FEBRUARY 2, 2022
By Paul Homewood
Although 2022 is still only really getting started, January has been an impressive month in the UK. Some will remember it for its record temperatures, sunshine and negligible rainfall, but for others it’s been almost the opposite, with days of prolonged cloudiness and ending with a stormy duo. serious.
The year started with the UK having the warmest New Year’s Day on record as St James’s Park in central London reached 16.3C. The previous New Year’s Day record was set in 1916, when it reached 15.6 degrees Celsius in Bude, Cornwall.
The warm air from the Azores has brought unusually mild weather.
The Met Office has also confirmed this is the sunniest January on record for Britain with a total of 80.7 hours, beating the previous record of 77.5 in 1959. It was also the second sunniest month. three in the record for the UK, with 1959 still in the top spot on the spot with 69.7 hours.
Rainfall is also lacking in some locations. Both East Anglia and the area covering the east and north-east of England finished with the fifth driest January record at 16.4mm and 23.8mm respectively.
Total rainfall in England and Wales as of January 29 reached 34mm, which is less than 40% of average. While it doesn’t even break into the top 20 record-wise, it has a long way to go to beat the 1766 low of 4.4mm.
With the recent downpour in Scotland, that number is now more than 50% but not very much.
Destructive storms Malik and Corrie brought gusts in excess of 90mph and a very bad end to the month. Two people died in Staffordshire and Aberdeen and thousands houses in Scotland and England without electricity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/60216565
For most ordinary people, extreme January weather means freezing cold, six feet of snow, storms and flooding. But not the quacks at the BBC, who think a little sunshine is somehow believable.
They start by talking about record-breaking temperatures, which is completely misleading.
Yes, it is true that the warmest New Year’s Day on record was at 16.3C, (61.3F) but that is pointless, as it is only one day out of 31.
The UK’s record temperature in January was 18.3C, much higher than this year’s “record”, and was set in three separate years, 1958, 1971 and 2003. Of course there will be many Other years have higher temperatures than this year. January 1916 was actually the warmest on record, 1.6 degrees Celsius warmer than this year, and the temperature hit 63 degrees Celsius on the 6th:
In those days, however, the Met Office didn’t try to sell its global warming scam, so it’s no exaggeration that we get today about “record breaking and extreme weather“. Instead, their report is a matter of fact, as with the sunniest January on record in 1959:
Rainfall is also not unusually low as the BBC implies. Across the UK, it was just the driest January 13, with more than twice as much rain as January 1997.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/datasets/Rainfall/date/UK.txt
All of this will no doubt be blamed on climate change, when the Met Office publishes its annual nonsense book “Britain’s Wild Weather” later this year.
Although they have repeatedly stated that British winters are getting wetter because of climate change!
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