From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
JULY 18, 2022
By Paul Homewood
Brendan O’Neill:
The unhinged eco-dread over the heatwave exposes how millenarian environmentalism has become.
If you find yourself wondering over the next few days why it is so swelteringly hot, I have an answer for you. It’s because of rich people. It’s because of those wealthy elites with all their gas-guzzling vehicles and reckless holidaymaking. It’s their fault you’re sweating on the Tube.
This infantile claim really is being made, and by supposedly serious politicians. Labour’s Richard Burgon, over on his Instagram account, is wringing his no doubt sweaty hands over the filthy rich folk who apparently landed us in this weather apocalypse.
‘As we face 40C temperatures and the first ever Red Extreme Heat Warning, remember this climate crisis is driven by the wealthy’, he cries. His stern words are accompanied, naturally, by that Met Office map showing half of Britain coloured dark red – the hellish hue that has been chosen to illustrate how dire our predicament has allegedly become.
Is anyone else tiring of all this green hysteria over the heatwave? There is something medieval about it. There is something creepily pre-modern in the idea that sinful mankind has brought heat and fire and floods upon himself with his wicked, hubristic behaviour. What next – plagues of locusts as a punishment for our failure to recycle?
The unhinged eco-dread over the heatwave exposes how millenarian environmentalism has become. Climate-change activism is less and less about coming up with practical solutions to the problem of pollution and more about demonising mankind as a plague on a planet, a pox on Mother Earth. These people really do view hot weather as an indictment of humanity, and a forewarning of the imminent heat death of our world that we’ve brought about with all our evil pollution and consumption.
They’re all at it. Caroline Lucas says, ‘The climate emergency is right here, right now’. One observer describes Europe as a ‘continent on fire’ – which just isn’t true, is it? – and says the hot weather is proof of ‘the ravages of climate change’. The words ‘heatwave hell’ are appearing everywhere, and many in the opinion-forming set know exactly who’s responsible for this hell: me and you and everyone else who has dared to live modern, technological lives.
This isn’t the first time a weather event has been depicted as a hell of man’s own making. When the latest IPCC report was published last year, hell talk was widespread. ‘If we do not halt our emissions soon, our future climate could well become some kind of hell on Earth’, said an Oxford prof. And of course we brought all this fiery punishment upon ourselves just as surely as Sodom and Gomorrah invited God’s divine retribution by being so perverted. We are ‘guilty as hell’, the Guardian’s environment editor cried, sounding for all the world like one of those crackpot millenarian preachers you’d see on street corners in the old days.
To my mind, there could be no better proof that climate-change activism has become an End of Days cult than the fact that its chief ideologues are now even incapable of enjoying hot weather. They feel the sun’s rays on their faces and all they can think about is the Armageddon that the modern masses have created with their cheap flights and their 4X4s and their addiction to disposable fashion.
When you see everything as a sign, as further proof of your own apocalyptic belief system, you have a problem.
Let’s have some perspective. Propagandistic terms like ‘extreme weather’ and ‘Weather of Mass Destruction’ are meant to whip up fear in the populace every time there’s sunshine or floods. And yet, as Bjorn Lomborg points out, the number of people dying in climate-related disasters has plummeted spectacularly over the past hundred years.
In the 1920s, close to 500,000 people died every year in storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves. In 2020, just 14,000 people died as a result of such natural calamities. That means global annual deaths from climate disasters have fallen by 96 per cent. The modernity that eco-warriors so disdain has actually helped to protect humanity from the violent whims of Mother Nature.
Lomborg also points out that in most parts of the world, cold deaths ‘vastly outweigh’ heat deaths. So while the warming of the planet might increase heatwaves, it will reduce coldwaves. Which will be very good for human life. Are we allowed to look on the bright side anymore?
This isn’t the first time extreme weather events have been blamed on wicked human beings, whether it’s Richard Burgon’s wealthy elites or just people in general driving their diesel cars and taking two easyJet flights a year. No, in the Middle Ages, too, scapegoats were often sought whenever there was a scary climatic event.
As the German historian Wolfgang Behringer has documented, in the 14th and 15th centuries ‘unnatural climatic phenomena’ were often blamed on ‘a great conspiracy of witches’. During the Little Ice Age in particular, when crops failed in many parts of Europe, there was a frenzy of witch-hunting. Some in society ‘held the witches directly responsible for the high frequency of climatic anomalies’.
Sound familiar? I definitely hear echoes of that old, regressive belief that sinister people are responsible for weird weather in today’s attempt to pin heatwaves on the rich or on coal-mining or on motorists. Environmentalism has rehabilitated in pseudo-scientific form the age-old instinct to find the witch or the sinner who is to blame for society’s misfortunes.
Everyone needs to calm down. We’re safer from weather than we have ever been. It’s sunny. Go outside. Sit in the shade. Have an ice-cream.
Predicting Armageddon has a long history. I cannot be typing this as I died of famine in the early 1970’s.
I assume that you were wearing a sandwich board that said, “The World Ends Tomorrow!”
Thankfully, you ate your sandwich board for sustenance and survived the 70s to make it to the present.
I remember 1988 being the “last possible year.”
In England that was 1987 and the Fish Hurricane.
The only decent summers I can remember in the UK; 1947, 1955, 1976, 2003 – only a handful in 80 years.
1976 is the one everyone remembers. But, as you mentioned, there were plenty of really nice summers before that, and since. I got serious sunstroke (my own stupidity) in the early 1980s, can’t remember the exact year but possibly ’83/’84. I live in Dublin.
Certainly, the hysteria about the ”record breaking” high temps, over the last couple of days, has the alarmists wetting themselves, they have never been happier. The chorus of ”we told you so, this is what we have been warning you about…” is getting well worn out. Our national broadcaster even dug up Monbiot to tell us we are all doomed unless we eat insects.
Monbiot was as happy as a sand boy when the Somerset levels flooded – saying his predictions etc. The facts were that the Environment Agency (old NRA) failed to dredge the river Parrett so as not to upset the water voles. In 1960 the river was 60 feet wide and dredged but at the time of flooding 55 years later was a mere 12 feet wide and silted
Maybe 1959 the year Lady Bower Dam (in Derbyshire) dried up and we could see the village flooded in 1910 at the bottom – eerie.
My sister and Brother in law live in Bermuda where temperatures into the 40’s are frequent.
I’m assuming they died several decades ago, but I keep getting calls and emails from her.
I’m guessing she’s a Biden voter.
HotScott, that is one of the funniest comments I’ve ever seen! Well done, sir.
You should read more.
Don they call you “Phew what a scorcher Scot” now . Personally I called today a mid summer climate optimum and was happy as a bungee jumping walrus without a bungee.
Apparently you have not been outside.
Have you 😉
It’s fine outside where I live.
That’s great. Let’s base global cliate polcy on where you live.
Why not? Gavin Schmidt said the only climate that matters is where you live.
cliate polcy
I believe there’s a cream for that nowadays.
Me too, here in south Central Illinois, even though they are calling for plus 100 F today and tomorrow, too. It’s all in what you are used to. Having been raised as a boy in central and west Texas, 100 F is considered normal for the summer time! I also lived in the ‘deadly’ heat of Southern California for 30+ years, where temps like this are ALSO considered normal, in the Summer time! We never started to fret (Sweat? oh yes!) too much until it got over 120 F or so. Even so, the temps have been whole lot higher in the past.
Stay in the shade, out of the sun, and wait. It will soon pass and you’ll be WISHING for that warm weather!
Plenty of panic stricken alarmists may never go outside ever again. With any luck. Stay cool.
Why your question?
Do you mean that we can see (Greta’s 7th sense) CO2 and heat better outside than inside?
Or, let me put it another way:
I understand that you believe in “The Science”. My question is: do you also believe in thermometers? (or do you need to go outside to check, with your own eyes, if the thermometers are working well?)
I thought we were supposed to be buried under glaciers by now.
Yes. Many “scientists” told me that 50 years ago!… I guess that nature did not “follow The Science”.
Paraphrasing: so it is time to dismiss this nature and apoint a new one.
I wasn’t able to drive to work this morning because the world ran out of oil right before the year 2000.
Every news bulletin this evening has been screaming about the UK temperature being 40.3C at RAF Coningsby today, Heathrow being 40.2C – in fact, if you exclude airports and RAF airfields due to hot runways and aircraft, the hottest temperature was 39C. Sheer hysteria.
As to the wildfires reported – there have already been dozens of arrests across Europe for arson, there will be more in the UK, unless the Police are afraid of a lefty backlash.
Over 40°C and we would stop harvesting the grapes by lunch and go back in the late afternoon. We would work the whole day otherwise, carting the grapes. It’s hardly armegeddon.
Yes, it’s called ‘SUMMER”! Prudent people will stay OUT of the heat, while others will be out there, roasting and toasting! You would think that humans, being intelligent, (“???”) would have learned this by now! I guess modern AC has turned them all squishy and ignorant. This is why we have four season in most places. Just imagine if the earth did not turn on it’s axis! Half the planet would be boiling and the other half would be frozen solid. Which half would YOU prefer to live in? Well, at the fringes there would be something resembling the current, ‘normal’ climate.
London has reached 100 degrees F. several times before but they forgot to declare those days were an “armageddon”.
Honest global warming chart Blog: London reaches 100 degrees F. — They’re Having a Heatwave … in 2003, 1911, and several days in the 1800s (elonionbloggle.blogspot.com)
The one thing they forget is that, THIS, TOO, Shall pass! As with ALL forecast’s of doom!
“So while the warming of the planet might increase heatwaves, it will reduce coldwaves.”
Why do you say that? It seems to me that nature always tends towards the average. Heat waves in summer lead to cold waves in winter. But then I have no data for my view. Do you for yours?
Over what period of time do you calculate the average? For the past 10,000 years or so we have been in a warm period. For the next 90,000 years or so we will experience an ice age.
We’ve been in an ice age for about 2 million years.
So galloping Crisis global warming is not going to increase average temperatures in your view, DHR? The commenter you corrected was using logic, an old fashioned kind of thinking from the the 20th century and earlier.
Well I’ve got a computer and I am the very model of a modern major modeller so gotcha there! I’d give you the data except you’d only want to use it against me and my pals.
Where I live both the winters and summers have been milder. I guess we haven’t had heatwaves or coldwaves.
Where I live we had the 4th coldest April ever…we need more CO2.
