UK Regional Temperature Data

Rather than look at climate data for a single station for month, season or year, I thought it might be useful if you could look at climate data for all available stations for a specific region. It’s easy enough to filter stations for a particular region using their WMOWMO The World Meteorological Organisation is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics. number, that’s supposing there are enough stations in that region to calculate a meaningful value for. So for 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., I can now look at temperatures and anomalies for England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, or for the whole of them combined, for any given period. It’s crude, but more effective that you might think. The above charts are for the three months prior to Christmas Day 2024 for the whole of the UK and Ireland, in this case that’s data from an average 136 stations each day, which excludes all stations of 300M amslAMSL The height Above Mean Sea Level. and above. I’ll get back to you on accuracy of this simple method, when I’ve run some verification tests against regional 1.5 km gridded data 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.

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