January 1954 – heavy rain, floods, severe gales, mild weather, very cold weather and thick snow
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
No doubt the alarmist media will dining out on this bit of news for a while!
The UK has provisionally recorded its warmest ever January temperature, as parts of Scotland hit 19.6C.
The temperature was recorded at Kinlochewe village in Wester Ross, in the Highlands, also making it a new winter record for Scotland, according to the Met Office.
Meteorologist Becky Mitchell told Sky News southern winds have dragged milder air from Africa across the UK, which have triggered higher-than-normal temperatures.
The winds are also bringing a Saharan dust cloud to parts of the UK, which may result in red dust settling on streets and cars over the next 24 hours.
The new record temperature beats the previous January highs of 18.3C set at Inchmarlo and Aboyne in 2003 and Aber in 1958 and 1971.
In January 1972, a foehn event caused the temperature in Montana, in the US, to rise from -48C to 9C – an increase of 57 degrees.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-records-its-warmest-ever-january-temperature-13058549
I wonder if they blamed the record on global warming in 1958?
In fact, as locals freely admit, Kinlochewe is a nice heat trap, surrounded as it is by mountains. One day’s temperatures there have zero significance from a climatological point of view.
In the rest of the country, it was a perfectly ordinary, mild day yesterday. The CET daily temperature reached just 11.9C, a figure which has been regularly exceeded in Januaries in the past.
Seventy years ago, January weather really was extreme, with heavy rain, floods, severe gales, alternating periods of extremely mild and very cold weather and thick snow:
Note those wind speeds. 84 kts at Renfrew is 97 mph, 76 kts at Southport equals 87 mph, both way above anything recorded this month, except for 800ft hills and the Needles.
I doubt they would have been worried about one mild day back then!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Gotta love a good news story.
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I saw that in the news yesterday , and looked up the actual details for that weather station , which showed that the real temperature was a fair bit lower .
But it did have reference to Dale Vince , so it was probably just more climate lies .
Checking another weather site shows that yesterdays max temp in Kinlochewe was actually 16C .https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@2645398
But they have probably not received the instructions to put up the fake temps .
The link gives weather data for Altbea, which is presumably the nearest official weather station to Kinlochewe, or the nearest one that feeds data into the Met Office’s climate network.
I doubt that the station at Kinlochewe has been operational for more than 20 years, so 19.6C in January was probably equalled or beaten several times in the 20th century.
Note: The rise in CET temperatures between 1980 and 2005, was due to the sensor being in the middle of the taxiways at Ringway (Manchester International Airport). All it was recording, was the huge increase in UK aviation, and the huge increase in size of the aircraft, from 1980 onwards.
Hence the levelling out of temperatures, following the sensor’s repositioning to the Stoneyhurst Society of Jesus College in Lancashire, with its imposing St Mary’s Hall.
The relocation of the sensor to Stoneyhurst was not based upon a few Hail Mary’s to weather gods, it actually has one of the longest continuous temperature series in the world.
Stoneyhurst college.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonyhurst_Observatory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonyhurst#/media/File:Stonyhurst_College.jpg
Ralph
Stoneyhurst college.
R
Off Topic
Sky News is doing its best to knock the BBC off the No1 Climate alarmist position.
A provisional figure of 19.9C was reported in northwest Scotland, the Met Office said
Same problem as Kinlochewe, Foehn effect. Achfary is sheltered by the Assynt mountains, distinctively shaped mountains, including Quinag, Canisp, Suilven and Ben More Assynt, that rise steeply from the surrounding land. Some of the steepest sided mountains in Scotland that I have seen
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-weather-warmest-ever-january-temperature-record-rises-to-nearly-20c-13059503
I’ve mentioned Achfary below. There are two weather stations there – an official Met Office one and a “Gold Award” enthusiast one shown on here
https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/observations/details/20240129oijzgi767ae67kyhyyguiqrnsy
You can view the amateur stations data above which recorded 1.1 degree celsius less than the Met Office one despite being only 500m away. Clearly this was a very micro locality event and represents nothing at all on a climate issue.
“I doubt they would have been worried about one mild day back then!”
Please be modern. The fashion is to worry about something – anything. If you don’t have something obvious to worry about, look for the unobvious, leave no stone unturned.
There is no doubt. The MET has gone full Schizophrenic.
Those records they haven’t fiddled with, hidden or vaporised, are indefatigably pulled out by Paul but the Geniuses running the operation continually spout the Science-Denier crap that is blatantly untrue.
I blame Julia Sligo and her appointees like Richard Best. He knows the preferred and HMG sponsored “narrative” is bollox but can happily lie with a straight face. The current team (Woodward, Endersby, Belcher etc. are possibly even worse.
Policy based evidence making at its finest. Sack the lot.
I did like Sky’s paragraph:-
“The winds are also bringing a Saharan dust cloud to parts of the UK, which may result in red dust settling on streets and cars over the next 24 hours.“
That, is your actual terrifying PM2.5s. Sadiq Khant’s life-threatening “Air Pollution”, allegedly so much more dangerous than the London and Industrial cities “smogs” of the 1950s. See also the Yank’s EPA’s “Six Cities” study.
