A Fresh And Fruity Look At Spring 2024 (part 3)
The Met Office are trying to convince us that it was well warm this spring despite folk resorting to hot water bottles and bobble hats, so I took a look at HadCET daytime temperatures 1878-2024
In the previous article in this series we took a look at the mean temperature for Central England from the days of Richard Cromwell to Rishi Sunak and ran screaming from the kitchen to throw soup on artworks and superglue bits of ourselves to things. I note that no biological male identifying as he/him has super-glued his manservant to a revolving door as yet but we can but hope. The reason for this autolytic1 hysteria is that we discovered apocalyptic runaway spring warming for central England from 1975 onward as a result of incredibly selfish, totally dangerous and utterly shameful fossil fuel use.
But did we really discover runaway warming?
Yer Means, Innit?
I must remind readers we are once again basing our conclusions on mean temperatures, being an equal mixture of daytime maxima and nighttime minima. The mean (a.k.a. average) of anything actually does not physically exist for it is a mathematical construct. Penguins do not lay average eggs, they lay real eggs that we may define as b…