By Paul Homewood
It’s been a summer season of report breaking hype, if little else.
Now we have been listening to for weeks that this summer season has been unprecedented, the way it “proves” world warming, and the way it’s a template for the longer term.
It seems in any case that it was none of these items, and was the truth is no hotter than 1976:
Common imply temperatures have been really beneath these of 2003, 2006 and 2018:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/analysis/local weather/maps-and-data/uk-and-regional-series
Statistically, this summer season tied with 1976. (The Met Workplace have beforehand said that “Normally we’ll solely quote statistics to the closest 0.1C as variations smaller than this might end result from small numerical variations arising from the statistical calculations”.) This summer season completed at 15.72C, whereas 1976 was 15.70C
Summers like 1899, 1911, 1933, 1947 and 1983 have been solely a fraction of a level cooler.
Extra considerably, daytime temperatures this summer season have been considerably beneath 1976. It’s, in fact, daytime temperatures which have dominated tales of the heatwave.
In distinction night time time temperatures are artificially raised by the UHI impact, which isn’t taken into consideration by the Met Workplace.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/analysis/local weather/maps-and-data/uk-and-regional-series
There have in fact additionally been loads of overhyped claims concerning the drought, once more with the intention of persuading the general public that it was brought on by local weather change.
However as we will see beneath, there have been 4 drier summers in England & Wales – 1995 was the driest, adopted so as by 1976, 1869 and 1983:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/analysis/local weather/maps-and-data/uk-and-regional-series
Now we have all the time had scorching and dry summers infrequently in Britain. There isn’t any proof in any respect summers are getting hotter or drier.
