Britain’s Weather A Hundred Years Ago
By Paul Homewood
https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/SO_e109527b-8971-4e30-b420-d486dad326de/
The Met Office would love people to think that there is such a thing as a “normal” British climate; any variation from this norm now can then be labelled as an example of a “changing climate”.
There are averages of course, average temperatures, rainfall and so on. But averages and norms are two different things, the former being merely an arithmetic construct.
A look back at the Met Office archives shows just how variable our weather was 100 years ago. The list below shows the headlines for each monthly weather report, with a bit more detail from those reports in some months.
- January: Mild, with frequent gales
- February: An extremely wet month: the second wettest on record in England: temperatures reached 61F: heavy snowfall
- March : Mild and dry
- April: Cold and wet: severe frosts
- May: Cold and dull
- June: Cool, dull and dry
- July: Hot and thundery: temperatures hit 96F: floods caused considerable damage in Cambridge
- August: Rather cool and wet
- September: Cool, sunny in SE, wet in North
- October: Wet and windy
- November: Cold, sunny and foggy: very severe floods in NW England
- December: A variable month: considerable snowfall across Britain
There was nothing unusual about 1923; most years will show similar swings from one extreme to the other from month to month, and week to week.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
It has been cool and rainy here in Crete for weeks. Changeable.
But, off topic – anyone else been noticing the UK electricity price going negative some days according to iam kate? And European natural gas pricing at 2019 levels? How are your bills – coming down yet?
Bills coming down?
You’re having a laugh
Apparently the energy companies have got contracts at June 2022 prices until 2025.
That’s their excuse for prices staying high
Contracts with whom?
Our suppliers buy their gas and electricity from producers none, not even British Gas, actually produce energy. To prevent them being affected by volatile changes in market prices they have long term contracts.
Fairly common practice, consumers can have fixed one or two year contracts. You can have a 5 Year fixed mortgage
What you are doing is gambling that prices or interest rates are going to change and it won’t be in your favour.
In this case our energy retailers expected wholesale energy costs to remain high or increase which was unlikely as high prices make marginal sources profitable.
Just got back from Crete ourselves, nice week in Perama.
A lot more rain than expected, less sun & cooler.
Prices coming down? No chance.
It’s in the Government’s interest to keep them high, as “Renewables” won’t require as high levels of subsidies that they’d otherwise be entitled to.
You have to give it to the Alarmists, they have honed the words to increase alarm extremely well. First we had Global Warming. That didn’t alarm enough as the world didn’t warm as much as was feared so it was changed to Climate Change. That didn’t sound urgent enough so they changed it to Extreme Weather and eventually Climate Crisis and Climate Emergency. Nothing much has changed to warrant this ramping up of fear talk but it is very effective as we can see even though ups a downs of weather patterns have gone on for ever.
And all of that as ECS has declined and future emissions scenarios lowered too. The simple truth is that the science has become less and less scary whilst the Alarmism has ramped up and up.
I’ve noticed that recently a lot of eco-loons now talk about “climate collapse” which they assure us will happen unless we all mend our ways and go back to medieval living conditions. Disgracefully, the media reporters never challenge these loons to describe exacly what they think will happen, why it will happen and when. If they did, we might see the absurdity of these claims laid bare – maybe even to the eco-loons themselves.
The Met Office should now be considered – as the IPCC is – a global warming advocacy group. Its days as a respected meteorological organisation are long gone.
I think, like many such organisations, a political advocacy group has been grafted on to a science organisation. And as with just about every institution, a culture of fear has gone with that, where nobody dares speak out or challenge the political agenda. The resemblance to the USSR is quite extraordinary.
Robert Conquest:
2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
I note that most of the monthly assessments are relative. Relative to climate.
Ipso facto, climate is what you expect; weather is what you get.
RE: Climate change: what you expect cannot change what you get. What you get could change what you expect.
Does anyone else get irritated by the constant reporting of ‘the warmest day so far this year’. On average, until peak summer temperature, that will be every day from Spring onwards.
Yes. It’s hardly likely that temps will get to be the coolest before high Summer. It’s all part of the Goeballs Broadcasting Co attempt to frighten the naive young.
The weather man was saying that it was fairly unusual to be this late in the year and not to have hit 25C yet. So in that respect it has been quite cool. But the CET mean is yet again running close to the all time warmest few.
The weather man pointed out that in recent times, 3 of the latest dates to first reach 25C were in the 1980s, following those cold winters no doubt.
Why the bias of these official, supposedly ethical, honest and responsible experts?
They want to be in with the elites.
Whilst the agencies, the Met Office, the IPCC, etc. declare all types of emergency it is our dim stupid MPs who allow such views to prevail. One really does think there is not one cabinet member who can tell the truth and be listened to.
Not “allow”, encourage as required by their UN/WEF/Davos masters.
Observe that none of the Cassandras of Warmunism produce graphs based on ordinary news reports of weather like this one. Verifiable measurement with reproducible results give them the wrong answers. Even Phys.org has lately been Anchlussed by arm-waving, faceless econazis.
Isn’t the variability in British weather the reason that weather has always been a talking point in the UK?