No, BBC–It Was Not The Warmest February On Record
By Paul Homewood
England and Wales had their warmest February on record this year, the Met Office said on Friday.
The average temperature for England was 7.5C, with an average of 6.9C in Wales. The UK as a whole saw its second warmest recorded February.
Farmers say they are losing crops to floods while less frost hurts the growth of trees like apples and pears.
The provisional statistics are in line with long-term projections of warmer, wetter winters due to climate change.
Average temperatures for the UK as a whole in February were 6.3C.
That’s still below February 1998’s figure of 6.8C.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68435197.amp
The Met Office data goes back to 1884, but yet again the Met Office conveniently ignore the much longer CET series, which shows that February 1779 was actually warmer. This makes a nonsense of their claim that one month’s mild weather has anything to do with “climate”.
And as the CET table below shows, there have been six other Februarys above 7.0C, with none since 1998.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/meantemp_ranked_monthly.txt
The UK chart also clearly shows that mild Februarys have occurred from time to time throughout the record. It is the absence of extremely cold months in the last decade or two which is largely responsible for the rise in average temperatures.
Given the fact that most of the Met Office’s temperature stations are junk, any claims that last month was a fraction of a degree warmer than, for instance 1945, cannot be treated seriously.
The BBC also talk of floods, yet although last month was much wetter than average, it was a long way from being a record, and there have been several other years with similar amounts of rainfall. It is the same story with winter rainfall as a whole.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
It is not known as February fill dyke for nothing:
February fill the dyke,
Be it black or be it white;
But if it be white,
It’s the better to like.
Rainfall amounts may not be outstanding for England as a whole but I can assure you that here in North Yorkshire it’s been a dreadfully wet winter, quite cold mostly with 3 lots of snow. We’ve barely seen the sun and the ground is compleley saturated. No doubt there will be hose-pipe bans come the Summer!
The gloves are off (if ever they wore them). Out and out lying has been normalized and gains you brownie points if you generate or promote lies on behalf of “the cause”, unlike the fate of those sharing empirical data based facts which challenge the fraud. For that “crime” at best you are attacked from all sides and worst you lose your job.
Just think of the toxic and poisonous state of our tax payer funded institutions where amoral people become the standard employee.
We have had a very log and COLD winter. When are the AGM Klyymutt fantasists and their willing propagandists going to look back and discuss that?
A further observation
“England and Wales had their warmest February on record this year, the Met Office said on Friday.
The average temperature for England was 7.5C, with an average of 6.9C in Wales. The UK as a whole saw its second warmest recorded February.
Farmers say they are losing crops to floods while less frost hurts the growth of trees like apples and pears.
The provisional statistics are in line with long-term projections of warmer, wetter winters due to climate change”.
Notice AGAIN AND AGAIN the presumption of cause by these weasels who know or should know fine well that wittering on about an effect is meaningless unless you can point to a cause using statistically significant empirical data.
There exists no such data tying CO2 to warming of the planet OR CO2 released back into the Carbon Cycle from whence it was historically removed so it is fundamentally disingenuous to claim or infer anything from this in respect of cause except to repeatedly say how wonderful it is and how terrible it would be if it was not happening.
Notice how none of those burgeoning ranks of those dependent upon promoting the man made climate scam for their salary, go anywhere near the logical question of explaining the three previous warmings (Minoan, Roman & Medieval) and comparing them to the current welcome warming, because if they do the penny will drop and even the brainwashed products of our once august education system will start asking questions.
Notice the meaningless and “Farmers say”. Which farmers and why do you not tell us who they are and where they farm? JUST BELIEVE!
Also, can someone explain to me how “less frost” hurts pears and apples? I understand the issue of early blossoming followed by later frosts nipping the buds but what is this about less frost hurting pears without mentioning the whole issue? By that logic the Antarctic must be covered with apple and pear orchards as there is all the frost they could need there.
Frosts kill insect larvae and eggs.
I’m a fully paid up AGW sceptic, but anyone who is calling this winter cold needs to give their noggin a good shake. You’re imaging it or lying as much as the alarmists regularly do.
If you pay attention to what I have written you will see I question why there has been no assessment at what had been a long and frequently snowy winter whereas already they are hyperventilating over very modest temperatures in February. Given the equal hyperventilation we have been bombarded with by both organizations about “snow and frost being a thing of the past, I question the lack of introspection at the very least by an organization who’s mouthpieces appear to have lost all understanding concerning the clear difference between weather and climate together with the difference between appropriate location of “weather recording instrumentation”. I made no claims about temperature records of which only warm ones appear to be of interest the questionable data managers in the MetOffice, enthusiastically broadcasted by their mates in the BBC.