Ignorant comment, DHR. Most of the 1 degree C warming the Earth has seen over the last century has been in winter and overnight temps. There’s a scientific reason for this, it’s the T^4 dependence on blackbody radiation (the Stefan – Boltzmann law). As the Earth warms it radiates more energy to space but it only takes a little warming to increase the amount of outgoing radiation by a lot. Peak summer temps are therefore more limited than winter temps.
The alarmists’ schtick that global warming causes global cooling is a flat lie.
On average, we’re all going to be dead.
In 100 years or so. During which time the earth and it’s living beings will mostly still be alive. Luckily, the ‘Warmist’s’ will almost all have died, too!
That’s the Gambler’s Fallacy. There is no force that drives a random process to the average. The average just is. A roulette wheel that you watch come up red 13 times out of 20 spins doesn’t “have” to come up black 13 time out of the next 20 to even things out. Don’t bet the house on black.
” It seems to me that nature always tends towards the average. Heat waves in summer lead to cold waves in winter.”
What happened to the possibility that a somewhat warmer world on average, could just lead to somewhat warmer summers and winters, if “nature always tends towards the average”? Why assume an increase in all sorts of extremes (waves), if that’s not how nature ever tends to “behave”?
I reckon the world must be cooling down at an alarming rate.
There have never been so many snowflakes floating about, even in heatwave conditions.
It’s getting to the point where there are so many lies from propaganda media that it can’t keep its stories straight. Last night CBS News hyped the UK heat wave as Climate Change because it had NEVER EVER been this hot there. Later during the weather, the forecaster noted that the temperature in the UK was only one degree lower than the all time record high.
The >40C figure was expected over the course of the 2-day heat wave. It arrived today, alongside wildfires that the London Fire Service have declared a ‘major incident’. Maybe, if wee Brendan lives around London, he can grab a bucket of water and go give them a hand. Or maybe he thinks it’s fake news.
Where did it arrive?
I happen to live in London – fires need ignition…
>40C has (so far) been provisionally reported at 3 locations. Coningsby, Kew Gardens and Heathrow. That was the 3pm update though; most temperature records in the UK arrive between 3-5pm. Agree fires need ignition. They also need fuel, which in this case is tinder dry.
That comes as no surprise whatsoever
Very keen and not sound, either
Ah, Coningsby. Learnt about sidewinders there watching phantoms take off on full reheat on balmy summer afternoons. You may have missed that this website has done much investigation in the siting of weather measurement instruments. Airports aren’t ideal
Where do you think the weather station is located at Coningsby?
The weather station at RAF Coningsby, in common with other RAF airfields and civilian airports, is located immediately adjacent to the runway – it has to be to give pilots the most accurate information on landing/takeoff.
Bingo!
Yes, “the most accurate information on landing/takeoff”at THAT particular location! A mile or two away from ‘that location’ would give a much different reading! So why would people who are NOT inside an aircraft or sitting in their nicely AC’d homes even CARE what the temperature is, AT THE AIRPORT? Yet, this is the BS that the MSM is blabbering about, telling us the end of the world is here! I suppose if the thermometers were inside the furnace at a nearby steel plant, they’d say the earth has already burned to a crisp?
airport measurements ?…. no thank you, they’re inflated
Even in our small, podunk regional airport, they reported temps of 85 F yesterday, as I was returning from a quick trip in my car, who’s reading said it was 81 degrees F! My car reads the same as all the thermometers in town. Very few aircraft fly in or out of our airport (mostly just medivacs), yet we are forced to hear and rely on THEIR readings!
Incorrect. Kew Gardens recorded a maximum temperature today of 39C. Heathrow airport, Humberside airport, Robin Hood airport and about 8 active RAF stations, including RAF Coningsby, RAF Waddington and others, all reported temperatures around 40C whilst temperature stations not associated with RAF airfields or airports recorded their highest temperatures of 39C. I would suggest, as I have done before, that using temperature stations next to busy runways, covered in jet exhaust, as accurate records of ambient air temperature is stupidity at it’s most blatant and ridiculous.
Then you know better than the Met Office. Of course you do.
I’m interested to know how long these temps prevailed.
Are we talking hours, minutes, seconds, or like the BoM does in Australia – micro seconds?
As far as I know, these tempertures are from automated stations averaged over an hour. So the 3pm update would be the average temps at any particular station between 2-3pm.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/how-forecasts-are-made/observations/weather-stations
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Let say I believe you and so your doomed … you convinced me.
So what do you expect to happen next because CO2 emissions are going to continue to rise … nothing short of devine intervention or an invasion of China and India is going to stop that.
What will happen? I’ll tell you: MORE green plants, better yields, and over all, a MUCH better planet to live on! So far, we don’t know of even one that is better than earth, for us humans. As for warming, well, science reveals that CO2 does NOT cause warming. That is the number one lie the Warmist’s are pushing! MILLIONS of people accept that as gospel, though. Are you one of them?
Ah no – and I think I may have answered my own question above. Except for the BOM in Australia, most temperature stations take regular readings and average three or five consecutive readings around the maximum temperature, not across the whole hour, so a temperature would be recorded (averaged) across a 3 or 5 minute period, eliminating sudden heat spikes. BOM just uses a single high reading so incorporates possible spikes into their data.
I can’t understand why people will give negative’s to someone who is merely stating a fact, or even a good guess. Most of the negatives are quite good, in fact! I guess some people just want to be negative.
UHI is estimated at about 3 degrees (peak Summer) in London. Kew gardens is Central London.Don’t know what the UHI would have been when they registered 100 deg F in 9th August, 1911 at Greenwich Observatory, near the River Thames.
Nobody knows exactly what the UHI is at any given time – the studies done show that it varies slightly from day to day and season to season and is different for each location. Which is why using a set algorythm or adjustment is complete rubbish and not worth doing at all. It’s about time that money was set aside out of the lavish research grants to establish paired temperature stations – the ones in existence today, utterly contaminated by UHI, and a nearby rural station, outside of the UHI microclimate.
While readings from the middle of a city MIGHT be useful to it’s residents, it is of less use to those who do NOT reside there. Perhaps a series of readings taken from several locations would be more useful if they are averaged together, and then mention the highs in the city.
Yes, I saw those temperatures up on the Met Office site today and they surprised the hell out of me. Yesterday evening, when I checked the temperatites recorded at St James Park and Kew Gardens they both showed a high of 39C for the 1500 hours period, now they show a high of 40.2C and 40.1C respectively – what the hell? Why did 2 sites give the same temperature at the same time differently? I’m keenly awaiting a logical, non-conspiracy theory reply please.
MetO proved many times that likely everyone knows better than the Met Office.
Really! And the reports of airport runways ‘melting’ in the heat are a primary example! Tarmac is made from the stuff left over after all the good stuff, (gasoline, diesel, etc.) is removed, in other words TAR, which melts at quite low temps. Build your runways and highways using something more resistant to heat!
In other news: Chicken Littles report “In 12 years, the world will end from Global Warming”
Yeah that is about how I feel with these retards … they are doomed now off you go little ones.
Isn’t that doom down to 9 years away now?
It has been 100F in other years in London too,
Real Climate Science
100 Degrees In London
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ToeFungalNail,
It’s a two day heat wave. The London forecast is nice weather tomorrow and a return to typical London weather in the 70s in just two days. The simple fact is that NO heat wave can be blamed on Global Warming. Heat waves are a natural phenomena that have always happened. The weather is highly variable. You might be able to make the case that a heat wave in the present time could be one or two degrees hotter than it would have been a hundred years ago, that’s all.
Two hot days that might be two degrees warmer than a century ago is not a climate crisis by any stretch of the imagination. Get a grip.
And 2 hot days are not a heat wave. Even wiki mentions 5 days to make a heat wave, along with all the leftist false blather about there having been more due to “climate change”.
There are lesser numbers of days for the definition, easily discernable by the leftistness of the organization defining the term. The farther left, the shorter the number of days.
Any logical and rational person would not call 2 hotter than normal days surrounded by “normal” temperature periods of MANY days as a “heat wave”
But, then, we are not speaking about ‘rational people’ when we discuss the ‘Warming’ of the planet!
Hahaha…hopefully you will live.
Today in Dallas, TX the prediction is the record high temp for the day will be broken. The record high is 108 set in? 1910. Last month Dallas tied a record high set in? 1911. The CO2 worshipping local Climate Change meteorologist loons were orgasmic.
In 1910-11 the population was 92k v well over a million today. Most of the city was residential as opposed to today’s wide spread buildings and higways. Very few autos and no airplanes in 1910-11 and that dastardly CO2 was around 300 ppm v 420 ppm today
Almost every temperature record for the area was set in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
My area of Oklahoma has had 14 straight days over 100F. It will be 108F today.
The record for 100F days was set at 22 days in a row in 1934 and 1936.
We may get close to that record again this year. It’s shaping up to be a hot summer.
The hottest part of the summer is between now and August 15, so we have a ways to go.
I need to correct a couple of numbers.
The longest steak of 100F days took place in 1934 with 27 days in a row. Then there was the year 1936, and 1954, that each had 24 days in a row with 100F temperatures.
This year may get close to the 24 day number, although I did see a 98F day in among the 100F days in the coming week so maybe the streak will be broken by a 98F day.
The temperature was 108F yesterday. The temperature this morning at 630am is 88F.
We need a tropical storm. The high pressure system keeping us hot is supposed to move towards the east coast in the next week or so which would place it just right for bringing up a tropical storm out of the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately, it looks like hurricanes and tropical storms are having a hard time forming this year.
Yesterday a friend repeated a news item saying that Monday London was likely to be hotter than Saudi Arabia. So I checked – highs Monday – London 101 F (38 C) Riyadh – 112 F (44 C).
Slight correction. The Telegraph reports today’s temperature ((19th) as 40.2 or 104.4 . at Heathrow airport where a three-day strike is promised.
ah yes. stack the deck with airport measurements. Doesn’t work for me.
Journalist’s, and especially meteorologists, are well known for outright lying! It’s in their gene’s, you know. They have to invent ‘news’ or slant it to make you think it’s important. Better to rely on your own senses. That, and some basic research. Any time the news tells you is’t the hottest it’s ‘EVAH’ been, you know they are likely to be lying. Just sayin…
How anyone can watch these pukes on ‘TV NEWS’ is beyond me. I could not last 1min.
