{"id":305711,"date":"2024-03-04T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305711"},"modified":"2024-03-04T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:34:23","slug":"no-bbc-it-was-not-the-warmest-february-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305711","title":{"rendered":"No, BBC\u2013It Was Not The Warmest February On\u00a0Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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England and Wales had their warmest February on record this year, the Met Office said on Friday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average temperature for England was 7.5C, with an average of 6.9C in Wales. The UK as a whole saw its second warmest recorded February.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farmers say they are losing crops to floods while less frost hurts the growth of trees like apples and pears.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The provisional statistics are in line with long-term projections of warmer, wetter winters due to climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Average temperatures for the UK as a whole in February were 6.3C.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s still below February 1998\u2019s figure of 6.8C.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-68435197.amp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office data goes back to 1884, but yet again the Met Office conveniently ignore the much longer CET series, which shows that February 1779 was actually warmer. This makes a nonsense of their claim that one month\u2019s mild weather has anything to do with \u201cclimate\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as the CET table below shows, there have been six other Februarys above 7.0C, with none since 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/hadobs\/hadcet\/data\/meantemp_ranked_monthly.txt<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The UK chart also clearly shows that mild Februarys have occurred from time to time throughout the record. It is the absence of extremely cold months in the last decade or two which is largely responsible for the rise in average temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Given the fact that most of the Met Office\u2019s temperature stations are junk, any claims that last month was a fraction of a degree warmer than, for instance 1945, cannot be treated seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC also talk of floods, yet although last month was much wetter than average, it was a long way from being a record, and there have been several other years with similar amounts of rainfall. It is the same story with winter rainfall as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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