“Hottest Bank Holiday” Is Just Normal Weather

By Paul Homewood

The latest Met Office inspired propaganda, gleefully trumpeted by the BBC.

Note how they conflate it with the record temperature at Cambridge last month:

It has been the hottest late August Bank Holiday Monday ever, as temperatures soared across the UK.

Temperatures had reached 33.2C (91.8F) at Heathrow by 14:16 BST, the Met Office said, beating the previous record of 28.2C set two years ago….

Last month, the UK’s highest ever temperature was officially recorded in Cambridge at 38.7C.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49471053

Given that the late August bank holiday only began in 1966, the “hottest ever” really means the hottest in the last 54 years.

Bank holiday is, needless to say, just the same as any other day statistically, With 31 days in August, on average you would expect to set a new temperature record for any one day every couple of years.

So how did this week’s temperatures stack up against other August days in the past?

The Met Office loves to use Heathrow and other cherry picked sites to claim records and “prove” climate trends. But the only long term database of daily temperatures available and capable of providing long term trends is the Central England Temperature series, or CET.

The highest daily maximum temperature on CET this month was 28.8C on Sunday, 25th. The actual Bank Holiday Monday registered 26.0C.

Since daily records began in 1878 in CET, there have been 68 days in August which have been 28C and over. In other words a common occurrence. There have also been 43 days which have equalled or beaten the 28.8C set on Sunday.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cetmaxdly1878on_urbadj4.dat

The hottest days were in 1990, with 33.2C and 32.8C set on consecutive days.

Since 2005, only two August days have exceeded 28C, one this year and the other in 2013.

The evidence is abundantly clear, that hot August days have actually been a rarity in recent years, not least this one, contrary to the Met Office’s fake claim.

It is also implied though that there is something unusual about temperatures being this high at the end of August.

Anybody who thinks this should look at September temperatures in 1906 and 1911. On 1st and 2nd September 1906, CET reached an astonishing 31.3C and 31.0C respectively.

Five years later, temperatures peaked at 29.6C as late as the 8th.

They put this week’s temperatures into the shade.

Meanwhile according to the BBC:

The government’s advisory Committee on Climate Change has warned the UK is not prepared for the increase in heatwaves that is expected with global warming.

Sure looks like it, doesn’t it?