I can honestly say that some years back I enjoyed and trusted our local weather forecaster on ch12. I was disappointed when he left the “air”. Now I admire why he did so. I am talking about our own Anthony Watts🙂
Presuming that the temperature data being reported come from ground stations, it is foolish to proclaim “all-time high temperatures” based upon only about 140 years of surface temperature observations. Not only is this a ridiculously short period over which to judge anything to do with climate, but population growth and its influence over the heat island effect naturally creates a false impression of wide-scale warming.
Mike that’s exactly why they do it! When one is peddling BS you must have something that scares the begeesus out of people. Hot weather, in the summer time, will do it every time! Just inflate the numbers a bit and use words like ‘highest evah’! There, you got it!
I think we need another witch hunt, this time for the green ones.
Beat me to it. Does Greta qualify?
Does she have a broom stick ?
The question is, who put sandpaper on her broomstick?
“As we face 40C temperatures and the first ever Red Extreme Heat Warning, remember this climate crisis is driven by the wealthy”
First, this is a weather station at one of the world’s largest airports in one of the world’s largest cities. That’s probably where the previous 40C was measured. Maybe Anthony should have a look at location and comment (sat foto).
Second, the ultra-left (liberals and Tories have taken over the traditional labor political spot) is not wrong in blaming the ‘rich’ for the wretched state of the world because ‘climate change’. The weather is okay, but the billionaires are all on board with government policy bilking the poor and middle class with with ruinous renewables for a bogus marxists putsch.
“First, this is a weather station at one of the world’s largest airports in one of the world’s largest cities.”
From the BBC report
“Heathrow Airport was the first place to break the 40C mark, hitting 40.2C at 12:50 BST but several other places also passed 40C during the afternoon, including Gringley on the Hill in Nottinghamshire and St James’s Park, Kew Gardens and Northolt – all in London.”|
Seems to be a lot of varied places!
Are you still using that extra blanket instead of turning up the heat?
so England has become a bunch of limp dicks that can’t get thru 2 days of adverse weather. God help y’all if a real catastrophe ever comes down the road.
That’s interesting – Kew Gardens says its high today was 39C – in fact the only places recording temperatures over 39.7 today have been airports and active RAF stations. RAF Coningsby recorded 40.3 just after takeoff and Heathrow airport recorded 40.2 after a landing, I believe.
Well, here is the FT report:
“The UK experienced its highest ever temperature of 40.3C on Tuesday, according to the Met Office, as a heatwave gripped the country and caused widespread disruption on roads and railways and in the healthcare system.
The recording at Coningsby in Lincolnshire, 150 miles north of London, came as a large area of eastern and southern England suffered under extreme heat conditions. It eclipsed the previous all-time high of 38.7C set in Cambridge in 2019, and was almost matched in several parts of London, including Kew Gardens, Heathrow airport and St James’s Park, all of which recorded temperatures above 40C.”
Or Murdoch:
“A record-breaking high of 40.3C was recorded the Royal Air Force base of Coningsby in Lincolnshire in England’s east.
Heathrow Airport, south west of London, got to 40.2C That was then equalled in St James’ Park in central London close to Buckingham Palace. Kew Gardens, in west London, reached 40.1C.
Britain has never seen temperatures in the forties before. The previous high was 38.7C in Cambridge in 2019.”
The Manchester Evening News has a longer list of places exceeding 38.7C. They aren’t all airports:
3.12pm: Coningsby, Lincolnshire – 40.3
12.20pm: Heathrow, west London – 40.2
1.55pm: St James’s Park, central London – 40.2
3.26pm: Gringley-on-the-Hill, Nottinghamshire – 40.1
12.28pm: Kew Gardens, south west London – 40.1
12.39pm: Northolt, west London 40.0
1.29pm: Niab in Cambridge – 39.9
11.06pm: Charlwood, Surrey – 39.9
2.05pm: Cranwell, Lincolnshire – 39.9
3.30pm: Scampton, Lincolnshire – 39.9
2.37pm: Wittering, Cambridgeshire – 39.9
3.02pm: Bramham, West Yorkshire – 39.8
2.55pm: Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire – 39.8
2.07pm: Watnall, Nottinghamshire – 39.8
1.19pm: Bushey Park, Teddington, south west London – 39.6
3.08pm: Topcliffe North Yorkshire – 39.6
1.49pm: Woburn, Bedfordshire – 39.6
2.35pm: Bedford, Bedfordshire – 39.5
3.50pm: Normanby Hall, North Lincolnshire – 39.4
1.59pm: Sheffield, South Yorkshire – 39.4
2.28pm: Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire – 39.4
11.17pm: Wisely, Surrey – 39.3
11.39pm: Chertsey, Surrey – 39.2
1.39pm: Marham, Norfolk – 39.2
2.12pm: Holbeach, Lincolnshire – 39.1
2.01pm: Ryhill, West Yorkshire – 39.1
1.15pm: Writtle, Essex – 39.1
12.47pm: Santon Downham, Suffolk – 39.0
1.08pm: Wellesbourne, Warwickshire – 39.0
1.55pm: Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire – 38.9
12.20pm: Iver, Buckinhamshire – 38.9
1.04pm: Coleshill, Warwickshire – 38.8
1.24pm: High Beach, Essex – 38.8
2.57pm: Leeming, North Yorkshire – 38.8
Thanks Nick, I think it’s safe to say that the UK highest temperature record has been broken and that it will reset at above +40C.
Reality strikes.
What’s been unusual isn’t just whether it reached 40 or not, but how widespread it’s been. Usually record temperature is limited to a single place or so, which is why I’m not keen on concentrating on a single value.
But today, it was a very large part of the entire country beating their own records, and in many cases the overall record.
Look at any weather forum and it’s full of experienced weather watchers saying how extraordinary this has been.
Your ignorance of past weather history of England and other parts of the world hurts your credibility since there were other “heat waves” longer than this one and more widespread as well too.
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I said it was extraordinary, not that it was the longest lasting.
I don’t know much about the1911 summer to be fair. It certainly was hot for a long time, but was there a single day with anything like these temperatures across much of the country? It set a single max record that lasted until the 90s. But since then that record has been beating several times. In some places it set local records that were only beaten yesterday.
I wonder if WUWT in1976 would have been running articles claiming 1976 wasn’t extraordinary, because it hadn’t beaten the 1911 record?
Looking at CET for instance, the maximum for Aug 9th 1911 was 30.9°C. There was one ther day that year over 30.
In 2022 we have just had a CET max of 34.8, followed by 37.3. More than 6 degrees warmer than the 1911 maximum that was regarded as a deadly heatwave at the time.
Lets just deal with that first – all the temperatures recorded over 40C have been from next to a busy runway, covered in hot jet exhaust, or within the London UHI microclumate. This is not evidence of being widespread, but evidence that covering a weather station with jet exhaust, anywhere in England, gets you a warm temperature reading. If you had a single shred of decency or professionalism you’d treat airport and airfield temperatures with the contempt and disdain they deserve and just look at the areas away from the jets that recorded over 40C.
Deal with what? I said I don’t particularly care if a particular temperature was 40.1 or 39.9. it’s purely a psychological milestone. What I’m saying is that through an unusually large part of the country, stations were beating their own records.
“covering a weather station with jet exhaust, anywhere
in England, gets you a warm temperature reading”
I doubt that RAF stations nowadays are pouring out that much jet exhaust. But whatever, their airfield status hasn’t changed. What has changed is the air temperatures they are reporting.
Meh.
You have a record hot and you thinks it’s the new norm so learn to live with it … that is the reality because you can’t change the world.
“It’s hot, damn hot, so hot you can do a bit of crotch-pot cookin'”
Living where you do Nick, 40C in Jan – Feb summers wouldn’t raise any eyebrows.
And now 3C winter mornings also wouldn’t raise any eyebrows.
How come all the good burghers of Moyhu haven’t become “climate refugees” and gravitated to Coolangatta?
Maybe because Austraia has air-con in private and public buildings and has railway lines that can easily cope with >35C temps.
In the UK, we don’t have these things and it wil cost billions to install them. That’s why eyebrows are being raised.
Yeah but Oz can get several episodes of 40c at intervals from November to March.
UK – not so much . . .
It is actually quite easy to mitigate short heat waves, in the UK but that requires thought……
No most Australians just learn to live with the heat in many rural houses they have no air conditioning. If your right and this is the new norm you will just have to learn to adapt … start by drinking cold beer 🙂
You’re forgetting that a short time back Network Rail put forward a plan to electrify some of the UK’s railways to meet net zero targets. The cost was around £30 billion . The Government rejected the plans
Interesting, in other reports I’ve seen the Nottinghamshire temperature was recorded at Robin Hood airport.
UHI is the climateers’ friend.
“That’s probably where the previous 40C was measured.”
What previous 40? The previous record for the UK was 38.7°C, recorded in Cambridge back in 2019.
CO2 induced I am sure 😉
Of course, when cold weather is broken …it’s just weather.
Clown show indeed
Cambridge University Botanical Gardens, if I’m not mistaken?
Of course it’s all our fault- we’re dirty, grabbing capitalist pigs! It can’t possibly be China or India can it? I had this argument with a snowflake type at the weekend- I was stunned that this apparently intelligent young woman actually believed that stopping burning oil and gas in the UK would make any difference to anything, given how much developing countries use- she seemed to think that our weather was a direct result of what we do in the UK. Never mind whether it’s a big problem in the first place- she wouldn’t even discuss that- it was all, ‘Look at what we’re having to do- shut schools and offices, collect bins earlier, shelter indoors’, the list went on. I pointed out that weren’t doing those things because we HAD to, it was because we are a nation of snowflakes that over-react to everything and hide under the bed until The Government tells us we can come out. I asked if she realised that absolutely everything that she took for granted had been brought about by capitalism, which I am completely wrong about it seems. I also asked her if she was going out at all which of course she was, so bar staff, etc. were all expected to work of course. She just tutted and stormed off, which is the usual reaction of a snowflake when their delicate little world view is challenged. Interestingly, most of the middle aged or older folk I know, including a good few self-employed types, were enjoying the weather and pointing out that they’ll all be moaning about the cold soon enough. What a pathetic lot we’ve become- surviving war veterans must be wondering why they bothered…
Absolutely spot-on, Paul (and Brendan O’Neill). The doomsday religious cult had lost the plot completely. So many articles on the BBC today boosting the climate apocalypse nonsense! Ridiculous!
Why call it a “religious” cult? This seems to be an atheistic (no God or gods) cult to me . . You know, like communism and such?
