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 since 2010 with a mean temperature of 1.06°C which is -2.48°C below the 1961-1990 LTA for that …
Statistics
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 mean daily temperature. This plot shows a 30 day centred mean temperature and nicely shows just how …
Warmest first of November
Provisionally Sunday, the first of November 2020, was the warmest by day since at least 1878 with a temperature of 16.8°C which was 4.4°C above the 1961-1990 LTA for that day. I think some were under …
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 of 10.53°C ending up just slightly colder (-0.09°C) than the 1961-1990 LTA. The first three weeks of …
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 temperature series that started in 1878. Of course you wouldn’t expect each day of the year to …
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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) since 1878 in Central England. The previous highest mean was back in 1947 (18.8°C) and the highest …
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 the warmest for that day in the daily record that started in 1878, and beat the previous …
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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 ranked list of coldest months, seasons and years in the central England series. The reason I know …
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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. The maximum of 33.2°C with a massive anomaly of +12.95°C, broke the long standing 30.9°C record set …
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 is with regard to global temperatures, then I’m afraid you would be very much mistaken. Although daily …
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 defaults to displaying a 13 month for the last 30 years in the upper line graph, and …
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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 of the columns can be sorted to find the ranked list of coldest and warmest periods since …
Revamped daily interactive graph
I have spent rather a lot of time this weekend, perhaps far too much time in revamping my daily interactive CET graph. Hopefully I’ve improved how it looks and how it works, as I brush up …
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 23.0°C on the 25th of June was the highest since the daily series began in 1772, the …
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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May 2020
May 2020 in central England was a very mild month with mean temperatures of 12.49°C, which was 1.33°C above the 1961-1990 LTA. The high number of very warm days that occurred during the second half of …
Spring 2020
It is not that surprising that meteorological spring 2020 was yet another very mild affair when 30 out of the last 32 springs in central England were also above average. I made the mean temperature 9.88°C, …
