UK summer warmest, driest and sunniest since 2006

The_Green_Hornet

The UK has experienced its warmest, driest and sunniest summer since 2006, the latest Met Office figures show.

The mean temperature in the period from 1 June to 28 August was 15.2C (59F), which is 0.8C above average.

There were 588 hours of sunshine, making it the seventh sunniest summer since records began in 1929.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23903617

zeupater

The_Green_Hornet wrote: »

The UK has experienced its warmest, driest and sunniest summer since 2006, the latest Met Office figures show.

The mean temperature in the period from 1 June to 28 August was 15.2C (59F), which is 0.8C above average.

There were 588 hours of sunshine, making it the seventh sunniest summer since records began in 1929.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23903617

Hi

Don't you just wish that the BBC/MetOffice would get their act together ... it seems that they can't just forecast, but have problems with historical data too.

The data available from Hadcet seems to suggest that for the three months concerned (J/J/A) the aggregated average daily temperatures for each of the following years between 1976 & now were warmer than 2013 .... 1983, 1984, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2003 & 2006 !! ... Adding insult to injury, the period was also 0.9C warmer than the average for whole period from 1659 (pre industrial revolution) to date, not just the 30 year average (1961 to 1990) which is consistently used in climate based calculations.

I simply guess that a headline stating that summer 2013 was 'the eighth warmest since 1996' -or- 'the warmest for 6 years' -or even - 'the 44th warmest in the last 350 years' doesn't really conform to the theory of 'Global Warming' to the same extent ...

Placing it into context, according to the Hadcet dataset there were 18 summers warmer than 2013 in the 140 years prior to 1800 against just 17 warmer in the last 140 years .... again, a little reported comparison ( probably because I only just performed the analysis ) ....

Don't you just love data ... :cool:

HTH
Z

EricMears

Very old - but still very true !

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics.

The_Green_Hornet

It has been by far the sunniest summer since my Solar PV records began, and that is all that matters to me.

2011 - 466 kWh
2012 - 449 kWh
2013 - 521 kWh