You don’t need a deity for a religion. Greenism is a medieval religion. Full of high priests (eg, algore), prophets (eg, Mann), saints (eg, Greta), extreme hypocrisy of the elite, sale of indulgences (carbon offsets), virtue signalling and religious rituals (eg, sorting your recycling when most is just landfilled anyway). Fact-based data-driven science is ignored in favor of “feelings”.
It’s like the Enlightenment is rolling backwards.
All the hysteria just isn’t enough for some.
“In response to the apparent lack of enough alarmist press coverage of the heat wave in Britain, Extinction Rebellion climate change activists smashed windows of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s headquarters in London.
At around 6:30 on Tuesday morning, several eco-warriors gathered outside Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch’s News UK building at London Bridge, with two activists smashing glass windows with hammers, while others spray-painted “Tell the truth” and “40 Degrees = Death” on the building.
In a press release, Extinction Rebellion (XR) said that they targetted Murdoch’s building over The Sun newspaper’s coverage of the recent heatwave, including showing people enjoying themselves on the beach and eating ice cream rather than focusing on what they call a climate crisis”.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/07/19/extinction-rebellion-break-windows-of-murdoch-headquarters-over-lack-of-heatwave-coverage/
“Go outside. Sit in the shade. Have an ice-cream.” – heretic!!!!
Me? I’m downing a Kronenbourg…
Ah- Kronenbourg- king of beers for me! How many of these XR nutters will be in jail for their actions I wonder? What evidence do they have for their claim that 40c = death? Do they think that it’s preferable to have millions starve and freeze in harsh winters? I guess it is, so long as they’re filthy capitalist scum.
All of it exists solely between their ears. Call it belief, call it delusion or what you will, it’s a de-facto religion.
That’s why they obstructed 999 Ambulances with people dying in the back because some uptight middle class elitist kids think they have a right, no an entiltlement to tell the little people what to do and how to live. Even if they cause a death.
Older generation (left wing) academics have a lot to answer for
Highest temperature at Heathrow airport. No surprises there. They always use Heathrow to get the hysteria going.
Temps have been lower than forecast. Where I am the official meteorological site has temps at 33.2°C when 38 was forecast and the BBC is saying it’s currently 37.
The media always make things out worse than they are.
“Highest temperature at Heathrow airport”
Flights in and out seem pretty normal, every chance of a ‘record’.
Hit the nail there they are bullshitting the temperatures
A couple of days ago I said on another thread that I doubted that even the Met office would be stupid enough to quote Heathrow temps. I was wrong, I just heard at 2:00PM on GBNews, the Met office have reported that the highest temp so far today of 40.2ºC has been recorded at (fanfare please) Heathrow! For those that missed it, Heathrow weather station is here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4792309,-0.4505824,58m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-GB
Maybe UHI?
The BBC are actually admitting (for once) the 40.2 Heathrow temp is influened by UHI effect.
Really?
Several sites have already reported >40C temps today, not just Heathrow. These include Coningsby and Kew Gardens. Many more have reported temperatures more than 1.0C in excess of the existing UK record (37.8C). Like all new record reports, these will be treated as provisional until the UKMO carries out the usual checks. But it looks very likely that, at the very least, a new all time UK high temperature record has been set today and that this may well be in excess of 40C.
London never got above 38
Heathrow is a joke- – check it on Google Earth
RAF Coningsby weather station is here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Coningsby/@53.0936887,-0.167513,264m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4878725b3a3d293d:0xd0e85c36046c428a!8m2!3d53.105091!4d-0.175141?hl=en-GB
Perhaps a more rural setting than Heathrow, but still too close to the runway for anything other than pilot information. I haven’t yet found the Kew Gardens weather station, if anyone knows where it is please post here.
Kew Gardens weather station is south of the Orangery on the westerly side of the Board Walk across from the Hive in the middle of a grassy area.
51.481894, -0.294340
Looks to be the best sited of the three, but an asphalt footpath a few yards away may have an effect dependant on wind direction:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Coningsby/@51.4818983,-0.2942979,137m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4878725b3a3d293d:0xd0e85c36046c428a!8m2!3d53.105091!4d-0.175141?hl=en-GB
FWIW it seems a decent siting as it is in the middle of the London metro area. Most of the ones in So Cal seem to have been encroached by urban sprawl and are a lot worse.
Kew Gardens reported a high of 39 today, not 40. Not sure where this bogus information is coming from but the only sites reporting over 39.7 have been active RAF stations and 3 airports. I’m not sure about the ones between 39 and 39.7 though – some may be RAF stations that I don’t recognise, the Met Office are trying to be cagey about where the weather stations are.
I hope you live…that evil CO2 thwarting your plans 😉
Here’s a chilling thought- what if this is the last heatwave England gets for the next 100k yrs? Life is full of surprises!
What would you bet that it is?
Certainly not you…you think CO2 is killer 😉
I guess what he is saying is you are not going to die from it and all we are hearing is a lot of whining and what do you want us to do about it?
But, but, but…..the weather station isn’t actually on the runway …..so there’s that. Equating a weather event to a climate emergency is beyond rediculous. Next time we have a weather breaking cold snap these fools should be reminded of what they said about this heat wave
“Climate change causes heat wave” makes about as much sense as history causes events.
When someone starts showing me how carbon dioxide emissions affect the weather I will start thinking it can affect the climate.
I’ve been asking young snowflakes to show me this for some time- it isn’t even discussed any more, just assumed to be ‘a thing’- and all I ever get is insults or incredulity, as in how can I even ask such a thing? Isn’t that what science is supposed to do? I’m so glad I work long hours running my own business to pay taxes to keep these wretches.
“When someone starts showing me how carbon dioxide emissions affect the weather I will start thinking it can affect the climate.”
I’m with you.
Yes, what’s the connection between CO2 and the Earth’s weather? Heat? How much heat? What does this unknown amount of heat do in the Earth’s atmosphere? Does it have a noticable effect? Does it makes things hotter or colder?
The Science isn’t settled.
Just curious but is there anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere that is having record cold right now?
Also is this warm weather due to a ridge of high pressure causing a heat dome effect of a diabetic heating of air as it descends in the dome similar to what occurred in the Pacific Northwest of the USA last year?
I’m in the northern hemisphere so don’t know much about the winter in the southern hemisphere although I have seen some people from there saying they were having a very cold winter.
Yes, this warm weather in the U.S. is due mainly to a persistent high pressure system hovering over the area. It is currently hovering over the western half of the U.S. and is expected to move to the eastern half of the U.S. over the next few weeks.
Here’s a view of the air circulation from Nullschool:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-106.40,27.30,350/loc=-107.397,34.855
As you can see the jet stream is moving from west to east across the northern U.S. The high pressure system causing the high temperatures is located over the western part of the U.S. (the center is marked). This high pressure system is big enough to cover almost half of the U.S. It will eventually move to the east coast, and cover the eastern half of the U.S.
When you are underneath such a high pressure system, the temperatures keep climbing day by day and the rains go away, especially in places that are far from the oceans.
This year is shaping up to be as hot as the time around 2011, which was a very hot, dry, extreme summer. One of the worst I’ve ever seen. But since then, the summers have been fairly mild and wet. Until this year. We are hoping the summers get mild and wet after this extreme summer, too, like they did after 2011. There’s no reason to think they won’t.
“During the Little Ice Age in particular, when crops failed in many parts of Europe, there was a frenzy of witch-hunting. Some in society ‘held the witches directly responsible for the high frequency of climatic anomalies’.”
There’s a reason for that. Post-menopausal women talk and act differently than their former selves
Guardian having a field day with “provisional” 40.2 deg C at Heathrow airport. I wonder how near that was to the rear end of a 747 ??? Where is Willis when you need him?
“at Heathrow airport”
Think small city – an UHI – with thousands of staff and passengers, think jet exhaust…
Think easy record temperature.
Actually, it’s off the northern perimiter road, nowhere near the terminals and ~150m back from the runway edge.
Yes, nicely placed to get lots of heat
51°28’43.4″N 0°26’56.5″W – Google Maps
If it didn’t record the actual high air temperature an aircraft would expect to encounter on take off it wouldn’t be much use for air traffic safety.
WMO03772, Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport | Tallbloke’s Talkshop (wordpress.com)
Looks like a nearby hotel and several others not far away, presumably all with A/C running and dumping heat from the condenser units.
Or have they converted all hotels and homes to ground source heat pumps?
I vaguely recollect that weather stations were essential to be sited at “ground zero” at major takeoff & landing tarmacs primarily for use by pilots.
It was expedient then that these same stations were included in general met sources.
However, pilots need actual, real-time weather readings at / proximate to tarmacs, including UHI effects, not “adjusted” or “homogenized” for regional records purposes.
Clearly, major airport temps stations should not be used for the purposes of claiming what actually happened at any particular time.
The duration of prevailing recorded temps events is so fleeting anyway as to be practically useless as a guide in planning any activities an hour each side of the day’s claimed max or min.
(Unless you’re trying to get a loaded B777 off the ground of course, which 99.9999% of the population aren’t required to do 🙂 )
As someone who previously held a PPL in South Africa, knowing the prevailing temperature and humidity of the air at the runway is critical for determining maximum take-off load and required runway length to clea5r a 50ft obstacle.
Using same temperature reading for climate purposes is nonsensical. Totally inappropriate.
Did you look at the map? It’s adjacent to, as in right next to the black asphalt of the Northern Perimeter road, and if that’s 150 metres from the black asphalt runway I’m a Chinaman. Nearer 30, certainly less than 40, but in any case it’s not a suitable site to be measuring weather for the area, only for it’s intended purpose which is pilot information.
So you’re now saying its proximity to the road is more relevant than its proximity to the runway and terminals?
Who mentioned terminals? I’m saying the site is surrounded by black asphalt, not just the road but the car parks beyond and the runway. There is no way this station should be used to claim a record.
Think it has been there for a while so it registers the temperature it registers. It’s a relative thing. So unless the area has changed a lot then it is a record for that station.
A Met Office temperature station uses siting criteria for a reason – to record ambient air temperatures, not heat from passing hot cars, hot aircraft, hot tarmac, brick and concrete. If you don’t understand what a contaminated site is, may I politely suggest that you go to the Met Office website and look at the siting requirements for valid temperature stations? Then perhaps you will see that an airport or RAF airfield temperature station is totally unsuitable for use to record ambient air temperatures in a network.
Richard is the ‘expert’ again. Oh dear.
Lol…hello pot.
