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By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness/Robin Guenier
What an totally absurd report! This 12 months has been one of many least excessive on document in England.
Fairly when the Nationwide Belief grew to become local weather specialists, I don’t know!
The Nationwide Belief has warned that excessive climate seen within the UK in 2022 has set a benchmark for what a typical 12 months could possibly be like any further.
The charity stated excessive temperatures, drought and back-to-back storms have created main challenges for nature.
In its annual overview, it described such circumstances because the “new regular”.
It stated this 12 months was a “stark illustration” of the difficulties many UK species may face with out extra motion to deal with local weather change.
The recent summer time and months of low rainfall dried up rivers, fragile chalk streams and ponds, broken crops and pure habitats, and fuelled wildfires that destroyed landscapes, the charity stated.
The Nationwide Belief’s local weather change adviser, Keith Jones, stated there was “no escaping” how difficult this 12 months’s climate had been for nature.
“Drought, excessive temperatures, back-to-back storms, unseasonal warmth, the latest chilly snap and floods means nature, like us, is having to deal with a brand new litany of climate extremes,” he stated.
He added climate specialists have been predicting the longer term would see extra torrential downpours, together with very dry and scorching summers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/information/uk-64107967
The Info
- Three storms in per week – the primary time since, look ahead to it, 2015. How pathetically ridiculous. Simply because the Met Workplace has began giving foolish names to storms doesn’t imply that these items by no means occurred earlier than.
Winter storms are completely regular, and infrequently two or three depressions observe in fast succession. Throughout February as a complete, the rainfall totals in England weren’t unusually excessive, being solely the twentieth highest since 1836:
- Scorching summer time – in response to CET, it was hotter in 1976, 1995 and 2018. It was even hotter in 1826!
- Dry summer time – it was drier in 1869, 1887, 1976, 1983 and 1995: there isn’t a development to summers changing into drier:
- Autumn was gentle, the overall reverse of any sincere individual’s definition of utmost.
- Chilly climate in December! They’re actually are scarping the underside of the barrel now, making an attempt to faux that chilly winters will now be the norm.
For the document, the December CET at present stands at 2.7C. All through the CET document, December imply temperatures have ranged from –0.8C to + 9.6C.
A median temperature of two.7C is nothing out of the unusual in any respect.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/information/meantemp_monthly_totals.txt
Lastly let’s problem this concept that heat climate is excessive however chilly shouldn’t be, and that there’s something new about giant swings in temperature from winter to summer time. The chart under plots the temperature between winter and summer time every year on CET:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/information/meantemp_seasonal_totals.txt
This 12 months the distinction was 11.4C. The typical for the total document since 1660 is 11.6C.
Sufficient stated I feel!
