May 2021 – currently coldest in 25 years
The provisional mean temperature for May up until the twenty third of 9.65°C (anomaly -1.19°C lower than the 1961-1990 …
Statistics
7th April – 6th May – coldest since 1887
The renewed interest in this blog after it lying dormant for almost a year has spurred me on to …
May in central England
May is an unusual month in central England in the fact that mean temperatures for the month have hardly …
April 2021 – Coldest since 1986
April 2021 with a mean temperature of 6.42°C was the coldest April since 1986 in Central England, with a …
Coldest start to April since 1958
Provisional mean minimum temperatures for April 2021 up until the 17th are just 1.12°C and 2.25°C below the 1961-1990 …
Extreme Aprils in central England
Central England Temperatures Extreme Aprils The coldest April in recent memory was the April of 1986. The mean temperature …
Mar 2021 – Cold first week then mild and exceptionally warm end
Another very mild March in central England but there have been so many in the last 30 years that …
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30 Mar 2021 – Joint fourth warmest March day since 1878
Yesterday’s provisional maximum of 19.9°C (30 March 2021) made it the fourth joint warmest March day in central England …
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Frequency of warm and cold days
I was looking for some evidence of how the frequency of cold and warm days has changed in the …
Buchans February 7-14 cold spell in Central England
Most of us probably know that Buchan wam and cold spells are a myth and a figment of Alexander …
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Coldest start to a January since 2010
The first nine days of January 2020 have proved (provisionally) to be the coldest start to a New Year …
Recent 30 day running mean temperature
I just came across this viewer I programmed sometime ago as I was tidying up. It displays a running …
Warmest first of November
Provisionally Sunday, the first of November 2020, was the warmest by day since at least 1878 with a temperature …
October 2020 – another fairly average month
Central England temperatures have become rather boring of late, and October 2020 was no exception with the mean temperature …
Why aren’t days of the year warming at the same rate in central England?
It seems like the days of the year aren’t warming at the same rate in the daily central England …
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Warmest 15th of September since 1772
Provisionally yesterday the 15th of September provisionally reported the highest mean since 1772 (19.1°C), and the highest maximum (25.7°C) …
The glorious 12th – hottest day in central England
The 12th of August provisionally the warmest by day and by night The glorious 12th of August was provisionally …
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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 …
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31 July 2020 breaks date record set in 1943
Friday the 31st of July 2020 set a new date record for central England that has stood since 1943. …
How’s CET been faring over the last 12 months?
If you were expecting CET to be vying with previous years as the warmest on record, as it currently …
The addition of a new interactive moving average graph
I have added another new interactive graph of moving averages of monthly CET data to the website. Initially it …
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Monthly CET Table
I have now added a table of all annual, seasonal and monthly mean CET values to the blog. Any …
Revamped daily interactive graph
I have spent rather a lot of time this weekend, perhaps far too much time in revamping my daily …
Warmest 25th of June since 1772
The current heatwave has produced new highest maximum, minimum and mean temperature records, this time the mean temperature of …