Colluuuusion clown is on the job.
You find the colluuuusion again?
DIIIIEEEEERGE Haha brilliant.
And yet you are so stupid. Have you admitted that there was no colluuuusion or is it a religion like global warming?
Absolutely THE best place for the Guardian and their dozens of readers!
Snowflakes do tend to be susceptible to warming and heat in general …….
The people crying about it seem mostly to be (self-appointed) ‘skeptics’.
As the town crier comes on site 😉
We’re not crying about it, we’re ridiculing it.
Nowadays, heat waves lead directly to speakwaves.
The bad news is….
Badenoch is out, so we’re going full net zero with Truss (rod), Woke Mordaunt or World Economic Forum favourite and non-dom merchant banker Sunak.
Beam me up Scotty.
No UK political party is ever going to roll back net zero
They will when the peasants start turning up at their homes or parliament with torches and pitchforks because of the deepening cost of living crisis, soaring energy prices and, possibly, blackouts.
Think Sri Lanka.
If the US mid-terms don’t go as expected for the Republicans, I don’t think the country will be far from a real insurrection.
Let’s face it, torches and pitchforks are all we’ll have…I read somewhere that Sunak says he’ll run the economy like Mrs T- what a joke. There isn’t a politician anywhere fit to hold her handbag!
No, but they will keep on kicking the can down the road until it is accepted that net zero is impossible and unnecessary.
That’s because net zero will never be achieved.
(But we already know that)
It’s already getting kicked into the long grass.
Grow up FFS. What UK politician has ever been prosecuted for not conforming to a political ‘law’.
What are they going to do? Resurrect Theresa May from the grave in 2050 and wag their finger at her because her plan didn’t work?
Boris would be OK, he would just wave his arms around and tell everyone he did what Carrie told him.
Maybe someone will look at Sri Lanka and decide bankrupting the entire nation because of fools like you isn’t such a good idea. Then what? Jail him/her for missing NuttyZero or declare him/her a hero/heroine for saving the country?
Fracking will be allowed, the ban on gas boilers will be quietly dropped, the electric vehicle mandate will be watered down until it’s only for inner cities, and as we sail past 2050 everyone will have forgotten NetZero Law. It’s a generation away!
The UK has cut back its emissions to 46% of 1990 emissions.
Pray tell Griff, what difference has it made?
You’re right. This whole thing’s been a scam for the libs to soak the Hoi Polloi with all this
useless RE. Once they have all the power & no longer need The True Believers™ to spread &
support their propaganda, they’ll just use whatever they want to- who will tell them they can’t?
Even now, the EU Commission says gas & nuclear are okay. With carbon capture, the evil coal
& oil can be blessed as being Net Zero, too. E-Z peasy!
I believe Bugs said “ignoranimus”.
A pretty unappetizing lineup to be sure. So now I am hoping for anyone but Mordaunt.
A bigger worry is how she is so popular in the party. There is a nasty rot in an organization that can back someone like her.
Agreed. But I don’t like Sunak, cut him in half and he’s imprinted WEF like a stick of rock. I have liked Kemi Badenoch since day one, for obvious reasons, I just don’t think she has the experience to carry off the job.
Which leaves Liz Truss, who I have to say seems to have left her opposition to Brexit behind and done her job of negotiating trade deals well.
We’re not reversing Brexit, it just won’t happen no matter the hysteria from remainers. The EU probably doesn’t want us back and to get back in we would be punished badly. They didn’t want us in the first place.
At least Truss has a fairly consistent voting record resisting the climate nonsense, even if she’s not prepared to come out and condemn it. Probably why Kemi isn’t more popular, she is a dyed in the wool climate sceptic and very anti WOKE.
She stood up in parliament and blasted those calling her a victim just because of her skin colour.
Merchant banker.. isn’t that rhyming slang?
Look at Truss’s voting record, consistently against climate policies.
Hysteria manifests in the ideologue’s mind, due to ideological suppression of logical thought. The human brain doesn’t function well under constant duress. The fight or flight mode is leading them by their collective ‘noses’. It must surely be a living hell to go through life, perpetually seeking all that is wrong, and scary. Mass formation psychosis, perpetuated by the media, and government sycophants.
It doesn’t function too well in the 39C it is outside my door right now.
A hot summer day in the UK would be 27.
You are obviously too young to remember 1976 then? Still the hottest summer on record.
I feel for the folks back in say 1911 who had to experience these same hot spells dressed in 3-piece woolen suits, and neck-to-ankle dresses over layers of undergarments.
And not an airconditioned theatre or pub in sight!
I remember that one- we were at the coast and the atmospheric conditions caused the TV in our flat to pick up broadcasts from Europe, (I’m guessing Denmark or Belgium but I don’t know which), whilst making the UK channels unwatchable. We played on the beach, used suncream, went in the sea, ate ice lollies…and no one thought it was a disaster. How bad of us not to feel shame!
You’re a bit out of date, for a ‘thinking scientist’.
The summers of 2003, 2006 and 2018 were all warmer than the summer of 1976, according to the UKMO, which compiles the record you’re referring to.
It’s easy enough check thngs like this on the internet, if you’re the type of scientist who thinks.
Nope still the hottest on average, try downloading the UK average maximum temps and checking out summer:
Here’s the Top 20:
Rank Temp year
1 21.01 1976
2 20.64 1995
3 20.62 2018
4 20.49 2006
5 20.36 1899
6 20.26 2003
7 20.18 1933
8 20.14 1911
9 20.01 1947
10 19.96 1983
11 19.95 1975
12 19.87 1887
13 19.75 2013
14 19.70 1955
15 19.57 1989
16 19.57 2021
17 19.56 1893
18 19.55 1949
19 19.53 1959
20 19.50 1984
And always good to see 1899, 1933, 1911 and 1947 still in the Top 10 – oldies but goodies!
One of the issues with using min/max temps is that the diurnal range is reducing over time, noticeably so in UK station recrods. So using min/max we get increasing averages because the min is going up, less so the max. Lots of problems with that scientifically including UHI etc, boundary effects etc. as a consistent measure.
Lindzen pointed out many years ago you should really only look at maximum temps because they are largely unaffected by local conditions. And max temps still leave 1976 in 1st place.
And just put the final nail in your argument, even the MEt Office agrees with me:
“Summer 2018 was the equal-second warmest summer in a UK series from 1884 for mean daily maximum temperature (shared with 1995) with summer 1976 hottest.
What is a heatwave? – Met Office
How would you know? You’re not of this planet.
The wind’s been on holiday the past several days. The sun always has the nights off. Both
have been unreliable when you needed them most!
That’s a hot day, not a hot summer
You’d think unreliables would be working well in these conditions – this is from yesterday
At 39-40C, I am still outside running (I’m close to 70 yrs young) or mowing the grass. It’s not pleasant, but it is quite bearable if you don’t do something dumb like not drink water or walk barefoot on hot asphalt. Anyhow, you normally just plan your activities around the peak heat. Why do you think Mexicans take siestas?
You clearly just need to install more wind turbines so you are in their shade and you can sell all that free electricity to others. Solved it for you Griff 🙂
Apparently nor does your power grid work to well in it
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-62222195
I thought you had a modern superior grid … remember you bagged the Texas grid and the UK one was so much better. Clearly more HVDC interconnectors need to be built to solve the issue.
I live in the Dartford/Gravesend area of Kent where we usually enjoy around the highest of the summer temperatures.
We were assured last night was ‘the hottest night eveh!’, but I can promise, we have had much warmer nights.
My daughter lives in a nice, brand new flat in London. Doubtless, one would imagine, built to the highest environmental standards. Except that, it was 30ºC in the flat last night.
During the day it has reached 35ºC and they are North facing, the South facing flats are even higher. No air conditioning of course, far too environmentally irresponsible.
The public are being laughed at by green grifters making a huge fast buck from this bollox.
Not according to the Met Office you haven’t. And yes, a brand new flat would have more insulation – and yet it is still that hot even when North facing. That’s the climate change related heat causing that
Er, no. That’s the plume of hot Saharan air caused by a wiggle in the jetstream.
It’s always just the result of a little ‘wiggle in the jetstream’. Like the massive heat in NW Canada last year was just another little ‘wiggle in the jetstream’.Will never happen again in our lifetimes, we were told.
All these little ‘wiggles in the jetstream’ that result in record warming and destruction over vast regions…
Just a coincidence that they are also the long-projected outcomes of man-made global warming?
Do you believe that? Are you waking up?
There again is that most-used word by proponents of agw –
“BELIEVE”
What’s to “believe”?
You look at current events, you look at historical events, you see that they’ve happened previously, and you conclude –
what’s new?
“Massive” 😉
Just a coincidence that they are also the long-projected outcomes of man-made global warming?
Got a reference for that – from say 15 or 20 years ago? As opposed to one made up post-hoc
It could be the heat from all of those inefficient wind turbines
Or all the hot air from Griff and the lefty green windbags tut-tutting at us.
That’s the climate change related heat causing that
__________________________________________
Not much different than: That’s the Devil causing that.
Other than that there is abundant evidence for global warming. A devil, not so much.
Tsk tsk…we moved from global warming to climate change and now climate extinction…stay on message chap.
The MET office doesn’t sleep in my bed. 🙄
Climate change related heat my aunt fanny. My brother in law is a commercial air conditioning design engineer in Bermuda. He took one look at the pictures we sent him of the building and said “far too much glass with internal air transfer up the stairwell”.
Sod all to do with climate, it’s a badly designed building!
Will you ever in your life make a comment that doesn’t involve vomiting over your keyboard?
Nothing to do with this:
https://en.as.com/latest_news/solar-storm-predicted-by-nasa-what-damage-could-the-flare-cause-n/
No mate, that’s the weather
So build underground
https://www.cooberpedy.com/underground-living-dugouts/
Then have your wind turbines up above and sell that free electricity
See solved it for you again 🙂
Well here we are with a string of places beating the UK temperature record – not just Heathrow… hottest min overnight temperature too
France and Portugal and Spain aflame and with record heat (and btw they have excellent forest management in those nations)… rivers drying up and glaciers collapsing in Italy and so on…
Uk has had its 10 hottest years post 2002 and 2 of its highest 10 temps in 1990, the rest this century…
and apparently this is all just weather.
Well if you believe that, please nip outside for a nice jog this afternoon.
2 days of hot weather. And? Its still weather. What else could it be?
And what have flames got to do with it? Are you suggesting that combustion is significantly different at 40 degC than 35 degC?
