The Met Office is claiming that this year is the first time temperatures of 35°C and higher have been recorded on six days. But the claims are a reflection of poorly sited weather stations, not climate change.
For the last year or so, the Daily Sceptic has been warning about the increasing reliance of the Met Office on junk weather stations, which are so poorly sited that they can overestimate real temperatures by as much as five degrees. At the latest count, 88% of the Met Office's 400 sites fall into this category.
Siting problems can include proximity to artificial heat sources, such as airport runways, roads, car parks, solar panels, buildings and traffic. Weather stations are also totally inappropriate in sun traps, such as in gardens surrounded by hedges and trees and walled gardens; the latter, of course, are purposely designed to create a warmer micro-climate.
Classifications are made according to World Meteorological Organisation standards. Class 1 sites are pristine, but temperatures at Class 3, 4 and 5 ones can be 1°C, 2°C and 5°C too high respectively.
Of the six days over 35°C claimed by the Met Office, all were topped by readings at junk or near junk sites.
The most recent was last Friday, when 35.2°C was recorded at Coton-in-the-Elms, a sleepy village in Derbyshire. Only one slight problem though: the thermometer is in a small enclosure surrounded on all sides by hedges and trees. The
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Well that’s easy to answer. The more they exaggerate the more they can justify the next zero bollocks!
The big question is why a scientific organisation responsible for prediction of weather should have been captured by climate catastrophists. I am impressed by accurate forecasts but shocked by these fake weather record claims. Is it simply a cry for attention or a plea for more funds?
Simply read your own thermometer. Stop depending on the booth and paid for gov’t agency, the met office. We already know they are short on the truth regarding “climate change”.
On July 12 Paul Homewood posted a list of the Met Office Class 1 sites. In the following comments this lest was pretty much torn to shreds leaving virtually none. So they are worse than even we think they are.
My old secondary school, which is now the epitome of wokeness, put a remote reading weather station on top of the school tower. This reports in (Fahrenheit) some nonsensical values. Now known for its broad spectrum of liberal values.
Funnily, it was established to enable missionaries to leave their offspring behind whilst they converted foreigners to the Christian Faith. Probably best to down play that.
Should be called parochial, not global warming, especially as it is a belief of the Church of Woke.
What’s made me chuckle this year is listening to people that won’t leave the house because they’ve been frightened out of their wits by the panic messaging, and asking them where they’re going on holiday this year – leads to some hilarious conversations.
And worrying isn’t it that these people are allowed to vote in our elections.
Not to mention that the new temperature “gauges” now record spikes which given that many records are at RAF stations and airports are probably jet breath. They should be treated as outliers as once they were
Scientific fraud is bad enough.
Taxpayer funded scientific fraud is a disgrace
Could the Met Office be taken to court for producing erroneous, negligent, deliberately untrue, misleading …. call it what you will – figures that have impacted the nations economy, the electorates finances and the nations industries?
‘The Accountability Deficit’ ………..
Could the Met Office be a world leader of the climate doom mongers if it didn’t manufacture record temperatures for its database?
There’s hope the climate scam is in its end game. The public mood is changing and they are beginning to question the whole narrative.
https://open.substack.com/pub/corbettreport/p/the-stunning-collapse-of-the-climate?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=egcno
Take a look at the time lines between heatwave years. The current wave is 50yrs from the comparable last heatwave in 1976. Note the proximity of the years prior to that.
*Via AI* :
Take note of the time lines.
The last comparably famous UK-wide heatwave before the summer of 1976, the answer is generally 1959. Actually – take note for the frequencies – 2026 was the longest gap at 50yrs.
The notable sequence is:
1959 – A prolonged hot spell in late June and early July, with temperatures reaching around 34.4°C (94°F). It was widely reported at the time and is often regarded as the most significant heatwave before 1976. 1957 – An exceptionally sunny June with temperatures also reaching about 34.4°C in places, though it was shorter-lived than 1959. 1947 – A very hot summer following the severe winter of 1946–47, with temperatures exceeding 33°C in parts of England. It is remembered more for its contrast with the preceding winter than for a prolonged drought. 1933 and 1932 – Both saw temperatures around 34–36°C in southern England, but these heatwaves were relatively brief. 1911 – The benchmark heatwave before the mid-20th century. It produced the UK’s highest temperature… Read more »
There is a known 60 year cycle (amongst many others, from 11 to 100,000 years.
At the start of the last century there was a temp rise very similar to that at the end opf the last century, which prompted the “Help we’re all going to die nonsense”
I would be more impressed if we saw consistently high temperatures in the same place each time, or across a large area, or for more than a brief period.
Instead we have high temperatures popping up all over the country, we lack corroboration from neighbouring areas or for a duration of seconds or minutes. These are hardly signs of a global phenomenon.
Seeing as net zero justifies interference with every aspect of our lives and the little hitlers just love controlling us and stealing our money for it, the scam can’t be allowed to die at any cost.
Similar to human sacrifice in Mayan culture, it was often rolled out when the weather wasn’t behaving and was done to appease the populace who would instead turn on the rulers without the weather controlling killings.
Wasn’t that the Aztec, not the Mayan?
Not according to the sites i visited in the Yucatan.
They had two methods, one was drugging the victim into euphoria and cutting them open, the other was drugging them and pushing them into a Cenote where they drowned.