{"id":398206,"date":"2025-08-27T18:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=398206"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:16:19","slug":"hottest-summer-met-office-take-the-piss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=398206","title":{"rendered":"Hottest Summer? Met Office Take The\u00a0Piss!"},"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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The United Kingdom has “almost certainly” had its hottest summer on record, according to provisional statistics from the Met Office.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/articles\/c1kz18d3wjro<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has become apparent for a couple of weeks now that the Met Office were determined to claim this summer as the hottest evah.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claim is transparently absurd, as anybody who lived through the summer of 1976 will attest. Unlike the Met Office and BBC, I will wait until all the data is in to pass judgement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this latest edict from the Met Office just how far their UK temperature datasets have become divorced from reality. They pretend to know the average UK temperature to a few hundredths of a degree. Yet the dataset is almost entirely based on worthless junk sites, so badly sited that they might be overestimating temperatures by as much as five degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No reputable scientific organisation would claim any significance from such worthless data, which in itself shows how politicised the Met Office has become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with perfect timing, Chris Morrison reveals the latest Met Office temperature tampering scandal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The UK Met Office has over 100 non-existent weather stations where it estimates temperature data using information from “well-correlated neighbouring sites”. However, it refuses to identify any of the sites used and bats away Freedom of Information (FOI) requests with the excuse that they are \u201cvexatious\u201d and not in the public interest<\/a>. But today the Climate Skeptic<\/em> can reveal recent work<\/a> that shows how in the case of the fictitious site at Lowestoft there are no open weather stations for miles around, well-correlated or otherwise. Unless the Met Office can finally reveal its workings out, the only realistic conclusion to draw is that the data are invented. It is the \u2018smoking gun\u2019 that demands a full public explanation from the Met Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperature data at Lowestoft have been invented since 2010<\/a> when the station was closed. According to a Met Office public domain location temperature database, the nearest climate stations to Lowestoft are Hemsby (four miles away), Coltishall (25 miles), Scole (26 miles) and Morley St Botolph (30 miles). Given the distances from the coastal location of Lowestoft, these can hardly be considered well-correlated or neighbouring. The fact that every one of them is also closed might be considered another disqualifying feature, although, as we have seen with the Met Office, not necessarily so. What make Lowestoft particularly interesting is that it features as one of only 36 stations on the Met Office\u2019s Historic Station<\/a> database. Of even further interest is that it is still said to be open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science Shock: \u2018Smoking Gun\u2019 Evidence Emerges That the Met Office is Inventing Temperature Data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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