Combustion and fuel are two different things.
So is CO2 and water vapor 😉
Meanwhile the southern hemisphere is breaking cold records.
So just how does this global warming thingy work? Half a planet at a time? Media driven hysteria? You vomiting over your keyboard?
Which suggest the fires were induced by something other than heat. Heat alone, even at 40ºC+ does not ignite forest’s.
Thankfully, we are emerging from an ice age. The planet has only been as cold on a couple of occasions without being in a full blown ice age, or we’d be dying from the cold.
Which reminds me, just what is the Excess Summer Death rate? Oh! Right, there isn’t such a thing, it’s reserved for the 20,000 or so Excess Winter Deaths we suffer annually in the UK, largely from cold related conditions. They are called ‘Excess Winter Deaths’ because they are over and above what we experience in the summer, which is considered a normal death rate.
Racism now! Are you telling everyone that only African’s, Spaniard’s, Algerian’s etc. can run in the heat and that it’s impossible for the ‘white supremacist British’ to do so?
Your vomit is still dribbling down your face.
As usual you ignore the long history of English weather and in Europe in general where it has been hotter and longer lasting.
100 Degrees In London
“100 Degrees In London“That’s 37.8°C. Now it has reached 40°C.
Nick are you saying this is weather or global warming?
Or is he just pointing out that the UK now gets temps of over 40C?
Or is it weather?
“now gets”
… that escalated quickly.
Did you open the link?
It is the TITLE of the post.
“Did you open the link?”
Yes. It says nothing more than that it was “100 Degrees In London”
You’ve posted it several times now. Yesterday it was 104 degrees in London. So what was your point?
That you make it up?
I hear it’s very cold in Australia right now.
Griff, mate if I was as continually spooked as you are by what the weather was going to be like on any given day, I think I’d just pull the doona over my head and stay in bed permanently.
I understand you can get help for these afflictions though.
Try this one –
Yet you frequently comment on a blog that is concerned with weather/climate.
Yeah, but unlike Griff, I’m not SPOOKED by what the weather brings.
Remember, we’re living in a age where deaths from weather events are ~ 90% lower than they were in my grandparents’ youth.
How lucky are we?
Hello pot?
“and apparently this is all just weather.”
… hate to break it to you like this but………. yes.
As for France, 9 out of 10 of these forest fires start with a pratt and a match.
A criminal act, not a climate alarmists wet dream.
Vomit boy has been told this by innumerable people over the years.
Just doggedly sticks to his fantasy though.
“France and Portugal and Spain aflame and with record heat (and btw they have excellent forest management in those nations)… “
Yes they generally do, except the fire in the forest next to La-Teste-de-Buch, (Bordeaux) is different.
I’ll keep it simple.
The forest has in fact been at the heart of a legal battle for years, and the only forest in France to be governed by very old texts called “Baillettes and transactions”, which date from the Middle Ages.
The forest belongs to hundreds of owners who have plots on it, but “the public” also have rights to this forest and can notably obtain wood for free.
The conflict opposes the owners and the users around the interpretation of the texts of the 15th century and what they authorize or not.
This quarrel took a turn two years ago when one of the owners, submitted a management plan for classic forest law to be reinstalled and also gain the right to be able to market the wood, describing “a forest which has not been maintained since the 1980s” .
The Association for User Rights, opposed it, supported by environmentalist Senator Monique de Marco, and the local mayor.
A diplomatic report was written by the government upholding public rights but insisting on the need to clean up and secure the forests fire protection access.
A perfectly reasonable plan of action.
Early 2021 the work started but was cut short by more eco-fascist protest in the courts.
The result, a fire that’s taken out 6500 hectares (16000 acres) unnecessarily, which could have been avoided, or certainly reduced.
Eco loons saving the planet 1 hectare at a time… these people ruin everything.
So it’s not real then, the fire?
I obviously didn’t keep it simple enough.
That’s OK griff, I’ll do the work you should be doing for yourself re Summer deaths.
Reality check: New study finds that each year almost 80 times more Britons die from cold than from heat
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 7 July 2022
Some more factual information for you. India’s ‘unprecedented’ 2015 heatwave which went on for around 2 months before the monsoons arrived.
Heat waves are common in India between March and June, and the country’s meteorological service declares a heat wave when the air temperature at the surface rises by 5–6 °C (9–10.8 °F) above the normal daily maximum temperature of 40 °C (104 °F). (Brittanica)
As you can see, from a population of 1.3Bn people, there were 2,081 deaths.
Heat is not the problem.
Griff,
If you’re anything to do with this company, https://www.griffservices.co.uk/ and I rather suspect you may well be, it would explain your dogged refusal to see anything but the hands of man in every weather event that nature throws at us.
Shouldn’t that be grief services? Far more descriptive of the business.. “buy our solar panels and have grief for evermore”..
You convinced me Griff you are doomed mate … do you want me to send flowers or minstrels to your wake?
Meanwhile, not too far North:
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2022/07/two-aging-oil-tankers-are-breaking-their-way-through-arctic-sea-ice
While still in the UK
BBC Headline:”Shetland’s Lerwick dodges heatwave with top temperature of 14C
It is actually quite warm out there. One of my dataloggers, in a home-made white-plastic screen and in the shade under a small tree is presently (16:54 BST on 19 July) reading 41.0°C
Have just had a cruise round the block (on my little leccy scooter ##) and into the nearby forest and the ford where the river goes through.
With a little thermocouple thermometer
Among the trees themselves I got 37.5°C
Under a huge weeping willow and among other trees on the river bank I got 35.5°C while the water itself was 24.5°C
Tis thirsty work is Climate Science – the water was drinkable but ‘a bit on the warm side’.
(It comes from under a Limestone cliff about 20 miles upstream in Derbyshire – a bit low in Iodine but masses of Magnesium – gotta keep yer wits about you while doing Climate Science)
Perfect for paddling in though 🙂
## Yes, I’m trying Save The World.
Sadly my venture out on an EV didn’t fix The Climate but I know where I went wrong:
And Holy H Cow – is the sugar beet in the farmer’s fields looking sad or what.
Flat as fug.
And what I genuinely thought to be a crop of onions (Aye Kidde Ye Notte) turned out to be Maize = maize destined for the digester just down the road
Miniature maize going nowhere fast.
Not just wind and sun that make for intermittent energy
“UK reaches hottest ever temperature as 40.2C recorded at Heathrow”
A lifetimes supply of the Guardian for our winner Mr Fretslider for his amazing powers of prediction…
Fretslider:
“Heathrow is on standby….”
It’s the three bears theme of too hot too cold, too hard too soft and just right. The only difference is the three bears had no malice while the climate change crowd have created a culprit in the human race ignoring the Sun and weather. And the three bears were normal except for invading a home.
July 19, 2022 8:31 am
What is about the UK’s airports geography (/sarc), i.e.half a mile from Gatwick airport, Heathrow airport and Coningsby RAF base airport, that around midday, rather than early or mid afternoon today recorded the UK’s highest ever temperature?
Relief is coming in the form of a frontal boundary and rain, West of the boundary in Wales it is 83 F, East of it it is in the 102 to 106 (Peterbourgh) across England. I don’t think heat island provides a good explanation for these high temps, although I am sure it is a contributing factor depending on the location of the temperature sensors. Seems the heat is everywhere in East of the frontal boundary.
London has had a least a dozen significant heat ways since the early 20th century. The last one was in 2019 and today’s heat appears to be the worst. The question about the expanse of unban sprawl’s heat island effect and placement of heat censors as a contributing factor is anyone’s guess. The standard for the placement of temperature sensors placement is a key issue. I have temp sensors placed on the North, West and Southern sides of my house. In last afternoon, the West temperature sensor can be at 111 and the East at 82, Know doubt it is ridiculously hot in England today but senor placement standards are key.
There is no question of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change. We have perturbed the Stable State of the interacting complex energy systems which determine climate. It will now oscillate between greater and greater extremes until if finds a new Stable State. It may not be one conducive to human habitat.
The mathematics of the behavior of complex and interacting systems describes the destabilization of Stable States resulting in dramatic changes through a period of increasingly extreme oscillations, leading to dramatic discontinuity and the establishment of a new Stable State.
So it is called Catastrophe Theory.
George, please show, with graphs if possible, when the Earth’s climate was in a “stable state” as you declared. Go back in time as far as you like to show us this stable climate that existed before man’s interference.
Pick one yourself. How long were dinosaurs around? How long before single cell organisms went to multiple cells? Those were stable periods for millions of years and changes were gradual except for mass extinctions. We are losing species as fast as the last mass extinction now. The changes are too fast for live to keep up.
Name some of the species that went extinct. No computer models.
From memory, the Zoologist Lord Matt Ridley informs us that only one ‘species’, as opposed to a sub species, has gone extinct in over 100 years, other than on islands, including Australia.
Nothing to do with climate though for either of the groups. It’s been largely down to introduced predators like Rat’s, Dog’s and Cats killing off indigenous, vulnerable animals.
6th Great extinction my aunt fanny!
You’re telling us you’re old enough to have been hanging around when the dinosaurs were around, with your thermometer, suitably calibrated, to determine a 1ºC shift (or less) in global temperatures over 150 years?
Go back to sleep Rip.
Here’s a graph. Please point to the stable period George. Thanks in advance.
Hoyt, George is referring to a “Stable State”.
This condition is so important that apparently it now has to be capitalized.
Capitalizing a term means that it is beyond need for explanation.
Any ‘educated’ person under 25 years old will confirm this for you.
This sounds more like religion than science.
Oh, wait..
A sphincter says what?
“…activism is less and less about coming up with practical solutions to the problem of pollution…”
Well, that is because, at least in America, the air is clean, the water is clean, and there is no such thing as human caused climate change.
The pollution problem is already solved; environmental protection should be in maintenance mode, not crusader mode. But maintenance mode doesn’t come with the narcissistic ego high that comes with all out crazy zealot mode.
There is another and even more important aspect of green lunacy:
People who know nothing about the engineering of energy are behind the ruinous drive to “green energy” that has wrecked energy markets, sent energy prices soaring, ravaged the environment, further impoverished the poor and has caused riots around the world
https://www.biznews.com/energy/2022/07/19/electricity-crisis-engineering-basics
Try me. I am a former senior engineer for PG&E in California with a Master of Science in Environmental Management. My entire household and two electric cars are powered by the PV solar system on the roof of our house. It paid back in three years in gasoline savings alone, and would take six years in power savings alone. But now we get free power, do not have to go out to “gas up” and do not need tune-ups, oil changes, transmission worries or emissions tests or any engine maintenance at all. Don’t forget to open your garage door before warming up your polluter.
