Britain Set To Bask In Blistering 9-Week Heatwave (Or Maybe Not!)
By Paul Homewood
The silly season is back!
From GB News:
Britain is warming up for a late summer scorcher with the deadly Cerberus heatwave threatening to flick a tail of fire across the nation.
The killer Saharan heat surge, named after the terrifying mythological monster guarding the gates to Hell, is set to turn its gaze towards the UK in the coming weeks.
Alarm bells have sounded for rocketing temperatures next month to kick start a freak two-month autumn heatwave.
British Weather Services meteorologist Jim Dale says summer could come to a sizzling end.
He said: “There’s still about a 10-per cent chance that we could see a 40C by the end of the summer, the chance is small, but it is there.
https://www.gbnews.com/weather/weather-forecast-britain-heatwave-autumn-2023
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, the Met Office forecast:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcqc7vwut#?date=2023-07-21
It should be pointed out here that Jim Dale is one of the nutters who keep forecasting global warming armageddon, so he has zero credibility.
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Local news in Ireland were hyping climate change fear & catastrophe over this Summers heatwave in the Mediterranean, announcing temperatures that have not been recorded yet as a done deal.
However, their bid to engender fear was completely at odds with the interviews they conducted with people at the airports about to fly out on their Summer holidays, who were really looking forward to getting away from the miserable rain and wind weather this July.
Fair enough , but I always liked him in the Carry on films .
Except, Carry On Columbus, they should have left the franchise to rest!
Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me! KW not JD but seems to fit most of ‘their’ diabolical plans.
The Beeb is amazed that bookings for holidays in Europe, Turkey and Egypt are up despite the warnings. So… they talk heat deaths
The medium range forecasts by the Met Office – which are presumably made by genuine, middle-ranking, meteorological scientists – are sober and credible.
If the Met put out anything else, serious users of their forecasts, like farmers, would make a stink.
But we know how it all works, in the MSM. Wild predictions are made by nobodies pretending to be official somebodies, made on the off-chance that something might happen, which the sheeple will forget were ever made when nothing does happen.
The prospects for the Atlantic Hurricane season, according to the William M Gray Centre** at CSU, are for a slightly above average season: ACE = 150 as opposed to climatology ACE = 135.
Click to access 2023-07.pdf
Of course, it is always a crap-shoot, which is what they acknowledge.
* If something does happen we will never hear the end of it. Like the silly commentators at Wimbledon: “Fookalokavic hasn’t smashed his racket today!” “Yes, who can forget the day in 1992 when he DID and was docked a point? It was in the semi-final at Nottingham, It was raining and thirty-eight people were watching with ninety-three asleep…The score was 15:40…”
** Named after one of the good guys who always opposed the CAGW claptrap.
Your post is largely correct However your use of the childish, perjorative term “sheeple” for those who are probably fully concerned with keeping a job and trying to provide for their family, is arrogant to say the least.
Oooh, get ‘er!
I understand people sunning themselves now have to address the new risk of “SUN POISION” what ever that is.
As I found through measurements here on the South Coast of England, in strong unbroken sun a reading of say 27C in the shade translates to around 47C in the sun.
Presumably an actual 40c reading in say Greece would translate to around 60C in the sun. Yet people were still turning up at the Acropolis and lying on the beach cooking themselves in the sun.
On Dartmoor this morning it was raining and a distinctly cool 13C
I suspect they are also furious that people continue to fly despite being told by the BBC they shouldn’t. So they try and make these places dangerous.
Nathan Rao of GB News, tabloid journalist par excellence!
Nathan Rao – ex Daily Express and we know how good their forecasts are !!!
I thought GB News was going a bit ‘DE’ and now I know why.
The propaganda machine continues… https://dailysceptic.org/2023/07/16/british-government-funds-campaign-to-rewrite-climate-science-entries-on-wikipedia/
Wikipedia is the last place I go to look for info on climate science. It got Con-olley’d a long time ago. Are they planning on expunging his alarmism?
