A Fresh And Fruity Look At Spring 2024 (part 2)
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 mean temperatures 1659-2024
In my freebie article entitled A Fresh And Fruity Look At Spring 2024 I used NOAA’s Global Historical Climatological Network Daily (GHCNd) database to get a handle on land surface temperatures across the UK for the month of May and for the entirety of spring (MAM) of this year but found it had more holes than my kitchen colander. I then flipped to frying a dollop of data from the Met Office that turned out to be hole-free, though a trifle on the small side, offering a sample of just 34 useable weather stations. This morning I’m going to pull down data from the longest running temperature record in the world – the Central England Temperature Record (HadCET) – that got going way back in 1659. You read that correctly - 1659 - when Richard Cromwell, third son of Oliver Cromwell and Lord Protector of all England, was throwing his weight around.
Before I bake the first slide I’d like to just say a few more words about the since records began ear-worm that the Met Office grind out each time t…