No wonder PG&E is so messed up. I prefer to use my lights at night so solar doesn’t do much. Plus my heater works the most at night so again solar is useless. I get an oil change once every 9000 miles, tune-up every 100,000 miles. You’ll be looking at new batteries then. They are a little more expensive than the tune-up or oil change. And I can go anywhere I want without returning to home base to charge up.
Good luck with the coming rolling blackouts, George. You should have majored in Electrical Engineering; then you would understand some of the technical discussions.
Free batteries and food from PG&E, right?
Pretty soon the cheapest EV will be around 300k, ideal for the millions of California homeless.
No heatwave in Western Washington (at least not my part of it). Mid July and and it’s barely gotten out of the 60s. We had two days of about 80 in June, other than that, zilch.
“It’s because of rich people.”
OK, if that’s the case, then move the World Economic Conference to Zoom instead of Davos, incarcerate Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, John Kerry, Al Gore, Larry Fink of Blackrock Financial, and others of their ilk until they sell their limousines, private jets, ginormous yachts and estates that require the equivalent of the hot breath of Godzilla to heat in winter and similar energy to cool.
When that happens I might pay a tiny bit of attention to you. And no, I will not sit quietly and eat my nutritional paste derived from insects, even if it is jalapeno flavored.
The millennials have just come of age and have no life experience to gauge history. So the genX participatory award parents have to make up more fantasy to tell them, because their whole lives were video fantasy and they are used to that. Lord help them if they ever had to read a history book.
As a Dutch professor recently observed that the very leaders who cannot control illegals pouring into their countries or produce balanced budgets and the most confident in being able to engineer climate across the globe.
Exactly, their incompetence is legendary, and their ideas always include an incremental loss of freedom for their citizens.
The fact that this is so widespread, and covers many different cultures leads me to believe that it is a seemingly inevitable evolution of western style governance to end up in this politically correct, mega-bureaucratic guagmire.
I’d like a reset……… but not the one they’re thinking of.
So the met office finally admit to urban heat, well they should now correct the 0.2 C
allowance for urban heat which was started in 1974. Especially as Heathrow and Kew gardens show temperatures of 2 – 3 deg C warmer compared to surrounding areas.
Another question for griff How many hot summers have there been in the UK
above the mean Temperature of 16.5C and when were they.
Well to save you looking it up. Since 1650 there have been just 32 in total
Two in the 1600s – Eleven in the 1700s – 6 in the 1800s – Ten in the 1900s
and only three so far in the 2000s
I understand that in Eastern parts of Europe and Western Russia, they are actually having near record cold temperatures.
Why are others so consumed with making sure others are not happy and pushing scary at every turn. Facts don’t matter, truth is silly and doesn’t help and we are in the way to this utopia where all people are fanned by wild animals and eat only grapes and drink wine. As close to death as I want to get right now is to say I am at the end of my rope and the stupidity ruling over us. I say separate already and start over as I have already picked my side
On the CBC website, the state-funded broadcaster in Canada, the first 10 links yesterday were hysterical stories about catastrophic global warming. Scary stories all over the place because europe is going through a heat wave right now.
Guess what the 11th link was? Story about the feds cutting carbon emissions in the oil and gas sector 40% by 2030. You can’t make this shit up!!
Wanna see death and destruction? Watch what happens if any govt enforces 40% emission reductions in oil and gas. It will be a disaster.
Go check out front page of CBC.
Obviously the climate hype is reaching a crescendo. The SCOTUS ruling threw a monkey wrench in the whole plan and the greens are reacting on a global scale. Now Brandon is talking about proclaiming a “Climate Emergency”. Whatever the hell that is?
But it should be obvious that this is a contingency to try and keep the master plan for the “great reset”, where by the middle/working classes will be destroyed on track.
Speaking from the southern U.S., I don’t feel your pain. I do worry about the U.S. having to bail you out with the new land war in Europe and exported climate clap trap with clear cutting for wood pellets over here.
A turn of the coin….
“Over hyped, over compensated, and over here”
What heatwave?
There hasn’t been one in the UK, as it has been a few days of hot/very hot weather.
Two many in the media and reports don’t even know what a heatwave is.
What defines a heatwave?
A heatwave is an extended period of hot weather relative to the expected conditions of the area at that time of year, which may be accompanied by high humidity.
The World Meteorological Organization defines it as five or more consecutive days during which the daily maximum temperature surpasses the average maximum temperature by 5 °C (9 °F) or more. Some countries have adopted their own standards.
How long did the incorrectly named 2022 heatwave last?
Two and half days (the first night didn’t reach the definition)
How long did the proper 1976 heatwave last?
Two months
The heatwave of 1976 started in June and lasted for two months. There was a lack of rainfall and a significant drought, with the government enforcing water rationing. The heatwave was rare for that decade.
All time records were broken today after regional records broken yesterday.
Was the hot weather caused by climate change?
NO
The hot weather was caused by a weather pattern causing very hot air to move northwards towards the UK with perfect precision from North Africa giving around 24c/25c 850mb temperatures. This air at this temperature has not been recorded over the UK before so minmum high and record high temperatures over the areas were broken. (25.9c/40.3c)
A warmer planet may have increased temperature by a little, but because of such extreme source it is difficult to know if this was the case. For example 35c/36c was widely recorded in England over the 1st and 2nd of September 1906. July is around 3c higher than September so 38c/39c could had been easily expected even back in 1906.
Was this source extreme like from North Africa?
NO
The source was from Spain so even though still very hot not quite as hot as North Africa. This means that if the source was from North Africa back in 1906 then temperatures would had been higher still. One or two degrees higher than the possible July temperatures back in 1906 of 38c/39c would lead to the current 40c recorded today. That provides the scientific evidence that the hot weather was not caused by climate change, but via the extreme source of air by the temporary pressure pattern.
https://www.wetterzentrale.de/reanalysis.php?jaar=1906&maand=9&dag=1&uur=1800&var=2&map=1&model=noaa
The media are saying this will happen a lot more and become the normal?
Only how this could become the normal is if the source of air is often from North Africa. A warmer planet would likely cause slightly higher temperatures but there is no science that supports a change in regular direction. Atlantic westerly winds will still dominate the UK climate.
What about grass fires breaking out in some regions?
This year England especially has been very dry with only one month above average all year so far. The land is tinder dry in many places and the recent very hot WEATHER has made matters worse.
Fires don’t start without a source and naturally that is lightning. There has been no lighning strikes over the areas where the fires have started so the cause has unfortunately been careless humans. They are a few major incidents going on burning property, so hopefully these will be put out soon.
The BBC is reporting record temperatures at Heathrow Airport; 40.2 degC (and also RAF Conningsby; 40.3 DegC) today (19th July 2022). I’ve emailed both Heathrow Press Office and the UK Met Office for the location of the Stevenson screen since I was unable to geolocate it myself from the one photo I could find on line. I’ve heard anecdotal reports of a temperature of 40.6 DegC on the Strand in London in 1808.
Anecdotally this temperature reading is ignored because the precision/calibration in 1808 was not up to modern standards but metrologists knew how to build precision thermometers back then. Also the Strand is right next to the Thames so there is likely to be a cooling bias in the reading.
I await a reply from one or both of those organisations.
The Stevenson screen wasn’t invented until later in the 19th century so it would have failed reliable observsation readings. The activists against science are not going to let that spoil their agenda like especially the one mentioned below.
There was a 39c recorded I think in London about 100 years ago and that was erased from records that did have Stevenson screen.
The MET can erase their records but they can’t erase the contemporary reporting.
100 Degrees In London | Real Climate Science
Thanks, that looks like it might be the one.
I posted google map links to both stations yesterday in this thread.
“It saddens me to see that the party of my youth, the Democrats, have embraced global warming as fervently as Massachusetts Puritans embraced the belief in witches.”
Dr. William Happer
It saddens many people to see that Will Happer came to this end. His legacy will be forever tarnished. His own fault.
Lol…democrats love the fraud Mann. Do you?
This is the 850 temperature anomaly map from the NCEP Ensemble mean that I like to use to see large scale blobs of heat/cold and track them globally thru 360 hours.
People familiar with this product, will note that in the Winter, these anomalies are much more impressive but this one over Europe is pretty impressive for the hottest time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, when heat anomaly extremes are tougher to generate because of the increasing negative feedbacks inherent in the system the hotter that it gets.
Cold anomalies in the Winter are also much MORE extreme because they’re experiencing ZERO solar radiation to low angled weak solar radiation in the high latitudes. This maximizes net heat loss for months during that time of year. When cold air pools under that environment…..it’s REALLY cold air.
In the Summer, at the high latitudes you have solar radiation most of the day to offset heat loss to minimize the magnitude of the cold(cool) air pooling.
So let’s actually discuss the impressive positive anomaly feature on this map.
If you live in that region right now, it’s huge but looking at the big picture, it’s isolated/over a small area of the planet and tells us…….
that its clearly not global in nature. Instead, it’s the result of unique, regional weather dynamics that all came together in one spot at one point in time………..and since its the hottest time of year climatologically in the Northern Hemisphere………..wherever this type of thing happens, it will result in record highs, potentially all time highs.
This is part of the very expected weather/climate on the planet.
If not, then do you expect us to never get hotter or colder than the temperatures of the last century+(since records have been kept)?
You would have to assume that extreme temperatures from 1850-2022 should never be broken because that was the most extreme time in that last 10,000 years.
Who really thinks that? OK, probably almost nobody here.
When is the most likely time to break all time records for extreme heat…..anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere?
Right now.
So unless you actually think no heat records from 1850-2022 should ever be broken(which is silly) this is normal extreme weather. It’s high end extreme but still normal extreme weather.
If this was happening over a low population area……………it wouldn’t get that noticed/attention. But it’s over a high population area in the developed world……..so it gets extreme/maximum exposure…….and twisted like a pretzel to mean something much more than the basic meteorology/climate 101 explained above.
Did global warming contribute to this?
Very likely. The average temperature in the UK has been around +1 degree C warmer vs 100 years ago.
So places hitting 40 deg. C today, would likely have been just 39 deg. C a century ago.
One extreme side NEEDS events like this to feed the fake climate crisis narratives and junk science rhetoric.
