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Latest 12 month UK Climate averages

Mean temperatures 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. in the 12 months to the end of January have fallen back a little and are now just a shade below the 10°C level. Twelve month UK rainfall totals continue to bounce back (98% of the LTALTA Long Term Average. This is usually defined as a 30 year period by the WMO.), and are now over 1100 mm, up from the lows of below 1000 mm that were seen in last years the dry spell. UK 12 month sunshine totals continue well above the one standard deviation level (111% of the LTA), and above 1500 hours for the fourth consecutive month.

The climate of the UK is considerably warmer, slightly wetter and much sunnier than it was back in 1993.

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2022 not the warmest 12 months on record

If you spend some time grubbing around 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. gridded temperature 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 that extends back to the year 1884 as I do, you might find that the highest mean temperature for a 12 month period didn’t actually occur in the year 2022, but the 12 month period that ended in April 2007. The mean temperature of 10.41°C was considerably higher than that of 10.03°C for 2022 that has been bandied about so much in recents days by the media.
There’s no reason to think that the UKMO weren’t aware of this fact, but they obviously kept shtum about it, not wanting to detract from making an even bigger splash with a headline “Warmest year on record” or the climate crisis version of it “Hottest year ever!“.

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Latest 12 Month UK climate averages

  • Temperature across 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., in the gridded 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 over the last 12 months have peaked, and fell back a little in December, without achieving the dizzy heights of 2007.
  • Rainfall has made a hesitant recovery after the dry winter and spring of 2022.
  • Average 12 month sunshine across the UK is still nudging upwards.
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The Climate of Northern Scotland since 2000

Dear Diary,
I thought that I would take a quick look at what the climate has been doing since 2000 closer to home by means of 12 month moving averages of the gridded climate data for the North of Scotland and which I download from the Met OfficeUKMO 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. Mean temperatures have edged fractionally warmer in the last 20 years, whilst annual precipitation has slightly decreased by 6mm per decade, sunshine has increased by 15 hours per decade. Nothing for Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation to get overly worked up about there then, but linear trends can be deceptive though, and I really should have used a thirty, and not a twenty year period, but what the hell, no one is reading this anyway.

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