April 2021
By Paul Homewood
Last month was notable for being cold and dry.
Mean minimum temperatures in particular were the lowest since 1922, and the third lowest on record. It was also the fourth driest April:
The April weather eighty years ago was in fact very similar, with mean temperatures 0.2C lower than this year, although it was largely a dull month in contrast to the sunshine we had last month. The first few days saw heavy rainfall and snow, but the rest of the month was very dry:
April 1951 was also cool, with the same mean temperature as 1941, but in contrast was wetter than average, with frequent snow showers. Despite the month as a whole being cold, temperatures hit 79F (26C) in London:
As if to prove that British weather is totally unpredictable, April 1961 was mild and wet. Whilst it was drier than average in N Scotland, parts of S Wales and the South West had the wettest April on record. Indeed April 1961 is still the wettest in N Ireland:
Like 1941, April 1971 was another cold, dull and dry month, despite heavy rainfall on the 23rd, when many places had their wettest April day on record. Three days later heavy snow hit S Wales and the West Country:
Cold/Mild/Wet/Dry/Sunshine/Snow/Gales. All types of weather are possible here in April!
Source:
https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/SO_7498a04d-6a40-4207-a27f-772663ffd2fc/
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
If only people 80 years ago had known what they were doing to the climate they would have shut down the war effort immediately. I’m sure Adolf would have done the same and the world would be a safe place for pixies, fairies and unicorns. Or it might have been a complete disaster resulting in a Nazi dominated world taking irrational decisions based on fake science and propaganda to control the people. Err…..
The Brits are on the case…
British military aircraft must hit net-zero carbon target by 2040, says Air Force chief
“I recognize that sounds crazy to some, that we’ve got an Air Force Chief talking about being net zero,” Wigston said.
https://www.defensenews.com/smr/energy-and-environment/2021/05/04/british-military-aircraft-must-hit-net-zero-target-by-2040-raf-head-says/
Hit the target there, chief.
So, no more bombing raids at night then…those wing mounted solar panels are really gonna mess with future wars…..
…at least all those people hitherto identified as collateral damage will be able to sleep better of an evening…so not all bad…hey ho! (Or should that be Tally Ho!)
Ah… instead of a Nazi-dominated world we now have it’s equivalent: a NZC-dominated one.
Hopefully, we shall be saved – not by the climate, but by the weather.
BTW Paul: Interesting OpEd piece in the DT today from Charles Moore having a huge go at XR and greens.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/04/doctrine-net-zero-will-make-mugs-us/
Its!! (not it’s) arrgh.
Sorry, off topic, but I just caught the end of a Party Political Broadcast by the Green Party, aka BBC R4 Costing the Earth, to be repeated tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9pm. From the BBC website, somehow the horror story from South Australia in recent years has turned into a “miracle”, though of course the only people interviewed are members of the marketing department of Big Green:
“Australia’s government is famous for its lack of interest in climate change. Despite increasing problems from bushfires and droughts, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Liberal-led coalition government continue to promote coal-mining and dodge efforts to reduce the country’s carbon emissions. It’s all the more extraordinary then that one Australian state, governed by Mr Morrison’s party is streets ahead of most of the world in its conversion to renewable energy.
Peter Hadfield reports from Adelaide on the South Australian miracle.”
How does the BBC get away with being so politically biased and factually incorrect?
South Australia has actually suffered power cuts under the previous administration!
Sorry again for being off-topic, here is a different take on the “miracle” of South Australia, from WattClarity.com:
https://wattclarity.com.au/articles/2021/03/down-55-but-not-out/
Just to add to our misery listening to (the increasingly irrelevant) R4 PM this evening, Evan Davies enthusiastically announced the PM climate day for Thursday. Everything you need to know about CC. (VOMITS).
If it’s the Evan Davies climate change show and everything he knows, a couple of minutes should suffice.
Speaking from South Australia I would point out that both political parties are equally stupid. They have been able to tout their “success with renewables” thanks to lots of gas-fired generation and imports of brown coal-fired electricity from Victoria.
I lived through the three and a half days of the 2016 system blackout (and for some its was another 2 days more) fortunately while it wasn’t either cold or very hot. That caused Labor to get dumped at the next election, and the current government has just continued the same stupidity.
Yes since Costing The Earth is basically owned by the greens
so generally I ignore it
Then I saw today’s prog guide, saw it was outrageous
& sent out tweets to Hadfield and Oz embassy etc.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0jpwgtXoAE-MVc?format=jpg
Those April figures do show the 62yr AMO quite clearly. Just been reading one theory that AMO linked to orbits of Jupiter/Saturn!
I’m with HP on the its/it’s thing. The other stuff is weather.
Ne’er cast a cloot until May is oot!
Which ‘May’? 🙂
Hawthorn, also known as quickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, or hawberry flowering. Normally happens during the Month of May. Not an unreasonable adage, just think of the fuss the BBC made recently about Cherry blossom in Japan. Blossom of various trees does show some correlation with temperature.
Tick/VG, Ben. :_)
Noticeable absence of bleating about early Springs this year. This usually reaches a crescendo after a spell of warm weather. I was kinda hoping we’d be into full-blown Spring before the end of January.
I read somewhere that the CET minimum temperature was the coldest April ever, but can’t rememeber where.
Tallbloke’s twitter maybe.
Some data here for you AC:
https://www.centralenglandtemperature.co.uk/april-2021-coldest-since-1986/
(Edited by the author, as originally had 1922, but 1986 was cold, too.
Thanks.
April average minimum temperature in the CET dataset is the coldest since records began in 1878 – by a wide margin.
It’s very cold here today – again. Also a village up here has managed to set a record apparently https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/3106876/highland-village-records-joint-coldest-ever-may-day-bank-holiday/ . One for your records Paul?
I wonder how many of our leading journalists and crack climate scientists correctly predicted this April would be the coldest for almost a century, or that another ‘mini Pause’ (currently of around 6 years) is beginning to take shape?
I’m going with ‘none’.
A93 in Scotland close due to snow drifts, today [pics]
As mentioned above
On Thursday election day news progs can’t cover local elections
So @BBCRadio4 @bbcpm is doing a #climatechange special
So it’s an all day PPB for the Greens? Another one for OFCOM, surely.
I guess its Classic FM for me all day thursday then.
Paul, if you have nothing much to do at the moment here’s something to look at
America’s new climate normal: Parts of the US have seen a 10 PERCENT drop in rainfall in the past decade and more than 90% of country has become warmer
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9542229/Americas-new-normal-A-degree-hotter-two-decades-ago.html
I’m sure plenty of places see a 10% variation over a decade all the time. We know the mid-West did in the 1930s, hence the Dust Bowl. It was also warmer there then.
UAH global temperature for April -0.05.
La Nina probably but still remarkable that natural variation can drop temperatures so much.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2021/05/uah-global-temperature-update-for-april-2021-0-05-deg-c/
Wow it’s as if local weather is driven by local wind direction today
rather than being driven by graphs of temperatures for this date in the past
Hence there is big variation from year to year.
Now in May local TV news showed snow up on the Pennines.
Here’s another interesting CET statistic for you Paul.
It’s currently the coldest 7th April – 6th May since 1887.
https://www.centralenglandtemperature.co.uk/7th-april-6th-may-coldest-since-1887/