A Fresh And Fruity Look At Spring 2024 (part 1)

The Met Office are trying to convince us that it was well and truly warm this spring despite folk resorting to Norwegian socks, hot water bottles and bobble hats, so I took a peek at some data.

Hopefully readers will have already seen my recent rant on Substack Notes. Entitled Cheque Book Science: A Note, these tetchy words tell the tale of the demise of old-school science from my angle as a G7 government scientist in the thick of it back in the ‘90s. If you haven’t read the note please do, for it might cough-up a missing piece of the jigsaw for you.

BTW If I’m going to rant – or even share recipes – then Substack notes is where you’ll find me, so it’s worth keeping an eye out from time to time.

Now a rant is one thing but it ain’t science. For that we need tray bakes, and so I decided to whip-up some fresh and fruity tray bakes for us all based on the screenshot that got me growling yesterday. Here’s that screenshot again:

There are a couple of larders I could raid, so after a refreshing hot lemon tea I decided to turn to KNMI climate explorer and pull down all weather stations in the UK that are part of NOAA’s Global Historical Climatology Network Daily database (GHCNd). The…