{"id":331632,"date":"2024-06-05T11:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=331632"},"modified":"2024-06-05T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:38:07","slug":"hottest-may-believe-us-not-your-lying-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=331632","title":{"rendered":"Hottest May! Believe Us, Not Your Lying\u00a0Eyes!"},"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

\u201cThe Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Met Office has now shredded the last bit of credibility it had.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do they seriously expect people to believe this lie? And it is not just warmer by a few hundredths of a degree. They actually dare to claim it is a whole degree warmer than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First off, as they have now done three times in the last year, they have declared a record hot month, without even mentioning that longer running CET data shows it was much warmer in the 19thC. In this case, May 1833 was a full degree hotter. To not mention this fact is proof that the Met Office are no longer interested in facts, only political propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

CET also shows that we had several similarly warm Mays in the 19thC, which raises the question \u2013 are we comparing like with like when we compare temperatures nowadays with those from 50 or 100 years ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which of course brings us back to the junk nature of the Met Office\u2019s weather station network. As we know, most of it is unfit to be used for climatological purposes, as poor siting means they can have margins of error up to 5C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At no stage was the weather last month anything out of the ordinary. We had a few, pleasant days, but temperatures never got above the level regularly seen in other years. The highest temperature of the month on CET was only 24.3C, well below the record of 28.9C set in May 1944, and 28.6C in May 1947. There have been 33 years which recorded higher May temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the second half of the month was distinctly cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/hadobs\/hadcet\/data\/download.html<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Compare last month with May 1947, for instance, which experienced a real heatwave:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Temperatures last month got nowhere near 90C. And the hot weather lasted for more than a few days. Apart from those two cool spells, the month was largely dominated by anti-cyclonic warmth. Yet according to the Met Office, May 2024 was 1.7C hotter than May 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 1953 was another hot month, but the Met Office say it was 1.9C cooler than last month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Met Office have argued that the warmth last month, according to their figures, was due to night time temperatures. However their data also shows a record for May based on daily max temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are well familiar with the concerns about the accuracy of the Met Office temperature dataset. But let me give you one more example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ray Sanders, who has spent much time on this topic, noticed that the highest UK temperature of the day was set last week at Neatishead in Norfolk. He did not recognise this station and it was not on the Met Office\u2019s classification list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he enquired with the Met Office, they told him that the station only began operations in December 2022. So their dataset now includes a station which almost certainly is in a hot spot, whether geographic or because of poor siting. And consequently, up goes the Met Office\u2019s temperature for that part of Norfolk. (They also asked him why he was enquiring about the station classification \u2013 plainly they are desperate to stop the public finding out the truth about their stations!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiply that out a hundred times, and you can quickly add a degree or two to the national temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office obviously now feel emboldened enough to publish these sort of claims, no matter how outrageous. They know the public don\u2019t believe them, but no longer care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally let\u2019s finish with the twitter commenters, nearly all of which are highly critical and incredulous:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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