COVID-19 and central England temperatures
I was just speculating just how much effect temperature had on the resurgence of COVID-19 across the UK this autumn, and if it does what was the trigger point temperature that suppressed it and kept it …
Investigations
Extreme months, seasons and years in central England
Not surprisingly in these days of galloping climate change only one extreme month has appeared in the top twenty ranked list of coldest months, seasons and years in the central England series. The reason I know …
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Heatwave frequency and duration in central England since 1878
There seem to be an endless fascination with heatwaves and how they’ve been on in the increase in recent years due to global warming, the jet stream or something such, so I decided the easiest way …
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Charts to please people on both sides of the AGW debate
In this article I decided to include a chart of rolling 365 day mean temperatures from the central England temperature series to illustrate how to use, or maybe abuse, a simple linear trend in a graph …
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Correlation between UK gridded and central England temperatures
If you expected that there would be a strong correlation between temperatures from the daily central England series and the monthly values from the UK gridded 1910 data series then you would be right, there is, …
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Hot summers in Central England
There was a lot of talk in the media last year about the summers heat wave (2018) and comparisons with 1976. Here is a table of the top thirty warmest seven day periods since 1772 that …
June temperatures in central England little changed since 1659
It’s not a well known climatological fact, but central England temperatures in June have remained little changed in the 361 years since the series started back in 1659. A simple linear trend will reveal that there’s …
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The unusual month of December 1786
I have always been fascinated by the Central England Temperatures series first assembled by Gordon Manley in 1953 and which I have written extensively about it my blogs over the course of the last 8 years. …
Why do some months warm faster and others don’t?
It has been obvious to me for many years how increases in temperature in individual months in the Central England Temperatures series are far from uniform. Some months are warming much faster than others, and some …
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A new look at Central England Temperatures
I thought I would try and find a new way to visualise the latest Central England Temperature data which I download from the Met Office. I did it by splitting the window in my Daily CET …
Monthly, seasonal and annual league tables
Currently the mean temperature of 10.57°C in the last 365 days since the 18th of May 2019, was the 11th warmest since 1772 in central England. The current anomaly is +1.07°C above the 1961-1990 LTA. The …