Cooling Trend Continues In England

By Paul Homewood

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html

So far this year, the CET is running 0.05C below the 1961-90 average. More significantly it is about 0.6C below the 1981-2010 baseline, which was warmer.

A colder than normal November means that this year is almost certain to be colder than last year, which itself was the second coldest year since 1996. (December would need to be about 3C warmer than normal, for this year to rank above 2012).

Assuming average temperatures in December, (and the Met Office are forecasting colder than normal), the year will finish at 9.45C, meaning that three of the last four years have been the coldest since 1996.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html

The 5-Year running average has been in sharp decline since 2007, and is now provisionally the lowest since 1990.