Eunice & Met Office Fraud
By Paul Homewood
Here’s the latest update on Eunice as at 8.00pm:
It shows more clearly than I can just how fraudulent the so-called “record” claim regarding the Needles is.
The whole idea that wind speeds there were miraculously 32 mph higher than anywhere else in the country is a self manifestly ridiculous con-trick.
And as I reported earlier, the wind speed at St Catherine’s Point, another extremely exposed location a few miles along the coast, where a lighthouse is situated, was far less at 84 mph.
No reputable organisation would even think about claiming a wind speed record at a location on the top of a 80m cliff, on a promontory stuck hundreds of yards out to sea, and with a data record of just a couple of decades. You might just as well stick a wind gauge on the top of Ben Nevis. (Or a rain gauge at the top of Honister Pass, or a thermometer next to the runway at Heathrow).
But, as we know, the Met Office is not a reputable organisation. (BTW – If Richard Betts would like to comment, I am sure readers would be delighted!)
St Catherine’s Point
But the Met Office has got the headlines it wanted from the start:
Shame on the fraudsters at the Met Office for this gross deception.
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The reading at the Needles is simply not credible. I am an amateur weather observer – have been for 40 years – weather has been my keen interest for 50 years. I regularly take note of observations and data from around the country. I simply cannot ever recall seeing wind gust data with one observing station being so much of an outlier compared with other stations. Sometimes the Cairngorm Summit can be significantly higher than other stations, but otherwise, at lowlands and along, say, the South Coast, given the standard exposure they are required to have, stations all fit within an expected range of gust values. You might see a range of 10-15 mph or so, but to be so different, by 30-40mph seems suspect to say the least. For the wind gust value at the Needles to be so much of an outlier implies one of two things to me (i) a measurement error/ equipment malfunction (ii) a ‘rogue’ gust, or local whirlwind or tornado quite localised and exceptional and not meaningful. It cannot be that there is such a difference with Isle of Portland or St. Catherine’s Point.
I am close toortland in one direction and other notable coastal wind spots in the other. Nowhere else came remotely near the Needles. It has no right to be considered as a suitable place for a record hurst point in one direction and Portland in the other had speeds some 30 mph lower. You don’t monitor ends 80 metres up a cliff on a promontory
Correct. That’s the other option is that this anemometer in this location at the Needles is so bizarrely located as to give readings that are freak and bear no value in general study/ reporting of the weather/
I have met with richard betts at the Met office several tears ago. A nice guy. I wrote to him recently with my report on the so called temperature record set at Cambridge botanic gardens. A site so urbanised that it breaks all the rules for a record.
Unfortunately I had no reply.
He has many duties these days and as he is a good scientist and an honourable man I am sure he will refuse to ratify the Needles non record. Hopefully whilst he is about it he will confirm the botanic gardens record has been deleted.
The opposite . Those outlier temps and windspeeds will be used to normalise the data from surrounding lower readings as being in need of adjustment. Upwards
You had a better experience with Richard Betts that I did in 2015 when Vanuatu and Cyclone Pam had all hearts aflutter.
I was in North East New Zealand when Pam struck. Yes, obviously a severe storm but, thankfully, by the time it hit NZ it was pretty much a nothingburger.
Obviously, Vanuatu is quite a long way from NZ, but the MET reports were the usual mandacious shroud waving.
I complained, either on here or maybe Bishop Hill and Betts had the cheek to reply, quoting words of wisdom from the IPCC.
I promptly pointed out that his “facts” were wrong and that the IPCC’s report was very different from the dreaded ultra- GangGreen “Summary for Policymakers” that he had claimed as ‘The Science’.
Unaccountably he was “too busy” to respond.
In my opinion, another barefaced fraudster, quite capable of making his mouth follow the Party Line and spout nonsense to order.
He is these days under the political stewardship of BEIS, https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy
What the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy does –
“Building a stronger, greener future by fighting coronavirus, tackling climate change, unleashing innovation and making the UK a great place to work and do business.”
Fighting coronavirus for a greener future?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rob-woodward-reappointed-as-chair-of-the-met-office
The Met Office is a Trading Fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Sounds like the Department for BS. High energy costs are killing the business sector.
The BBC, let alone the Met Office, is no reputable organisation. End of story.
And the point of all of this? Scare us further so we will want to eliminate down to zero, and net-zero our carbon emissions… to lower the Earth’s temperature? The 2021 global temperature anomaly is still less than one degree C. (plus 0.84°C). Why lower that?
It’s crazy. We would have to give up all of the energy that got us here and rely on solar and wind?? Even nuclear can’t transport anything. Unless you are in a submarine.
Just like the Post Office criminality and the treasonable behaviour of numerous Prime minister’s over the real EU agenda, there”s an agenda that doesn’t involve the truth, ethics or morality. No one will be brought to book for all the deceit, lies and fabrications. As usual just follow the money, personally I will not be having;
a) a ground source heat (lukewarm) pump
b) an electric vehicle
c) a smart meter
Yet the potentially intelligent people I know who blindly believe all this tosh is staggering!
Once the claim would have been ‘the highest ever gust’ in the UK, but obviously not, so ‘highest in England’, next ‘highest in the Isle of wight’, as long as the word ‘highest’ is involved they have achieved their aim.
Interestingly looking through my old climate textbooks from college this evening I found a reference to a gust of 116 knots (133mph) at Great Dunn Fell in the Pennines in January 1968. This is a book published in 1976..
This needs more publicity. Any chance of a photo that could be more widely publicised?
The Met Office quotes various record gusts sometimes below 250m, sometimes 500m, lots of highland sites have exceeded 122mph in England in the past, they are claiming the low level record.
