the summer flying in and out of RAF Brize Norton where the surrounding fields were parched beyond recognition. I bought a TR6 in May and parked it top down on our unsheltered driveway. It remained so until late August without so much as a drop of precipitation falling. I can attest to having experienced hotter periods since then, but then I have lived in Spain for the last 25 years. (Does that count?)
My understanding is that the assessment of this summer’s warmth is based on average daily temperatures, rather than daily maxima. Although there were fewer very hot days than in 1976, the nights were milder, and that’s what tipped the balance. The question is: are milder nights in the summer really a problem? I don’t think so.
That’s because the nonsense average temperatures the Met Office calculated (temperature at noon means nothing for temperature at midnight and vice-versa) happened to fit in with what they wanted to publish. They’d glady use maximum temperatures, average maximum temperatures, minimum temperatures, average minimum temperaturs, median temperatures at noon or whatever else gives the desired figure while ignoing anything which doesn’t.
It was within normal parameters.
I posted a link to the DS article exposing this Met Office scam on their 50 min ‘hottest summer evah’ YT video yesterday.
No surprise when I checked later and the comment was removed.
No.
31st March 1973, my Mum’s photo album shows us sitting around basking at our posh friends’ outdoor pool… in the North east of Scotland.
It’s funny how everybody accepts that we can store heat in storage heaters, large water tanks for solar heating and heat pump systems etc, but react with surprise when someone suggests that the night time temperatures may be affected by some ‘heat island’ phenomenon.
Each new building, road and even the concrete bases of wind turbines further increases the capacity to store day time acquired heat which is released when temperatures drop – exactly the same process as your storage heater.
The thing is like other WOKE mind game scams, the Met telling us its the hottest ever, or the wettest etc, they forget that rather like a bloke in a frock is visibly to the majority not a woman, people go outside, they feel the weather and so they can carryon spouting lies and the people see and feel through it, all they are doing is making themselves irrelevant.
One of my biggest concerns is that uncertainty over the ‘readings’ from weather stations (or their ghosts) means that we don’t know if the computed average is too high or too low.
Now plug those readings, with others, into various models of dubious worth and we don’t know if the computed average is too high or too low.
And yet politicians are prepared to spend £billions of our money on wild schemes that may have little effect – and may not even be necessary.
Put money into maintaining measurements by satellite and in adaptations to changing weather patterns and I expect we will pay far less overall. Although many grifters may be obliged to move onto other concerns…
We are still in summer – until Sept 21rst. Is the past week the hottest evah? 19C and raining where I am.
Delusional.
Maybe 3-4 weeks of 25C or higher temps. Rest entirely normal, or like this week, below normal.
Defund the Met and the BBC.
You can’t even enjoy a reasonably nice summer without the weather fascists-idiots screaming in your face about plant food.
We cannot see the climate from our bedroom windows. What we perceive is simply an impression we might have. The only way to know for sure which year was warmer, or wetter, or colder or drier than other years is to look at data. Unfortunately the data is in the hands of government funded data adjusters and cannot be relied upon. But just because there might be some warming, it does not mean that warming was caused by humans, as we have seen similar periods in the past. But there is now this insistence from government and the scientists that they fund that any warming is caused by human activities. Claims of certainty are made where there is none, and this takes the issue out of the realms of science and into POLITICS. So that we longer need evidence, all that is required is repetition of evidence free claims.
We cannot see the climate from our bedroom windows. What we perceive is simply an impression we might have. The only way to know for sure which year was warmer, or wetter, or colder or drier than other years is to look at data.
If it’s something we cannot experience directly but only derive from unrelated measurements by applying somehow chosen mathematical/ statistical algorithms to them, does what has been derived in this really exist? Or did we just fool ourselves into believing in something despite our own experience to the contrary?
Sounds like a religion.
Regarding collecting data, I was a dairy farmer on top of the Mendips in 1976 and I collected daily measurements. Without going into detail, the last rain was 1st May 1976 and we had no rain until 12th September 1976. Incidentally, we had 77.5 inches of rain recorded from 12th September 1976 until 11th September 1977 which may have been a record in itself
The interesting outcome of this long drought was that the milk yield hardly fell because of the high dry matter of the grass that the cows were eating which satisfied them and led to a radical change in thinking about cow’s nutrition.
I have been around since the 1940s and there has never been a hotter Summer than 1976 but 1975 was close behind..
No.
You beat me to it.
There Is a big problem in the scientific world. I’m hearing more and more that many scientists are so disillusioned with universities to allow academic freedom that they are turning to independents and even promoting their own online studies and opening independent universities. Let’s hope more see the light and stop these woke and destructive policies.
$cientism. Follow the money to get to data fraud aka ‘$cience’.
Scientists are human beings as well and they have mortgages to pay and families to feed. Where issues are politicised like climate change these scientists will find it very difficult to get work or funding if they are not ideologically aligned, and this means that what we end up with isn’t “Science”. It is “Official Science”. —–It also means that the climate change fraud has become the most powerful of scams, not just because of claims it is all true, but because the ability to question it is removed. It has become impossible to operate within institutions and the media if you dare to question any of it. Scientists are now given work, get promoted and funded not based on accuracy but based on how well their work aligns with the Politics. —–The scam operates like this—A problem is identified that cannot be checked or identified by ordinary people. The Political Class then offer a solution to it. But despite all the costs, changes to lifestyles, and lowering of living standards, more control over the populace by technocrats, the supposed solutions deliver absolutely NOTHING except misery and energy poverty. —-Debate gets shut down before it starts, because the scam insists… Read more »