How Wet Was It Last Month?
April 2, 2024
By Paul Homewood
The BBC’s nudge unit has been hard at work trying to persuade us that it was unusually wet last month.
In fact it was only 31st wettest March across the UK. In England it ranked 19th.
Of course it has also been a wetter than average start to the year, but again not unusually so, ranking 13th wettest. By far the wettest Jan to March was a long time ago in 1990:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-and-regional-series
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
There has been a lack of blocking Highs to the North East this year, the wrecker of so many early Easters in recent decades, cold and dry winds blowing unimpeded down the English Channel. Maybe also saved the UK from blackouts.
But it can,t be wetter than normal , it was only a year or so ago that they were saying we would have a drought because of GLOBAL Warming .
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-forecasts-drought-may-remain-beyond-spring-2023
Er emm, that’s not wot Loo is Liar said today o her weather ( Ha ha – got it all wrong here today) She said that the forecast warmer weekend will of course result in Wetter weather ( or words to that effect) didn’t she ? Well, Here in Inner Moray Forth it’s been a very cold (6 to 8C) coupla days and the rain this afternoon is once again falling on still saturated soils.
…. and at 5.30 this morning, same person said ” we need a reminder that warmer is wetter ..” ….. emm, just too early in the morning for some …. ” stress in the workplace”
It’s wetter than average, not “normal”.
As ever, around 50% of years are wetter than average.
It is only WEATHER!
I bet the bbc don’t say anything about average temperature in March, here in N Wales it was low single figures every day.
Paul, thank you. Here in Cumbria (a notoriously wet part of the country) it hasn’t been an unusually wet (or warm) start to the year at all. Yet that’s what we hear constantly from the BBC and other propagandists. It feels clime climate by gaslight.
Oops. That last sentence should have read “It feels like climate by gaslight”.
There seem to have been a lot of days with some rain, but much less flooding than in several recent years around me.
I don’t think there’s been an excessive amount of rain. The difference has been that it has rained to some degree nearly every day in Teesdale since September. We haven’t had downpours, just persistent drizzle/showers.
And right on cue, here is our old mate Jim Dale:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/met-office-verdict-mega-heatwave-32493689
My agricultural show newsletter claims February 2024 as being the wettest in the UK since 1836 when the Met Office data says it is in eleventh place and 2020 as the wettest.
I queried their comment and was told that – surprise, surprise – it came from the BBC although she couldn’t find the quote. She sent a Sky one that confirmed what I found from MetO data.
Be interesting to see rainfall correlated with temperature.
Did the approximate 1 million litres of seawater blasted into the stratosphere by the submarine volcano, Hunga Tonga, have anything to do with more rainfall? What goes up …!
It was 1.5 trillion litres…
As an adjunct, the BBC Today programme broadcast a piece on Network Rail’s mooted upgrade in which the expenditure of large sums is to some extent warranted by changing environment ‘Global Warming and extreme weather’. It is the easy adoption of the controversial in such reportage that raises your ire. The turning of mystery, the unproven, into fact through casual assertions.
Surely the reason that the Today presenter failed to challenge Network Rail’s claim that it needs billions more to make its network resilient to climate change and extreme weather is that the BBC took a decision in 2007 to deliberately bias its reporting against climate change scepticism. Given the World Service’s global reach, the sainted BBC is significantly responsible for the vile propaganda in support of impoverishing the world in the name of addressing an imaginary emergency.
The GBN report referred to them hiring lots of drainage workers which I think confirms what we have heard here that a failure to maintain the track drainage systems has caused an increase in landslides over recent years.
Here in the deep south of England, it has been much wetter than usual, although this year does not compare with the start of 2014, which was a monsoon. Groundwater flooding in 2014 was extensive and exceptional and has thankfully not been matched this year.
I remember 2014 not because it affected me but because it closed the A22 south from Purley as emergency pumps were used to prevent flooding at a water treatment plant and I could see all the pipes running under Purley station to a sunken pedestrian area outside Tesco being used as a water storage area. Had I moved to where I live now I would have been cut off by flood water.
meanwhile, Guardian today with an extremely long winded and emotional article about 2021 floods in Belgium due to catastrophic climate change
The life and death of Rosa Reichel: the brilliant girl who was swept away | Flooding | The Guardian
and also Network Rail to spend £3 billion to protect the railway from the effects of the climate crisis and extreme weather, as it warned that the country’s network was having to contend with hotter summers and increased winter floods. Jumping on the climate crisis band wagon (more reliable than a train)
Network Rail to spend £2.8bn to cope with effects of climate crisis | Network Rail | The Guardian
also Alnmouth golf course disappearing due to climate crisis (those eroding cliffs look like typical east coast sandy soil to me)
‘Awful’: climate crisis threatens to sink historic north-east golf club | Northumberland | The Guardian
also
Butterfly study finds sharpest fall on record for small tortoiseshell in England | Butterflies | The Guardian “Rate of decline in 2023 thought to be linked to climate breakdown as UK-wide survey shows mixed picture across 58 species” of course it is!!
Hah – that story about Alnmouth is a real joke. The whole area around the mouth of the river is sand – and was considerably rearranged by a storm in 1806, which split Church Hill from the main part of the town by diverting the river to a new course. Just as in Norfolk and other places, soft sediments along the coast get eroded and moved by the sea. Situation normal. Absolutely nothing to do with any fictitious “climate crisis”. The usual Guardian drivel.
My MP’s monthly news letter claims that the Environment Agency has informed him that this February’s rainfall was 280% higher than “normal”. From the data herein it looks as though 40-50% is the most likely. This is outrageous lying by a governmental department. I have copied this post to him but I am also going to addess him about his credulity. Anyone should be instantly suspicious of a claim like that – hundreds of percentage changes just don’t happen.
I have defunded the BBC and their garbage is no longer watched in my household. I made the decision that I did not want to be part of the corruption of funding a misinformation program on behalf of the political elite who have an interest in promoting the diatribe they do. There is no climate emergency, its bollox and anyone with half a brain cell and even a modicum of meteorological knowledge will know the same.