It is guaranteed that the Met Office will continue to record increasing temperatures simply because they have decided to. This is the google maps satellite view of the MO Chertsey Abbey Mead site.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/51%C2%B023'52.8%22N+0%C2%B029'38.4%22W/@51.3982834,-0.4956403,218m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d51.398!4d-0.494?entry=ttu
Only it doesn’t look like that anymore as can be seen from the Bing Maps more recent image here.
https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=51.398672%7E-0.494475&lvl=18.1&style=h
A solar farm was built completely surrounding the site. A few months ago I contacted the Met Office to query whether this development affected the site’s data. The response was that all their sites meet the highest standard.
Something has to be done to stop such blatant disregard for accuracy.
Ray,
yet only yesterday here, lists the classification of the Met Offices monitoring sites, nearly 50% are grade 4. barely 15% or so are grade 1 or 2, which can be classed as the ‘highest standard’.
Possibly the respondent is not aware of grades and is unknowingly giving bad information but there can be no excuse whatsoever for such actions.
The whole Met Office needs a good shake up and restore their function as a scientific and weather information body.
My weekly energy use record notes that this coming week last saw the South East have snow and it was cold. I think it was colder here last February as well as the cherry plum blossom came so late that I actually got some fruit. The blossom is on its last legs today and I doubt there will be any fruit. It has been a period of frequent rain as those of us involved in county level football know all too well such that there might have to be an extension to the season but then that has happened before. But an extension into May might not help as last May was wet at the start that saw a local country show cancelled as the water was ankle deep in the fields the week before.
If it was a warm February wouldn’t that be a good thing? Lower energy bills and more people die in cold weather than hot.
Thats a basic misunderstanding. More people die in the winter months than the summer months. I’ve yet to see convincing correlations with temperature and the direct cause is likely to be infections whose seasonality remains a mystery.
Well we still have the lower energy bills.
The UK has temperate, maritime weather. It would be bizarre and worrying if the weather didn’t routinely vary from some sort of “average” .
It’s annoying that medjia weather-guessers refer to “normal” weather, as if the UK weather was manufactured on a production line under a rigorous quality assurance regime to achieve a “normalized” ( or “standardized” ) product.
It’s when they say, when claiming hot or cold, “what it should be for the time of year”. How do they know what it “should be”?
Dennis, that “should be” “ought to be” “what we would expect”,”normal” etc makes my blood boil. I have complained multiple times to the BBC about this but they just blank me.
“Normal” is the bizarre choice of Meteorology for average. And the BBC in particular (deliberately?) misunderstand what averages are.
Since we know how unreliable recent Met Office temperature data is (sites not meeting criteria etc.) , we can reject the claims of the BBC. It’s been very wet here in Devon but have any rainfall records been broken?)
… but have any rainfall records been broken?
If the data collection is flawed then perhaps no-one knows with certainty if records have been broken over a large geograpical area.
The average temperature for England was 7.5C, with an average of 6.9C in Wales. The UK as a whole saw its second warmest recorded February.
Gamecock doth protest the use of the word ‘warmest.’ There is nothing remotely warm about 7C.
The UK as a whole saw its second least miserably cold recorded February.
Fixed it.
Huh, I’m always amazed how the weather knows how to change at the Scottish Border: Maybe if it was a PROPER United Kingdom, ( without borders,) we wouldn’t have these daft records being created. Guess what, I’ll change many of the boundaries and we’ll see better what’s happening then. Eh? Moving the goalposts?
From today’s Times (p.69)
“The other stand out feature of this winter was its incredible mildness – even balmy at times. England and Wales had their warmest Februarys on record in archives dating back to 1884, after a warm December and January across much of the U.K.”
So they have picked up and repeated the story. I’m not qualified to comment but a suggestion would be to present it to the BBC radio programme ‘More or Less’ who are unbiased and not afraid to challenge. They did an excellent programme on the misinformation that went viral regarding electricity pricing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jkq0
The records have fewer than 200 data points. Why should we have had all the possible “natural” February’s in that time? Given the UK’s position and the month, there must be billions of combinations of all the possible variables.
ITV also ran with the Warmest February ever message (March 1 evening news summary.)
Surely, the Met office management are guilty of fraud. They are knowingly using their position of power and influence to push an agenda against the interests of the population irrespective of the truth.
You are subjects of the government. The truth is what they tell you it is.
The interests of the population are subordinated to the interests of government.
long cold February for me. Record warmest I don’t think so
North Wales, 5 months of wet weather and tonight’s forecast is -1 and not above 6 degrees for the next ten days. Wonder how they’ll spin that.
What frustrates me is – do the ‘big media’ get these messages? Does anyone report their lies to Ofcom? Is there a corporate group of like minded people who just can’t take this c**p any more? Do we have a bigger voice that anyone will listen to? Or will they carry on until we are all lemmings (like most of my friends) and don’t question anything they tell us?