However, if we took an authentic poll of all the worlds creatures and biosphere, dialing in the key metric to measure it………greenness of the planet, we see conclusively that most life prefers the slight, mostly beneficial warming and greatly prefers the higher but still not optimal CO2 level.
The minor approximately 1 ℃ warming we’ve experienced is primarily in the winter nights, not the daytime maximums. Just looking at the U.S.’s 4th National Climate Assessment Report, the maximum temperatures peaked around the 1930s, declined rapidly and have stayed the same for decades. Peak heatwave temperatures cannot be caused by climate change.
A nice day today. Put on my kapok breeches and sawed up a tonne of birch logs for winters net zero cold blast. Took britches off and split some of them. Sod the neighbours in suburban Surrey. Watered garden , lounged in sun , went down to river to paddle a kayak for a couple of hours . Excellent day to practice rolling. Had a beer and went back home for a late lunch. about 5 had the urge for more Thames paddling to cool down then came home and watered garden just as a thunderstorm happened. Had a G and T and blethered on blogs. Well it probably was the hottest day in England since 1767 when the first started recording temperatures. I really hope that we did not have many hyperthermia deaths, and have not yet heard the media bleating so maybe it did not happen. The hypothermia to come in winter for those without my logs, now, that will come by vritue of govemental sins of omission , not extreme weather
“the first ever Red Extreme Heat Warning”. Well of course. They have only just invented it. And they changed their map colours too:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/met-office-forecaster-debunks-doctored-183259235.html
“Left – old school weather forecast, happy and sunshiny. Right – new style weather forecast, Designed to look like fear and destruction. It’s called summer.”
[Open the link and scroll down to the pic, or try:
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For all the cricket fans, the heat in England has favoured the South African cricketers. In their first ODI they beat England by 62 runs. No one on either team died of the heat despite the Met office alarmist warning.
Did the Met Office predict that cricket team members would die because of the heat?
If not, what are you talking about?
According to the Daily Mail 18 July (Britain goes meltdown):
Met Office warns that ‘thousands will die.’
Those out in the sun and exerting themselves must surely be most at risk.
Drawing the logical conclusion from the alarmism of the Met
we could expect a death or two at the match.
Having often played cricket nearly 60 years ago in temperatures up to 40C
I found the alarmism ludicrous. That is why I mocked their logic.
The Daily Mail?
Oh dear.
Is it like CNN. ABC, MSNBC….
I would have given a direct link to the Met warning but could not access it. I had to depend on the third rate DM report. I would be quite happy if you found and attached the link. Then the readers would know if the Met actually issued this wording or if the DM made it up. I am inclined to believe it is genuine because the Met regularly goes down the alarmist path as does the DM.
Maybe they dies from the “vaccine?” 😉
We wouldn’t have a cricket season in Australia or Sub Continent if we didn’t play cricket in 40 degree heat.
On a somewhat more serious note: Is it possible that the UK heatwave is due to La Nina? The current heatwave in the UK is less severe so far than their 1976 heatwave, as it is at similar overall temperature but so far it appears likely to be of much shorter duration. The headline temperatures in 2022 are from a few airport / urban sites. One feature of 1976 was that it was the third of three consecutive La Ninas (1973/4, 74/5, 75/6). La Nina causes floods in some places but droughts in others, and low rainfall causes higher daytime temperatures. We are in a 2-year La Nina now. Maybe the 1976 UK heatwave was caused by La Nina, and maybe it is now repeating in 2022.
Another very interesting feature is that the 1976 heatwave came at the end of a ~30-year global cooling period with global temperatures lower than today’s. Maybe the UK’s Met Office should put more effort into analysing than into scare-mongering.
“Have an ice-cream.”
Better yet would be a wet T-shirt contest.
(It’s been known for some time now that evaporating water has a cooling effect.)
That cooling effect has wonderful effect on nipples.
OK, I’m game.
Here’s my entry –
%3fitemid%3d16007564
G’Day Mr,
“Here’s my entry –”
Much as I hate to admit it, I don’t have an entry, ‘good’ or ‘bad’. A further admission, I’ve never attended a party where such a ‘contest’ was conducted.
Good one, except I don’t like to waste potable water. A dunk in a pool should be enough to get the desired effect.
According to BBC Newsnight today saw the hottest temperatures EVER in the UK. What an absolutely stupid and ridiculous claim. No mention of the word ‘recorded’.
Still, it suits the BBC narrative. Forget the truth, just stick to the propaganda.
Just remembering Paul Homewood’s comments from a month ago, about temperatures in 2050.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/28/forecast-for-22nd-june-2050/
Doncaster reported to have reached close to 40°C today.
On the 18th maximum CET was 34.8°C. Today’s maximum is going to be hotter, possibly close to 37°C.
No doubt Homewood will now correct his blog and apologise to his readers.
Or was I thinking of a different Paul?
We just need one more model 😉
Maximum for the 19th was 37.3°C. Homewood’s chart (using the newer version of CET) now looks like this:
Mmm! 40.3C allegedly as reported today. I wonder, what do they think the temperatures might have been, if there was a few PPM less CO2 in the atmosphere?
It’s a good question. If you look at the monthly data for July in the UK since 1951, then there has been (up to 2021) a warming trend of about +0.2C per decade; or about 1.7C overall warming.
Assuming (as the vast majority of climate scientists do) that this is attributable to human influences, then you might say that temperatures, in the absence of this human influence, might have been perhaps a degree or two C cooler than they were today.
But this ignores the potential influence of human activity on the jetstream; how the distribution of Arctic sea ice, etc, affects climate.
No kidding. Crazy how we hurricanes numbers are not increasing nor are they getting stronger.
Warming primarily in nighttime lows, not daytime highs. UHI, anyone?
I wonder, what do they think the temperatures might have been, if there was a few sq m less asphalt and concrete?
Well, you can look at sea surface temperatures and ocean heat content too, and they are also rising. Do parking lots in cities increse ocean heat?
Okay you convinced me …. now what?
All I am seeing is you are going to have to learn to live with changed conditions.
Although clearly not its intent, doesn’t this article on the BBC website imply that the UHI adjustments are inadequate. “Her neighbourhood is particularly susceptible to heat. According to 4 Earth Intelligence’s heat hazard scale that goes from one to five, Jorda’s postcode area is a five. On one day last July, the area where she lives was a full 5C hotter than in a nearby park.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62126463
It’s instructive to consider what Prof Cliff Mass from Washington State University concluded about last June’s heatwave in NW Pacific area.
Even factoring in general warming for the region of ~ 1 to 2 F since the year 1900, the temps experienced there last June would still have exceeded what was recorded without any warming influence.
Such was the confluence of dominant natural variation influences.
It’s quite interesting that in modern media, it is obligatory to refer to the state of the environment as ‘the climate emergency’. If you look it up on Google, you will find hundreds of thousands of hits. Of course, there is not any climate emergency. Otherwise they wouldn’t refer to it all the time as a climate emergency.
Weather deaths down by a factor of 25, weather hysteria up by a factor of 25.
It’s a perfect correlation, just the opposite of what their religion is pretending.
The rich inner city left/greens/politicians that are pushing climate alarmisim onto the poor should practice what they preach. No more private jets, 100m long yachts, numerous holiday homes, exotic sports car, limousines….90% of their wealth should confiscated to pay for their renewables energy revolution. This is what the average person should be demanding. Raise up and protest like left do every day. Why should the poor suffer while rich gallivant around the world in luxury. Tax them now.
UHI. The 40.2°C was measured in the Heathrow AirPort.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44980493
This morning on the news in Melbourne Australia.
”Last night was the coldest night since 2018. More records will be broken tonight”
Most of the public….”wow!”
The UK temperature record set only 3 years ago was broken in 29 different places across England yesterday… by 1.5 degrees, with multiple instances of the first 40C temp records for the UK. New record of 34 for Scotland (21 is hot in Scotland in the summer!).
given that before yesterday 7 of the top ten UK temps had been this century and that all the 10 hottest years have been since 2002, are Watts readers still going to insist this is ‘normal’ for the UK and somehow an isolated incident?
It is plainly climate change…
and if you look across Europe where even the Netherlands is seeing temps approach 40C… heatwave in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy…
Well I’ve leave you now to prepare your feeble excuses for the heat dome in the US and approaching new Texas record temp…
Griff, the temp has risen half a degree or so over the last 40yrs, do you understand?
Nobody is doubting ‘climate change’, griff, it’s what’s causing it that people are questioning. Climate scientists and the Met Office get shiny new computers and shedloads of money for blaming it all on man-made emissions.
There’s actually no hard evidence at all that what’s happening is down to man-made emissions, though even the hardest sceptic is likely to accept man is bound to have made some impact.
My own view from studying the data is that man’s contribution is negligible and what we’re seeing is far more likely due to nature being nature. But if I were head of a department seeking money, I’d be unlikely to admit as much; and the idea that academics are somehow immune from this sort of behaviour is nonsense. Universities and research departments are riddled with politics and greed just as much as any large corporation.
Climate change has been weaponised for political purposes. The proper science died a long time ago.
“are Watts readers still going to insist this is ‘normal’ for the UK?”
I thought you said this IS the new norm, make your mind up.
The present heatwave in the UK is definitely not unprecedented and is certainly not caused by the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) which exceeds 400 ppm at present. This truth is evident if one takes the time to study historical data.
THE WRITTEN RECORD. The Romans used to tend to vineyards in the UK. This indicates that the average temperature was definitely warmer in the past during the Roman Warm period (RWP).Presently it is much too cold in the UK to successfully harvest grapes. Greenland farmers raised livestock during this period. The CO2 level during the RWP was less than 300 ppm.
THE SCIENCE. A study of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) cores temperature proxies indicate that the temperature in the North Atlantic region was hotter during the Holocene Maximum, the Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Warm Period to name only three recent warm periods. The atmospheric CO2 level during all of these periods was less than 300 ppm.
My guess is the Europeans will stop making fun of us American’s love for Air Conditioning.
You are preaching to the already knowing or converted. It is the idiots you need to talk to. Maybe spend your words ridiculing the woke reporters and the fraudulent scientists who are in plague proportions. Start with David Attenborough who was OK until he saw David Bellamy sacked by the BBC for daring to tell the truth and then he went full GW/CC so he could keep his job. There are lots of cowards like Attenborough who put financial gain before scientific endeavour and finding truth rather than seek acceptance by the hopelessly wrong in-crowd.