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By Paul Homewood
Two contrasting items on the Met Office News website today!
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Met Office Blowing Hot & Cold!
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As you say: in the recorded temperatures. The question is do the recorded temperatures have any relation to the actual temperatures given the well documented deplorable state of the MET’s network of sensors. I am an outgoing person and 2025 was a run of the mill ordinary year. So as far as I’m concerned one can put that ‘warmest on record’ with the rest of the folklore.
No doubt in my mind. Been a crazy warm year. No truly exceptional heat records but uniformly warm. CET confirms. Never had roses Hebes and marigolds in flower at Christmas in my lifetime before.
The problems with the temperature data are much exaggerated, it all comes out in the wash.
There was no cold in 2025 apart from half of January and very briefly in November. The majority of months were 2 to 3C above average.
Be of no doubt though, this was a result of the average air source over the UK this year being dominated by deep S SW rather than N/W SW. Is that a permanent shift of our weather pattern or just one year of chance weather?
‘Never had roses Hebes and marigolds in flower at Christmas in my lifetime before.’
You have put your finger on the crux of the matter.
Winter in Britain has got milder.
On the one hand, 2000 fewer pensioners die of hypothermia than in the winter of 1962-1963.
On the other hand, people have more flowers in their gardens.
Swings and roundabouts!
The concept of UK Annual Temperature is indeed a joke.
The Met Office says ‘2025 10.05°C’
Explain why I should not start laughing at 2 decimal places for averaging out midday in June and winter nights in January as being a figure which has any meaning whatever, apart from demonstrating that your calculator works.