Read the Sunday Observer just now. The whole of Europe will be suffering unprecedented heat waves shortly. And for weeks. Terrifying
I wish … on July 15th it was so cold we had to light the wood-burner
Our friends flew out to Portugal yesterday and reported “weather lovely and warm” hardly a ringing endorsement of the “blistering heatwave across southern Europe”
A Climate reporter on Sky News stated that these hot temperatures (she actually called them brutal) in southern Europe could affect the tourist trade. Of course they do, that is why people flock there.
This period is known as the Dog days of summer which has its origins in Ancient Greece and Rome so this extreme heat seems nothing unusual.
“In ancient Greece and Rome, the Dog Days were believed to be a time of drought, bad luck, and unrest, when dogs and men alike would be driven mad by the extreme heat! Today, the phrase doesn’t conjure up such bad imagery. Instead, the Dog Days are associated purely with the time of summer’s peak temperatures and humidity.
Why Are They Called the “Dog Days” of Summer?
This period of sweltering weather coincides with the year’s heliacal (meaning “at sunrise”) rising of Sirius, the Dog Star. Sirius is part of the constellation Canis Majoris—the “Greater Dog”—which is where Sirius gets its canine nickname, as well as its official name, Alpha Canis Majoris. Not including our own Sun, Sirius is the brightest star in the sky.
In ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome, it was believed that the dawn rising of Sirius in mid-to-late summer contributed to the extreme weather of the season. In other words, the “combined heat” of super-bright Sirius and our Sun was thought to be the cause of summer’s sweltering temperatures. The name “Sirius” even stems from the Ancient Greek seírios, meaning “scorching.”
Terrifying? Many tourist destinations will be under waster by 2050 according to this report.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12291877/Heres-tourist-destinations-look-like-2050-climate-change.html
Has something gone awry with the climate reanalyzer anomalies maps? What with the recent hottest days ever claims, and the current heat in S Europe and SW USA is not really as obvious as it has been in the past?
As for any future UK heat, anytime the heat is elsewhere it can end up here and the forecasts, especially 2 week forecasts can do a 360 overnight. It’s anybody’s guess. Could be cool for the rest of summer or months of hell from next week until November!
The obsession with social media has resulted in people having no memory at all. When you have 6522 photos on your smartphone and you have to deal with 50 messages a minute, all recall is lost. So the media are laughing. They can say exactly what they like about climate and the weather and it will be instantly forgotten. It’s a news propaganda paradise.
The GFS model goes out 15 days shows cool and periods of rain. So no heatwave.
In the past I have read that the GFS model is particularly poor, and can barely be trusted for 5 days ahead. Mind you, these days it seems to be in good company as forecast are changed everyday, even for the next day. In the run up to the South of England Show I was considering which 2 of 3 days to go. At the start of the week the Saturday was going to be dull and wet – turned out to be the hottest day of the 3 as the wind dropped and there was less cloud. Somebody commented that they had seen hailstorms forecast. I suppose if this was Greece or Italy, the Goodwood Festival of Speed would have been cancelled as it would have been too hot.
Wasn’t it St. Swithun’s Day yesterday? I have more trust in folklore than any meteorologist.
Yes it was. Swithun was Bishop of Winchester in the 9th century and chaplain to King Egbert of Wessex when Winchester was more important than London. History shows a poor success rate for the 40 days prediction but we can’t be sure that it did not hold truer back in the Middle Ages as perhaps the climate has changed.
I was being facetious of course, because our forecasts have no more relevance than the Bishop – perhaps less!
Most folklore has been proven to have no relevance to the present day. Perhaps a few hundred years ago there was a particular weather pattern that kept recurring that gave rise to some lore. But then that pattern changed…..
About the same relevance as forecasts !
I see that GBN still uses the MetO to provide its weather bulletins and on Friday when looking at the chart the presenter commented that it looked more like one for October with a low pressure system coming in from the SW.
Interesting to look back to this time last year. Then my gas use was down but my electricity up, this year it has reversed. With last year’s heat, my attic water tank was nice and warm so needed less heating for hot water while I had fans running to keep cool.
Some historical perspective…
Weather of 1921…(press comments outside the US):
BRITISH ISLES: London, July 10. England is sweltering and suffering the worst drought in a century. Today was the seventy-eighth virtually rainless day. For the third successive day temperatures have exceeded 100. The rainfall for the year is less than one-third normal to date.
Atmospheric CO2: ~280 ppm.
