The last 17 monthly mean temperature in the UKUK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. have all been above the 1981-2010 LTALTA Long Term Average. This is usually defined as a 30 year period by the WMO. in the gridded climate data series from the UKMOUKMO The Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. I’m sure we are going to hear a lot more about this particularly salient fact in the next few weeks, so I thought I would spend some time and write a viewer that displayed consecutive mean temperatures. I think I’ve come up with the best solution to visualise spells of above or below average climatic values, be they means of temperature, or totals of precipitation or sunshine.
It’s certainly true that there hasn’t been a longer, more incredible, spell of consecutive warm months in the gridded series since 1884, although there have been a couple of longer runs of consecutive cold months. The period between March 1885 and September 1886 saw 19 consecutive cold months for example. There are many ways of deriving statistics like this, using mean maximum or mean minimum, or perhaps changing the LTA.
