From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

Back to the Met Office’s State of the UK Climate 2023 report.

This time, a look at wind storms:

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joc.8553

Despite the plethora of silly names the Met Office has given every passing low-pressure system, and despite their persistent advertising of high wind speeds on top of mountains and clifftops as being representative, this new report admits that storms were much worse in the past:

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As well as peak speeds, mean wind speeds seem to have fallen over time as well:

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