If the winds had been from a different direction, it might have been soil particles from ploughing, rubber crumb from those hefty BEVs, salt crystals from Atlantic gales. All PM2.5s. All as deadly as depleted Uranium dust or Botulinum Toxin. Allegedly.
Curious we have survived this “air pollution” for hundreds of thousands of years. Or, perhaps it is like “hot days”, which used to just be enjoyed.
“Curious we have survived this “air pollution” for hundreds of thousands of years.”
That’s impressive;
None of my family have survived that long, 86 is the oldest we’ve ever got to.
(:-))
So Chris Fawkes starts off sensible on Country File forecast, I only watch that bit. Explains that it was all due to the Foehn effect. Then later on at 10 o’clock Rita goes on about record temps and Fawkes shows us charts of hot (red) temps around the world and links it to the Scottish record, no mention of Foehn effect!
Official Met Office Stations are listed here. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-synoptic-and-climate-stations
Approximate co-ordinates are supplied which can be copied and pasted to google maps. Kinlochewe is quoted as 57.613, -5.305 which is clearly not in the village. The station is actually here at a Nature Scot office site.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/57%C2%B036'46.2%22N+5%C2%B018'23.0%22W/@57.6127403,-5.3066657,75m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d57.6128362!4d-5.3063921?entry=ttu
It was not listed on previous editions of the above list so I suggest it is relatively new. Hardly a surprise then.
Image of the Kinlochewe station.
https://www.google.com/maps/@57.6126706,-5.3078232,3a,15y,72.87h,86.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snIxnIIRtfXsjZ-TnYj8_qA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Paul, it gets worse:
Mark here is the site at Achfary from google maps – it is a manual site. Hardly representative is it!
https://www.google.com/maps/@58.312348,-4.9147899,3a,75y,292.93h,75.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUhhpcEOLtjL11TFIk6bHCg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
A bit more interesting information. There is an “enthusiasts” weather station described by the Met Office themselves as
“Located in an open field at Achfary clear of buildings and trees. Approximately 500 metres from the Met Office Stevenson screen and rain gauge at Achfary.”
This site only recorded 18.8°C which is a hell of a lot different to 19.9°C just a short distance away. Hmmm, I really doubt all of these readings as representing anything other than some freak occurrence being it natural of anthropogenic..
https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/observations/details/20240129orjub4f6hee67kyhyyguiqrnsy
Let’s look at this realistically. ‘The UK has provisionally recorded its warmest ever January temperature,‘ Grossly misleading as usual. The temperature was not recorded over the whole of the UK, It was recorded in just one village in the Highlands, and not ‘as parts of Scotland hit 19.6C.‘ Another attempt to mislead the public into reading and believing that the whole of the UK is breaking records in January
OT = BBC Recruiting
After seeing this in the Telegraph one can, I reckon be sure as can be that climate change rectitude is also tested for.
Halloooo… any leakers out there?
‘BBC staff told not to hire candidates who are ‘dismissive’ of diversity ‘
‘A recruitment policy document says applicants should be asked to “explain what diversity and inclusion means to you and, should you be successful, what opportunities do you see for you to promote, celebrate or encourage diversity and inclusion in your role?”
The guidelines, used in a major non-editorial department of the BBC, tell recruiters: “Don’t hire [candidates who are] unsuited to the organisation” if they are “dismissive or derisory of diversity and inclusion and surrounding topics”.
Managers are also directed not to offer jobs to candidates who show a “lack of interest in learning more where no evidence of education and understanding of diversity and inclusion was given”.’
So you can join the BBC but only if you have exactly the same views and opinions as the institution does. Inclusive or exclusive?
‘Commenting on the recruitment guidelines, a BBC source said: “The BBC is not a welcoming place for those with conservative opinions. Management talks about diversity without embracing diversity of thought.
“The place that I have given years of my working life, and that I sincerely cherish, currently feels captured by Left-wing activists and is unable to deliver on our core principle of impartiality.
“Hiring on the basis of adherence to diversity and inclusion ideology excludes most conservative-minded people, and indeed much of the population.”
NEWS:
Wind turbine explodes after bursting into flames at quiet Welsh farm, showering broken parts to the ground
Here are the coordinates for the 3-tower facility where-at one burned.
51.99594, -4.44199
That spot is between two, and the other one is 1/3 mile east.
The turbines became operational in July 2002.
John thanks for that info. Here is a news link with photos.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/look-shocking-moment-wind-turbine-104034382.html
Odd. Lower unit it aimed to the east. Upper unit is aimed to WSW.
If you run it backwards, will it catch fire?
Do we know how long the weather station at Kinlochewe village has been in existence? How do we know it hasn’t been warmer before the station was operational?
1953 apparently
The site was set up in the early 1950s as part of this nature reserve and research centre.
https://www.nature.scot/sites/default/files/2018-02/The%20Story%20of%20Beinn%20Eighe%20National%20Nature%20Reserve.pdf
‘Aye, it’s been fine tee shirt weather in the heilins?
https://fb.watch/pWoLe4vAeI/?