What Heatwave?
By Paul Homewood
h/t Graham Worthington
I hope you did not blink, otherwise you may have missed it!
Brits are set to bask in a ’72 hour’ heatwave, according to some forecasters, but not everyone will be feeling the heat as two parts of England are expected to miss out on the sizzling temperatures.
Weather maps reveal that while many will enjoy a mini April heatwave, some will still face April showers. According to WX Charts, which uses Met Desk data for its predictions, temperatures could soar to a balmy 21C at times this month.
The charts indicate that Londoners can expect to enjoy highs of 20C from today until Saturday, with East Anglia and the East Midlands not far behind at 19C. Cities like Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, and Sheffield are also set to experience a warm 18C.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/72-hour-heatwave-hit-parts-28989573
Sure enough temperatures reached 21C in Essex, but I don’t know anyone who would actually describe this as a heatwave:
https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1779284662742868169
A real April heatwave would look like the one in 1949:
And even that pleasantly warm Saturday weather has already gone, with temperatures already plummeting:
I wonder if this was another of the clown Jim Dale’s forecasts?
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
For a consideration, Richard Betts and the MET Office will find one of their special level 5 observing stations demonstrating any temperature, rainfall, windspeed that you care to choose.
Hot, torrential, foggy, hurricane conditions? Why not? Only a bit more expensive.
Yesterday, [insert name of geographical area] had its [insert consequence of weather] for [insert time period] since [insert long sounding time frame].
Writtle, quoted above, is Class 4 and (in)accurate to a 2°C margin. Manston (also quoted above) is the nearest Class 1 site but only registered 20.1°C at that time. Funny that eh?
Here is the current satellite image of Writtle from google maps (red kite marks the site). Compare that image to the one shown by the Late Tim channon on Tallbloke’s website here. He reckoned it was Class 4 back then as the Met Office themselves assess it, BUT, you can clearly see they have not maintained the adjacent shrub growth which is now far too close to the site the site . Should be downgraded to class 5 if they do not take remedial action.
“Temperatures of -3C forecast to follow UK’s hottest day of the year so far
Met Office says parts of Scotland could be below freezing overnight despite temperatures on Saturday as high as 21.8C in Essex”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/13/temperatures-of–3c-forecast-to-follow-uks-hottest-day-of-the-year-so-far
To be fair (why should I be, you may ask), my central heating did turn itself off yesterday for a while and I did leave the greenhouse and polytunnel doors open for part of the day. But the central heating is back on this morning.
I turned my CH off at the start of the month – used to be 1 May – and rely on the stove I had fitted at the end of 2022 for heating. I didn’t need to light it yesterday evening but a clue as to why that might be is that it was sunny all day and that makes a difference to how warm my house is. Crazy to think that the sun plays some part in providing us with warm but there you go. I have only needed one morning’s boost from the stove so far. Since March 2015 the latest I have lit a fire has been 11 June.
A ‘sizzling’ 19°C for a few hours was quite pleasant 😄
I think ‘clown’ is wrong. Clowning requires enormous energy, fathomless wit and instantaneous audience reaction sampling. If you consider Commedia del Arte, Punchinello and Punch and Judy you have centuries of social tradition to maintain. ‘Idiot’ – idiocy is involuntary and I believe there’s a Greek translation “private person” which is a sympathetic definition. I can do no better than “wilfully misleading ignoramus”.
Of course, even Justin Lowrat is welcome to his own, private, Reality – Denier views.
But not his own “Facts”.
And the more “Private” the better. I really don’t want to pay the BBC to broadcast his stupid, fact-free thoughts ever again.
The met office seems to be constantly forecasting things about two days ahead and then changing it when it doesn’t happen.
I think the UK is suffering an effect at the moment of a climate experiment of seeding the upper atmosphere with some particulate matter. There is a perpetual upper atmosphere haze, contrails persist and the sun appears hazy. Also does anybody else think the sky is not so blue as it was?
No.
No heatwave in Cheshire, or maybe I blinked.
Are we being treated to the ultimate cynicism? Do they see propaganda value of forward predicting their klymutt BS to get it into the news not caring a jot if it happens or not ( of course they hope because the perverts they are they WANT people to suffer). As it did not happen will they be brought to book? Not a chance so this was a win for the cause because “some” people will remember the prediction as fact.
I’ve been away working outside for a few days, and I’m desperately trying to work out what day or days this supposed “heat wave” was SUPPOSED to be. The first day I got absolutely soaked and cold, the second day we nearly got blown away … and cold and the third day … was OK in three layers … so long as I was doing continual heavy exercise.
Am I missing something?
Can you ever have just a nice day?
EVERYTHING is political now.
Dont be silly, it’s not a Heatwave !!
It’s a “Vast wall of heat to engulf UK“
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/vast-wall-heat-engulf-uk-28993821?ruid=95ba4079-f10a-4124-ae41-e6a67e2aa7c1
Across the UK, the Mirror is reporting that parts of the country could see a ‘mini-heatwave’ after temperatures reached 21C in London on Friday.
Look, dammit, you must first have HEAT before it can be a heatwave.
I’ve got HEAT…
The Rayburn is running & the log burner is going well.
Used to have a Jones, (like a Rayburn), but a wee bit different from Carron (Falkirk) great ironworks. Anthracite, too!
Has it stopped raining yet, or got above 15degC? Thought not
The plain facts are that rapid temperature changes in April are quite normal. If the wind is blowing from the North or East it gets cold, if it’s blowing from the South it gets warm. If it’s blowing from the West it gets middling but often very wet. Absolutely nothing to do with “climate change”, even if that existed – which it doesn’t