I am not sure a weather station 250 foot high on rocks jutting into the ocean on an island are any sort of real world measurement
As I’ve repeatedly said. I was explaining why, regardless, England has recorded genuine still higher wind speeds. They are claiming the low-level record. Higher high level (upland/mountain) records already exists.
Met Office extremes:
Click to access factsheet_9_weather-extremes.pdf
118 knots (136 mph) Kirkwall (Orkney) 7 February 1969
Anybody with a knowledge of fluid mechanics could tell you that the land shape at the Needles is ideal for increasing the wind speed at the location of the anemometer, particularly with the wind coming from the west. What a fraud!
Exactly, I live on the top (15th) floor of an apartment block. A wind that would not bother me on the golf course can tip over a heavy BBQ and 100 kg potplants on our exposed terrace when it changes direction by a few degrees.both horizontally and vertically – the wind all of a sudden screams (and, it seems, laughs) at us.
It is evidently clear now that the Met Office cannot be trusted with extreme weather data. They keep on moving the goalposts to ramp up the anti on extreme weather purely in respect of the current political discourse and proclaimed ‘weather emergency’. They did the same two years ago with the temperatures on one specific day where in Cambridge they hurriedly included the University Botanic Gardens as an official site simply because it had recorded the hottest temperature one afternoon and the official Met Office Cambridge weather station less than a mile away had not recorded such a high temperature. They think we are all stupid and can’t see through this. Their biggest con trick is to exaggerate daily mean maxima temperatures by under adjusting the U.H.I. adjustment figure (currently set at just 0.2C). This is grossly inadequate as any keen meteorologist knows that on a clear, still night London can be up to 10C warmer than the outlying countryside.
Problem is, David, 98% of us are either that stupid or that trusting. We aren’t scientists but the majority if us believe that scientists are honest. Which means that scientists in other fields have difficulty in believing that colleagues in other disciplines would deliberately manipulate facts to suit their personal beliefs.
Today anyone who drives a car should be able to understand UHI even if not to scientifically demanded precision. (Most cars are equipped with thermometers, as far as I know). I can assure anyone who asks that the temperature difference between central Edinburgh and rural Midlothian is consistently between 3 and 5 degrees C, day or night, winter or summer.
The Cambridge ‘record’ was and always will be a fundamental scientific untruth. And if Betts chooses to argue that I think most contributors on here would agree with me.
Excellent Mr Jackson. The trust issue was highlighted in The Deniers and one of the featured deniers was Bjorn Lomborg to underline that while he is right about global warming prevention being a waste of money compared to adaption, he still believes the ‘scientists’.
Yes, my cars have a temp gauge and I regularly see a 5C change between country and town.
Back in 2003 the record temperature was claimed at Brogdale Faversham ( I was working in an office there at the time) It was well known locally (even joked about in pubs) that some workmen had wheeled paving setts around the screen to cause it to overly warm up just for a laugh. By the time the area was inspected for verification (it is not on automatic transmission) the setts had gone. The figure recorded was clearly ridiculously out of kilter with the area to such an extent that the Royal Meteorological Society actually investigated the claims. I think it was Phillip Eden. He concluded that interference from persons unknown could not be ruled out and confirmed his view that the figures were quite wrong.
No matter, the Met Office got the record they wanted despite it clearly being untrue. Things have clearly gone from bad to worse to straight fraud.
We have Berry Head, a notoriously windy coastal headland near me. Maximum during Storm Eunice was 78mph. That is a startling 44mph less than the Needles. bearing in mind that the Isle of Portland and St Catherines point either side of the Needles recorded a max of 90mph the 122mph cleartl didn’t happen in real world circumstances
I lost a section of trellis, so it was really bad.
You have to admire the talent of turning an overhyped forecast into these headlines. The forecast was wrong.
One of our patio chairs blew over.
You’ll never understand the stress and anxiety that this caused.
An interesting point is the damaged roof covering at the millennium dome.
I was a bit involved in the construction of this “temporary ” structure and as best I recall the roof membrane is long past its expected life.
The structure is life expired.
Decades old sun-rotted over-sized marquee torn by wind; suddenly doesn’t sound so alarming.
Thanks for that comment. I had an argument yesterday where I pointed out the Dome was only ever intended as a temporary structure and is way past its original design life. I couldn’t find any references and was beginning to think it was my imagination!
Ray
I made the mistake of visiting the dome and it was clearly intended for the 2000 exhibition but then the govt tried to sell it to recover the costs. Its a prime site and the owners have obviously tried to extend its life way beyond the sell by date.
I recall it being quoted as 25 years, so that’s about right for end of life.
According to this the material they eventually used should have been good for 25 years, but original plan was a completely temporary structure.
http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=73
Looking at it from a broader perspective, we’re experiencing normal winter gales. It’s as simple as that. Thankfully I didn’t hear ‘climate change’ mentioned on the edition of the BBC news I watched.
I have heard that one of Cambridge University Colleges took an investment in it some years ago.
Well the storm has passed. Not much damage here in East Yorkshire and it is now very still. It is now snowing quite heavily. Despite it being relatively mild it is now settling on the grass and on roofs. Let’s make sure that David Viner never lives it down.
There is a piece on Sky News by Tom Clarke that states: “Storm Eunice was not as bad as it could have been – but we may not be so lucky next time.”
Of course it could equally be said that we may be just as lucky next time; or luckier; or even that this storm has no bearing at all on future storms.
Why are they so keen to scare everyone? (it’s OK; that is a rhetorical question).
The morning after saw headlines in every newspaper quoting the 122mph figure, as if the wind had been that strong everywhere.