I very agree with you very much about the adjustment for UHI being inadequate. Here in Scotland (central Highlands) there were a few hot days, but 33C is not that unusual, we have temps in the low 30s for a day or two just about every year. Tiree had a cool and damp summer, lots of fog / mist all through June and July. North-west of Scotland also had very indifferent weather, rain most days in first few weeks of July. Whether this will be registered in the UK dataset is open to question.
I'm in Cumbria, just south of the border with Scotland. 'Summer' didn't really start until mid July, 'Spring' felt more like winter on many days. We've had no shortage of rain either. But the Met Office tells us that Spring and Summer 2022 were the warmest or near warmest in England/the UK and that there was a historically bad drought. I think they have totally lost perspective in seeking to promote the extreme weather/climate change disaster narrative.
We had a good spring and summer in central / southern highlands. May wasn't bad and June could have been worse. But folk I know on Tiree who said summer for them only started in the third week of August! Fact is that no where had a summer like nearly the whole of the UK did in 1976 - when it was hot and sunny for 6 weeks, lawns brown/dead (not common in highlands). What I fear is the winters like 1979 and 1981-82, (I am too young to have experienced 1963, but have heard the stories and seen the pictures - snow over the tops of telegraph poles etc). We will have one of them again sooner or later, and it won't go well as there will be no stockpiles of coal or gas to keep people warm and the lights on.
It's closer than the late 70s/early 80s even. 2009/10 was a very bad winter across the UK and December 2010 was actually the second coldest December month in Central England recorded since 1659! Coincidentally, those years also happened to be when La Nina was in full swing - just like it is now, as we look set to experience a rare 'treble dip' La Nina winter. If northern Europe experiences those kind of temperatures this winter, it is going to be absolutely disastrous. I can't imagine the chaos it will cause.
Yes, 2009-10 was very cold, and consistently cold for many weeks. But Dec 2010 was even colder, a few places locally were minus 22C, but this spell only lasted for a few days or a week at the most iirc. Here's the MO monthly charts for Tiree and Braemar which illustrates this: https://twitter.com/lapogus1/status/1455208154569003018
Note March 2013 which was colder than most Januarys. There was no spring that year, and it wasn't warm enough to wear shorts until August. Winter 2017-18 was also interesting, no extreme cold, but it started in November and went on for months. At least 60 snow days, kids were sick of it.
I remember 'spring' 2013 vividly as I was out walking kennel dogs for hours on end most days. That March month was also 14th coldest in CET. All colder March months happened in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It just reflects the extreme short term variability in the weather of the British Isles and any attempt to attribute that variability to 'climate change' is complete BS. No doubt if it does get exceptionally cold this winter, they will also try to blame that on climate change too.
Forgot to say, one of the reasons averages are up for 2022 is that we have had no frosts that I can remember since probably late April. We usually have quite a few frosts in May / June (and usually a week of cold north winds in early June) which didn't happen this year.
I very agree with you very much about the adjustment for UHI being inadequate. Here in Scotland (central Highlands) there were a few hot days, but 33C is not that unusual, we have temps in the low 30s for a day or two just about every year. Tiree had a cool and damp summer, lots of fog / mist all through June and July. North-west of Scotland also had very indifferent weather, rain most days in first few weeks of July. Whether this will be registered in the UK dataset is open to question.
I'm in Cumbria, just south of the border with Scotland. 'Summer' didn't really start until mid July, 'Spring' felt more like winter on many days. We've had no shortage of rain either. But the Met Office tells us that Spring and Summer 2022 were the warmest or near warmest in England/the UK and that there was a historically bad drought. I think they have totally lost perspective in seeking to promote the extreme weather/climate change disaster narrative.
We had a good spring and summer in central / southern highlands. May wasn't bad and June could have been worse. But folk I know on Tiree who said summer for them only started in the third week of August! Fact is that no where had a summer like nearly the whole of the UK did in 1976 - when it was hot and sunny for 6 weeks, lawns brown/dead (not common in highlands). What I fear is the winters like 1979 and 1981-82, (I am too young to have experienced 1963, but have heard the stories and seen the pictures - snow over the tops of telegraph poles etc). We will have one of them again sooner or later, and it won't go well as there will be no stockpiles of coal or gas to keep people warm and the lights on.
It's closer than the late 70s/early 80s even. 2009/10 was a very bad winter across the UK and December 2010 was actually the second coldest December month in Central England recorded since 1659! Coincidentally, those years also happened to be when La Nina was in full swing - just like it is now, as we look set to experience a rare 'treble dip' La Nina winter. If northern Europe experiences those kind of temperatures this winter, it is going to be absolutely disastrous. I can't imagine the chaos it will cause.
Yes, 2009-10 was very cold, and consistently cold for many weeks. But Dec 2010 was even colder, a few places locally were minus 22C, but this spell only lasted for a few days or a week at the most iirc. Here's the MO monthly charts for Tiree and Braemar which illustrates this: https://twitter.com/lapogus1/status/1455208154569003018
Note March 2013 which was colder than most Januarys. There was no spring that year, and it wasn't warm enough to wear shorts until August. Winter 2017-18 was also interesting, no extreme cold, but it started in November and went on for months. At least 60 snow days, kids were sick of it.
I remember 'spring' 2013 vividly as I was out walking kennel dogs for hours on end most days. That March month was also 14th coldest in CET. All colder March months happened in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It just reflects the extreme short term variability in the weather of the British Isles and any attempt to attribute that variability to 'climate change' is complete BS. No doubt if it does get exceptionally cold this winter, they will also try to blame that on climate change too.
Forgot to say, one of the reasons averages are up for 2022 is that we have had no frosts that I can remember since probably late April. We usually have quite a few frosts in May / June (and usually a week of cold north winds in early June) which didn't happen this year.