By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness/Robin Guenier
What a completely ridiculous report! This year has been one of the least extreme years on record in the UK.
Quite when the National Trust became a climate expert, I don’t know!
The National Trust has warned that extreme UK weather in 2022 has set a benchmark for what a typical year might look like from now on.
The charity said consecutive high temperatures, droughts and storms created major challenges for nature.
In its annual review, it described such conditions as the “new normal”.
It said this year was a “clear illustration” of the difficulties many species in the UK could face without more action to tackle climate change.
The charity says hot summers and months with little rain have drained fragile rivers, streams and ponds, damaged crops and natural habitats, and fueled fires. The forest destroys the landscape.
Keith Jones, the National Trust’s climate change adviser, said it was “inevitable” how difficult this year’s weather would be for nature.
Drought, high temperatures, consecutive storms, unseasonal heat, recent cold spells and floods mean that nature, like us, is dealing with a wide range of weather conditions, he said. new extremes.
He added weather experts have predicted The future will see more torrential downpours, along with very dry and hot summers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64107967
truth
- Three hurricanes in one week – the first time since, wait, 2015. It’s ridiculous. Just because the Met Office has started giving the storms silly names doesn’t mean these things haven’t happened before.
Winter storms are completely normal and often have two or three low pressures in rapid succession. For the whole of February, total UK rainfall was not unusually high, only the 20th highest since 1836:
- Summer is hot – according to CET, it was hotter in 1976, 1995 and 2018. Even hotter in 1826!
- Dry summers – drier in 1869, 1887, 1976, 1983 and 1995: no tendency for summers to become drier:
- Autumn is gentle, completely contrary to the extreme definition of any honest person.
- Cold weather in December! Now they’re actually draining the bottom of the barrel, trying to pretend that cold winters will now become the norm.
For the record, December CET is currently at 2.7C. Across the CET profile, the average December temperature ranges from -0.8C to +9.6C.
The average temperature of 2.7C is nothing out of the ordinary.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/meantemp_monthly_totals.txt
Finally, challenge this idea that warm weather is extreme but cold is not, and that there is something new about the large temperature swings from winter to summer. The chart below shows the temperatures between winter and summer each year on CET:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/meantemp_seasonal_totals.txt
This year, the difference is 11.4C. The average for the entire record since 1660 is 11.6C.
Suffice it to say I think!
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