Three jet storms land next to thermometers as UK ‘record’ temperature of 40.3°C is recorded • Watts Up With That?

From Daily Skepticism

VIA CHRIS MORRISON AND IAN RONS

At least three Typhoon fighters landed at RAF Coningsby around the time when the UK’s short temperature record was announced at 15:12 on 19 July last year from a centered measuring instrument. runway. At Freedom of Information request, daily skepticism partially retrieved the logs of four pilots flying from the base that afternoon, casting considerable doubt on the record that has caused a stir around the world.

The pilot log recorded three of the four Typhoons landing at 15:10, 15:15 and 15:15. However, since these logs always round the time to the nearest five minutes, we can interpret this to mean that the three jets landed at the latest between 15:07:30 and 15:00. :17:30. But pilots want to get as many flight hours as possible, so landing at 15:12:30 will be recorded as 15:15 and not 15:10 and there is always a gap.

In fact, it’s likely that the three jets did indeed land in quick succession, rather than over a period of several minutes. Many videos are available online showing activities at Coningsby, with storms flying (and landing) close together, and very recent videotapes shows three jets landing within 30 seconds. The lead jet of the three landings on 19 July was the ZJ914 – the RAF’s main show aircraft – which showed the others were experienced pilots who may have landed in formation. near the. In the context of the logbook, this indicates that the three planes landed together at a time very close to the record time set at 15:12, and possibly a little earlier.

At 15:10, the temperature suddenly spiked 0.6°C, hitting a record of 40.3°C at 15:12. Within 60 seconds, the record temperature dropped back to 0.6°C. At the time, the Met Office stated that Verification profiling is a “rigorous process” and all data is correct.

The daily skepticism published several papers on the Coningsby incident and the Met Office’s general surface temperature recording. Last November, we asked the Meteorological Office whether their “rigorous process” of validating a 40.3°C record ruled out all non-climate causes such as jet operating near instrumentation or not, as RAF Coningsby is the central main jet pilot training agency and home to two Typhoon squadrons. We did not receive a reply. Earlier, Lincolnshire live It has been reported that the increase in temperature may be due to the breaking of a thin cloud. Last November, daily skepticism publish one satellite image showing cloudless skies at 15:00 on 19 July across London and most of eastern England.

In light of our latest revelations, it’s time for the Met Office to issue a statement on their claimed record at RAF Coningsby. It should retract it, or provide compelling evidence as to why the record should be withheld. If it doesn’t take public action, it risks the ‘record’ becoming a national joke.

Last year was a warm year in the UK and July 19 was certainly a very hot day, although the minor heatwave dissipated at 22:00, with rain in London and a 20°C drop in temperatures. Five locations in the UK claim temperatures above 40°C, but all have problems with non-climate temperatures.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) classifies weather stations and gives lower classifications to those surrounded by runways and buildings. ONE interesting article in the blog climate skepticism looked at five UK 40°C locations and found problems in all of them. According to the WMO, the classification established for Coningsby shows a temperature error margin of up to 1°C. Second place at St. James of London is placed next to a metal road, indicating an uncertainty of 2°C. Heathrow and Northolt are busy London airports with similar problems as Coningsby. The last site in Kew Gardens is a bit better, but it’s near one of the largest tropical greenhouses in the world, and gusts of wind through the vast glass structure can mess up surrounding measurements.

For the purpose of taking temperature measurements to build a picture of long-term climate change, there are some places that are less suitable than airport runways. However, all airports measure temperature for operational purposes, and data is easily available from multiple locations embedded in both national and international data sets. In the UK, the Met Office is fully registered with the ‘climate crisis’ story. One-off weather events and measurements provided by the Met Office to the mainstream media are unquestionable, and this helps fuel the alarm about the cause of the collectivist Net Zero agenda. body. The Met Office is especially busy during the summer months, which seem to have decided to ruin what was once considered normal summer weather. Three cool days of 25°C on the Cornish Riviera are now known as ‘heatwaves’, while the national weather map turns blood red as temperatures soar into the 20s. On the scale Globally, the Bureau of Meteorology has retroactively added more than 30% of warming over the past 20 years, removing the apparent 2000-2012 pause still seen in satellite data.

At the time the Coningsby record was announced, Dr Mark McCarthy from the Met Office said Lincolnshire live that in an environment unaffected by human-caused climate change, “temperatures in the UK are unlikely to reach 40°C”. There’s no way McCarthy could have known this since it was just an opinion, or more precisely, an opinion supported by computer models. There isn’t a single scientific paper that can conclusively substantiate that claim.

If anything, it seems likely that much of the claimed urban heat should be eliminated rather than increased. IN recent breakout Working, two American scientists – Dr. Roy Spencer and Professor John Christy – at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, set out to isolate the impact of urbanization on temperature measurements. Over the past 50 years, it has been discovered that warming may have been exaggerated by as much as 50% across the eastern United States. Interestingly, the greatest exaggeration was found at airports. At Orlando International Airport in Florida, local data shows a global temperature increase of 0.3°C per decade, which drops to just 0.07°C when adjusted for urban temperatures. town.