By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
No doubt the alarmist media will dining out on this bit of news for a while!
The UK has provisionally recorded its warmest ever January temperature, as parts of Scotland hit 19.6C.
The temperature was recorded at Kinlochewe village in Wester Ross, in the Highlands, also making it a new winter record for Scotland, according to the Met Office.
Meteorologist Becky Mitchell told Sky News southern winds have dragged milder air from Africa across the UK, which have triggered higher-than-normal temperatures.
The winds are also bringing a Saharan dust cloud to parts of the UK, which may result in red dust settling on streets and cars over the next 24 hours.
The new record temperature beats the previous January highs of 18.3C set at Inchmarlo and Aboyne in 2003 and Aber in 1958 and 1971.
In January 1972, a foehn event caused the temperature in Montana, in the US, to rise from -48C to 9C – an increase of 57 degrees.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-records-its-warmest-ever-january-temperature-13058549
I wonder if they blamed the record on global warming in 1958?
In fact, as locals freely admit, Kinlochewe is a nice heat trap, surrounded as it is by mountains. One day’s temperatures there have zero significance from a climatological point of view.
In the rest of the country, it was a perfectly ordinary, mild day yesterday. The CET daily temperature reached just 11.9C, a figure which has been regularly exceeded in Januaries in the past.
Seventy years ago, January weather really was extreme, with heavy rain, floods, severe gales, alternating periods of extremely mild and very cold weather and thick snow:
Note those wind speeds. 84 kts at Renfrew is 97 mph, 76 kts at Southport equals 87 mph, both way above anything recorded this month, except for 800ft hills and the Needles.
I doubt they would have been worried about one mild day back then!
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