The Temperature Of The UK Over The Last 100 Years (part 4)
A butcher's at daily maxima and minima over the last 100 years. Are things getting worse, and what does ‘worse’ mean?
Just as things were getting interesting in part 3 the meter ran out. We took another look at just 2 UK weather stations (Heathrow Airport and Wick Airport) and I used their mean daily maximum temperature records (tmax) to explain a few things about temperature anomalies. We saw how useful anomalies can be, and we saw how they can easily deceive the naked eye if you are not used to working with them. I then cooked-up another estimate of the urban heat island effect (UHIE) that fetched-up at 1.6°C over 70 years, this comparing favourably with my first estimate of 1.8°C per century that may be found in this newsletter.
Plat Du Jour
Today I’m going to wear a clean apron because I’m going to be cooking-up a very special dish indeed, this being the anomaly series for mean maximum daily temperature (tmax) derived from all 34 stations in the sample. I encourage folk with plenty of spare time to do the same by using the historic data the Met Office thoughtfully supply on this page.
Today’s meal …