I see you didn’t back up your “warmer nights” with anything. Noted by everyone, I’m sure. And neither did you apologise to Stewart either.

Now, for the UK and climate change. Yes, I like facts too. Do you remember what was said? “The UK can expect hotter, drier summers, and wetter winters”. Mary, reading between your rather amusing lines and comments on conspiracies, I’m picking up that sometimes, just sometimes, you may visit the Met Office’s web site. Am I right, Mary? You get your warming figures from GISS, but your UK temps from the Met. Is that right Mary? Why again? Oh yes, I remember. Nasty old HadCrut. Anyhoo…next time take a look at the chart for summer and winter precipitation (that’s rain, Mary). What will you see there? What you’ll see is a complete reversal of that predicted. Since 1980, rainfall has increased in summer, and decreased in winter. No need of a conspiracy, Mary. It’s all there for you to read. If you cannot, then ask your teacher to read it out to the class.

“GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
Global Temperature Trends: 2007 Summation
The year 2007 tied for second warmest in the period of instrumental data, behind the record warmth of 2005, in the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) analysis. 2007 tied 1998, which had leapt a remarkable 0.2°C above the prior record with the help of the “El Niño of the century”. The unusual warmth in 2007 is noteworthy because it occurs at a time when solar irradiance is at a minimum and the equatorial Pacific Ocean is in the cool phase of its natural El Niño-La Niña cycle.

From the Met Office
“July 2008
Mean temperatures ranged from close to average across SW England and S Wales to over 1 deg C above average across Scotland. Rainfall was generally above or well above average across Northern Ireland, England and Wales, but close to average across East Anglia. Rainfall over Scotland ranged from below average across the north-west to above average across the south-east. Sunshine was generally close to average across the UK.”

And finally ladies and gentlemen the mean temperatures for the British summer of 2007: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/2007/summer/maps/TMean_Anomaly%20No%20Stations.jpg

These are the facts [snip]

As for the UK, 2006 was warmest, then 1990 and 1999, then 1949, then 2002, then 1997, then 1995, then 1989 and 2003, then 1959, 2004 and 2007. So please desist from posting such stuff on the internet.

As for this year’s UK “warmer nights”, I laughed so much I knocked my warming cocoa over. Warmer nights!!! It’s been the evenings and nights that have been so cool – that’s why condensation has occurred on the inside of windows, and heating systems have sprung into action by themselves when air thermostats have kicked in. My point anyway, was that the CET figures don’t reflect this cooling, suggesting urban island heat effect on the recording stations. Where I live – in the south of England and away from an urban area – the temperature has been very cool for July and August. Yet the CET shows 16.2 degrees C for July. But certainly not feeling like it at all.

And Stewart is correct. The UK most certainly has not had a “typical summer” at all. I think I may have a few years on you, and “typical” is a few hot days and then a storm – that’s the norm for all the decades I’ve been here. The Met Office did indeed forecast a hot summer 2007. I was arguing that point on a blog back then with very many others. Even those who were pro-warming were admitting that the Met had got it wrong, but said that they couldn’t have foreseen the Jet Stream movement. So Stewart is completely correct on all three points. I think you owe him an apology.

“1. A hot summer last year for the UK
2. 2007 to be the warmest year ever globally
3. A typical UK summer for 2008

All three were wrong, and yet they continue to embarrass themselves by spewing more nonsensical GW propaganda.”

Comrade Stewart-
Some points to quell your revolutionary fires against those that conspire against us (don’t forget your tin foil cap…they could be listening!Your points:
1- Where did you get ‘hot’ summer from, it was however warmer than average last year.
2- based on surface temperatures 2007 was either the warmest or second warmest, still very warm compared to average.
3- Typical UK summer- UK covers N. Ireland Scotland and Wales so is a broad spread but it is very typical I’m afraid. The south east of England has had a few good spells of weather whilst the north and, especially the west, has had slightly below average temperatures but higher rainfall than average.
The UK is in many ways a specialcase, it is influenced by weather from the Arctic, the Atlantic and contuinental europe as well as warm water from the Gulf Stream and the ending point of the jet stream. If a high pressure system is in the wrong place and sticks, then this spell of weather stays around for a while, described as the low pressure cannon elswehere in this blog.
ie…Its normal!!

All three were wrong, and yet they continue to embarrass themselves by spewing more nonsensical GW propaganda.”

And after every single embarassing forecast screw-up they employ revisionism and get backed up by climate scientists. Meteorologists stay silent.

Will you please stop putting this sensationalistic conspirital guff on the blogs. The fact the rain has been more persistant (and not the usual heavy summer showers) shows there is a lot more cloud and this means warmer nights. All thats happened in the last two summers is the jet stream is a lot further south than it usually is, you can see this nicely on the SST map of the Atlantic where the increased cloud and wind have produced a cooling anomoly probably as a result of the recent La Nina. http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/anomnight.8.14.2008.gif
This kind of summer is not that unusual and is part of Britains rich meteorological history (nice to see the Ozzy’s getting cold weather, about time too!)

According to this, Vancouver is in Oregon as well…

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2006/nov/novemberext2006.html

I just went looking for records and found this:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2007/jan/jan-dailyext2007.html

Take a look at the box for January 1, 2007.

Maybe this explains part of the problem with the surface record?

Thursday may have hit 103, but the humidity was only 22%. Not bad at all. My 32-mile commute home from Camas to Aloha was almost tolerable (no AC in my Jeep).