Spring

The warm and cold spell of spring 2024

Spring 2024 saw a very warm spell from approximately the 8th to the 20th of May with anomalies across northern Scotland of +7°C, followed quickly by a cold spell, from the 4th to 12th of June with anomalies of -5°C. 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 thought little of both spells, despite May ending up the warmest since records began in 1883. They argued that the cold spell wasn’t that unusual, or as cold as the temperatures in many recent years, despite the fact that snow fell on ground above 800 M in Scotland for at least five consecutive days. They didn’t seem to want to factor in that the cold spell had occurred at a time when global temperatures were 1.54°C above the pre-industrial age or that North Atlantic SSTSST Sea Surface Temperatures are at record levels. What a strange attitude to take. 😮

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Spring [MAM] 2024 – UK Correlations

According to gridded climate 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, 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. was warmer and wetter than average, as well as being warmer and duller than average in Spring [MAMMAM Meteorological Spring comprising the months of March, April & May] of 2024.

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2024 : Spring has sprung

I estimate the first day of spring in Central England this year occurred on the 8th of February, that’s 42 days earlier than the accepted date for Spring of around March 21st depending on the exact date and time of the vernal equinox. That made it the joint seventh earliest spring in the CETCET Central England Temperature record back to 1772. I use the average number of degree days from 1773 to 1802 to calculate a baseline to estimate the date with. Not a brilliant method. let me know if you can think of a better one. The last late spring, and the only one to occur in this century was in 2010. The linear trend reveals that springs are now arriving 24 days earlier than they did in 1772. Apologies for the late arrival of this story 😉

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