{"id":378540,"date":"2025-05-15T18:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=378540"},"modified":"2025-05-15T18:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:57:32","slug":"met-office-failed-to-predict-dry-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=378540","title":{"rendered":"Met Office Failed To Predict Dry\u00a0Spring"},"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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We are heading for the driest Spring on record, and no doubt the climate con artists are already lining up their \u201cblame it on global warming\u201d stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If that were true, the Met Office would have been forecasting it three months ago, but in fact they did just the opposite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All three months included in that Outlook \u2013 February, March and April were much drier than normal, a prospect the Met Office effectively dismissed at the end of January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have asked the Met Office to supply the March to May outlook, which does not pop up on Wayback, unlike the above one. When we get the actual numbers for May, I will update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these 3-Month Outlooks are clearly not worth the paper they are printed on if they cannot even predict weather events like this spring\u2019s rainfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are heading for the driest Spring on record, and no doubt the climate con artists are already lining up their \u201cblame it on global warming\u201d stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":378551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818389,691819743,691835101,691818087,691818808,691835102,691835014],"class_list":{"0":"post-378540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-climate-propaganda","10":"tag-driest-spring","11":"tag-global-warming","12":"tag-met-office","13":"tag-national-drought-group","14":"tag-weather-prediction","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0hq_interior.jpg?fit=2500%2C1666&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Atu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":381954,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=381954","url_meta":{"origin":378540,"position":0},"title":"Sunniest Spring On\u00a0Record","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/07\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Met Office would like you to believe that when we now get the same weather as 132 years ago, it is due to global warming!","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-132.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-132.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-132.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-132.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":211098,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=211098","url_meta":{"origin":378540,"position":1},"title":"No, Met Office\u2013A Dry July Does Not Mean Climate Change.","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/30\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Paul Homewood This really is quite fraudulent: So far July 2022 has been the driest July in England since 1911. 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