By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
https://x.com/bbcweather/status/1830515469272358933?s=61&t=UCqwxPFZRwY2vmZsgipozQ
No doubt this grossly misleading story has been coordinated between the Met Office and BBC.
Tallbloke has Ray Sanders’ commentary on the Class 5 site of Wiggonholt, which clearly should be used for climatological purposes. As Ray points out, the recent introduction of dozens of Class 4 and 5 sites is clearly part of the Met Office’s strategy of focussing the public’s mind on “crossing thresholds”. What better way to do this than proclaim a totally fake temperature of 30C, well above anything in the surrounding area.
We have no idea of whether 30C is normal in September at Wiggonholt, because as Ray points out, the weather station was only installed in 1995, and most of the period since only had intermittent manual recordings.
But we do know that the CET shows no such heatwave trends that the BBC pretend exist:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/maxtemp_daily_totals.txt
The CET daily max on Sunday was only 23.5C, not unusual at all. But more importantly there has been nothing unusual about September temperature highs in recent years.
Of course CET temperatures will tend to be lower than somewhere in Sussex. But if there is no trend to hotter September days in the long running CET, any claim that one day at an extremely poorly sited station constitutes proof of climate change is shockingly dishonest.
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