After three months of apocalyptic media stories, flood warnings and amber alerts, you would be excused for thinking we have just had the wettest winter in the UK since Noah slipped anchor. Even now the Met Office is describing it as “among the wettest on record”.
But the Met Office numbers tell a different story. In reality, it turns out to have been no different to many other winters in the past.
Over the country as a whole, it was only the 20th wettest on record since 1836. As always, some parts have been wetter than others.
Weeks on end of bitter, polar air over much of the US pushed the jetstream far south of its usual track, while at the same time firing it up. As a result, storms have homed in on the southern half of Britain rather than further north. But even then, no region broke any rainfall records, nor even came close.
Desperate to keep up the alarm however, the Met Office has decided that the West Midlands, Cornwall and Leicestershire all experienced their wettest winter since records began in 1837. There’s only one problem here – there are no current stations in any of these regions which have data as far back as 1837, or even the 19th century for that matter. In Leicestershire, for example, there is just one official weather station: Market Bosworth, which has only been open since 2002! There are no data at all to support the Met Office's assertions, which only
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Whilst I’m convinced the Met Office are a bunch of liars, I’m not very convinced by these graphs. It does look to me that it’s getting a bit wetter. Nothing mega. But I don’t read what the author does. Though I agree wholeheartedly with the comment that it is “just weather”. Whatever – reaction is all exaggerated by new housing on flood plains, and the refusal to allow dredging of rivers which always used to happen over millennia, to keep from flooding. Now they’re so silted up the water has to go somewhere.
Explicit in the phrase: “among the wettest on record” is unusually wet Winters happen periodically, consistent with “climate” being an average of meteorological phenomena, which means there are times when there will be conditions further away from the average, even sometimes at the extremes.
The Met Office are unstoppable.
We all remember our Grans and the next door neighbours say things like “Well what is it going to be today”, or “You get all seasons in the one day” or “well it’s dry, that’s the main thing”
They were ofcourse referring to the main topic of conversation when people met in the street—-THE WEATHER. —-The only reason it was the main topic was because it was always different from day to day and you never knew, and still don’t know what you are going to get in this country. It was like that then and it is still like that now. —-It is called NATURAL VARIABILITY, and is the reason these days why people can be easily persuaded that their is a “climate crisis”, or as my sister in law keeps telling me “The weather is all messed up”——-Eh actually no it isn’t. There is nothing unusual about current climate, not in the UK and not anywhere else. —–People are being manipulated and they still don’t know why.
We understand that Andrew MW may face charges of Misconduct in Public Office. If he ated that way he should be charged. So too should the management and senior staff at the Met Office who routinely seek to mioslead the public over weather and climate.
We have heard allegation that Andrew MW charged costs to the public purse which were not rightfully incurred on our behalf. The losses might amount to tens of thousands of pounds, it is said. The Met Office and others who falsify the data would be responsible for many billions, maybe trillions of pounds of wasted costs.
Some parts of the country have had an unusually wet winter. South Somerset / North Dorset was deluged for weeks with flood water closing roads and making lanes impassable.
I’m sure, across the whole country it wasn’t an unusually wet winter, but down here in rural Dorset it most definitely was.
I wonder what is happening at the met office? Is it political interference? Is it academic indoctrination and the weather types coming through only know one answer? Funding? How can the answer always be so biased?
Shared thoughts, beliefs and political energy providing a collective worldview. Not necessarily underpinned by facts which is why the Met Office, which is meant to be part of ‘science’, is so disappointing.
But in general people respond to perceived patterns, create an explanation, and make that collective explanation ‘real’. See egregore, archetype, meme, or religious and political beliefs. A common factor is how difficult it is to undo ingrained beliefs and consequential expectations.
Exactly. It’s not science at all. At times, its like a creative process, not a factual one!
But has it really been “part of science”? It’s political role has been to supply a service for defence (and war), with science being one of the tools available. Maybe it has morphed into another function, without properly explaining why.
I’m thinking, income and, ‘promotion prospects.’
Convenient religion. Warming. Boiling. Changing. Raining. Not Raining. “Hey it rained too much over here! Climate Change!!”. “Lo, behold, due to ‘climate change’ it did not rain enough over there! Climate Change!” Wow, what a ‘science’.
Conditions for wet weather we learnt in year 9 include; moisture, clouds, atmospheric temps, local conditions, regional conditions, precpitation processes, convection systems we don’t understand. Zero to do with ‘carbon’.
What a joke these idiots are. Another Brain dead cult.
And now following the News that retreating glaciers are “evidence of climate change”, a recent surge of advancing glaciers is “evidence of climate change”.
Heads I win, tails you lose.
It’s science Jim, but not as we know it.
Brain dead cult… Net Zombie?