Daily Temperature Highs

By Paul Homewood

Each day the Met Office publish the weather extremes for the day before.

Yesterday’s top temperature in the UK was at Heathrow (surprise, surprise!!).

Heathrow is a Class 3 station, which indicates just how bad the Class 4s and 5s are!.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/weather-extremes

This week I have been keeping track of the highs each day – none have occurred at Class1 and 2 stations. On Wednesday, Plymouth Kinterbury set the record but this station is so new it has not even been classified yet, although photos show it must be Class 5:

The Met Office also publish daily extremes by region. Yesterday’s were once again dominated by junk Class 4 and 5 sites.

Shoeburyness is the only Class 1 site. Given its location at the tip of the Thames estuary (just east of Southend). this would be a prime position to pick up any warm winds coming from the continent.

Otherwise, the dominance of junk sites cannot be a coincidence.

	Class
Frittenden	4
Usk	5
Gosport	3
Plymouth	N/A
Kinlochewe	4
Heathrow	3

It is worth noting that while Heathrow hit 20.3C and Coningsby reached 19.6C, Rothamsted in Hertfordshire, which is a Class 1 site, only hit 17C. All of the other English sites listed exceeded 18.5C.

Can it really be the case that Hertfordshire miraculously missed the warm weather? Or is poor siting responsible for the other stations being 2 degrees warmer?

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/gcpy8jchu

BTW – For anybody who thinks that Heathrow is a suitable place to use for climatological purposes and where temperatures are not artificially raised, the Met Office published this analysis in 2015:

https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2015/07/07/on-the-record-observing-a-heatwave/

Laughably they compared Heathrow’s temperatures with Kew, and concluded that because they were virtually the same, Heathrow’s were good to use!

Inadvertently, of course, they admitted that the runways and aircraft at Heathrow must be inflating temperatures there as much as the urban heat island does in the middle of London!

		Class
Highlands	Altnaharra	4
Grampian	Kinloss	4
Central Scot	Strathallan	4
Stratclyde	Dunstaffnage	4
Galloway	Charterhall	4
NE Eng	Albermarle	5
N Ireland	Killowen	5
Yorks	Hull	5
NW Eng	Nantwich	5
E Midlands	Coningsby	3
W Midlands	Wellesbourne	2
Wales	Hawarden	4
E Eng	Shoebury	1
SE Eng	Heathrow	3
SW Eng	Larkhill	4