I had been meaning to e.mail GB News and ask for them to put someone on to counter the alarmists that they keep producing,and lo and behold Nana Akua (yesterday) I think it was,produced the physicist Brian Catt,who did a wonderful job to dismantle one such.
I intend to e.m GBN and congratulate them,and ask for more.Perhaps have Will. Happer on the show to demonstrate why CO2 is a nonsense.
I believe Prof. Catt has been on this site occasionally in the past.
Utterly absurd to see the Observer leading with a story about the fires on La Palma. Curiously they don’t advise us of the current temperature there….
Furthermore it’s been noticeable there’s been little mention of the “wet bulb” which seems to have fallen out of fashion, in relation to the heatwave in Southern Europe. Surely it couldn’t be due to the fact that Mediterranean climates have relatively low humidity, thereby giving unremarkable numbers on that measure?
I just wonder what 1976 would have been like if we had thermometers that could measure to decimal places. I can remember reading mine and thinking, that’s ABOUT 100 Deg F. Otherwise, we just thought, it’s hot – knowing that soon it would be cold. We called it weather. AND, it didn’t happen again for a generation. So it was still Weather.
Modern thermometers may give accurate readouts (is there a standard for the elapsed time a reading occurs?) but they give a false comparison to the past.
Sweaty hot in the EU but nicely cook in UK.
Thanks to Brexit.
cool !!
No edits allowed?
The UK could be struck by an asteroid the size of Hull. The chance is small, but it is there.
Pigs might gain private pilot licences.
Shouldn’t the headline read “90% chance of pleasant to cool weather?”
The Guinness Book of World records has Furnace Creek, California at 134℉ in July 1913. It has reached 130℉ a few times, most recently August 16, 2020. The weather screamers are predicting 131℉, calling it the hottest temperature ever recorded on the surface of the Earth.
Yeah.
“Furnace Creek”. A hint, right there.
I recall the poor folk who had bought their homes at a place not so far from here, called Fishlake.
Imagine their surprise with a foot of water in the living room! Lack of maintenance of drains, dykes, pumping stations etc didn’t help.
Climate Change at it’s best.
You Brits blister easy. 30°C will do it.
Of course we all know that predictions will come true e.g.
2004: Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020
Source: The Guardian, February 21, 2004
Between 2010 and 2020, Europe would be hardest hit by climatic change, with an average annual temperature drop of 6°F (3°C). Major cities in Europe will be sunk beneath rising seas
2007 Dr. David Viner within twenty years, the Mediterranean would become far too hot for European holiday makers, who would instead flock to Blackpool to take advantage of warmer summers in the UK.
2008 University of Manitoba Prof. David Barber predicted an ice-free
North Pole for the first time in history in 2008,
2010: Greenland Ice Sheet has less than 10 years
“What is going on in the Arctic now is the biggest and fastest thing that nature has ever done”. The entire mass of Greenland will disappear if temperatures rise as little as 2℃.… unleashing a sea level rise of 7 metres by 2020. The Guardian reporting on House of Rep. meeting.
2012 Prof. Peter Wadhams, head of the polar ocean physics
group at the University of Cambridge (UK), predicted a collapse of the
Arctic ice sheet by 2015-2016
And those making them never change their mind.
1979 AD (Stephen Schneider) An ICE AGE within 30 years
1981 AD (Stephen Schneider) The World is getting hotter rapidly
Monday a.m. watching GB news and it seems as though in respect of “climate emergency” they have gone full BBC. Eamon Holmes (who looks well past it) interviewing our favourite climate expert and ex carryon actor Jim Dale. Full scaremongering, no questioning, we’re all going to burn, plagues of israel etc.
seriously though GBnews and Talk TV are usually an outlet from the BBC/Sky MSN narrative but this lack objectivity and journalistic integrity on this subject from GBnews is very disappointing.
Unlike practically every other outlet GBN give the opposition a chance to put their point across – often making total fools of themselves – before shooting them down in flames.
Just when all the models were screaming for 48.8°C, the BBC has ‘reported’ that the temperatures in Europe will peak at 46°C. 2.8° error is a terrible forecast error. Just heard Vine complain that the Earth is on fire – why do these morons have a platform?