57.25689 -3.37894 No Met Office CIMO Assessment known. Installed 7/3/2025

Tomintoul is the highest village in the Scottish Highlands but curiously not the highest in Scotland – Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway is considerably higher. The area is noted for its distilleries which dominate the village. Being denoted “Number 6” suggests a long history of weather stations but that is quite wrong and the site is indeed very new.

So new is this site that I have been unable to find temperature records at all not only for Number 6 but similarly none at all for numbers 1 to 5 either. In fact records show they have only ever housed rain gauges indicated by “DR” – Daily Rain.

Number 6, however, is now being shown on the list of Synoptic and Climate stations as a fully reporting manual active site.

There are no streetview recent images to show the new site though this is not the main point of note here, rather a curious issue which comes from Wikipedia.

For such a very small village to have its own Wikipedia dedicated climate listing is incredibly unusual. The text is even more illuminating. {my bold},

“Tomintoul has an oceanic climate (Cfb), bordering on subpolar oceanic (Cfc). Since March 2025, Tomintoul has an official MetOffice weather station. Manual readings are sent to the Met-Office on a daily basis. The temperature values below are simulated and not taken from this weather station.^[26][27] “

What? Is even Wikipedia now pointing out that Met office claims from their Location specific Long Term Climate Averages are in fact “simulated”

Given the obvious point that Tomintoul has no published weather data other than rainfall readings it does rather follow that there can be no real climate readings as in the average of weather over a 30 year period. The definition of simulated being:

What is so insidious here is that Met Office fabricated/simulated non-data is now being taken for hard fact. Had the Wikipedia author not opted to include the “caveat” that data was simulated and omitted the station start date, nobody reading would likely have been any wiser. Numbers likely formulated from the likes of nearby summits and ski stations would simply be assumed to be correct on the basis of appeal from authority. The Met Office is, albeit indirectly, responsible for promoting complete fabrication as fact.

When data from Tomintoul 6 eventually becomes available I will examine both the numbers and the site. However, I suggest this site is already performing its function of producing a grossly inaccurate perception of reality.

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August 26, 2025 at 03:41AM

By Paul Homewood

 

h/t Paul Kolk

 

Today’s fake news from the BBC:

 

 

Scotland is known for its rainfall, famed as a lush, green, soggy nation.

Not this year.

Water levels are way below average after the driest spring since 1964 and a hot summer.

The problem is especially acute in the east of the country, where the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) is now introducing curbs on some water use.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qly7g9pepo.amp

So far, so good. Until, that is, they wheeled out the usual climate numptie, who is either utterly incompetent or lying through her teeth:

Part of the problem, he goes on, is Scotland’s relationship with rain, and the perception that in a land of more than 30,000 freshwater lochs, water must surely be abundant.

This, insists Dr Rebecca Wade, senior lecturer in environmental science at Abertay University in Dundee, is simply not the case.

"Our climate is changing which means that sometimes we have a lot less water than we’re used to having," she explains.

"Also, when we do get rainfall, it comes in a different pattern.

"So we might get a very intense short storm, and that could even cause localised flooding, but at the same time, it doesn’t resolve the drought situations because it’s not recharging the groundwater. It’s not filling up the reservoirs."

Are droughts getting worse in Scotland? Silly question really:

Not only was the dry spring this year not exceptional in the least, rainfall was above average in June/July!

And what of that nonsense about intense storms?

There is no evidence of this in the Met Office’s daily rainfall data for the three Scottish regions:

https://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi

Climate scientists are increasingly becoming lie the old Soviets – they are so immersed in their own propaganda and outright lies, that they end up believing it all themselves.

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August 26, 2025 at 03:25AM

By Paul Homewood

 

 

A recent article in the New York Times (NYT), “Cases of Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya Virus Are Surging Globally: What to Know,” claims climate change is causing the the spread of mosquito-borne diseases by expanding mosquitoes’ ranges. This is a scientifically unsubstantiated claim. The truth, grounded in actual data and entomological science, is that the spread of mosquitoes—and the viruses they sometimes carry—is closely tied to human activity, urbanization, and global transportation than to incremental changes in temperature and climate.

“A mosquito-borne virus that can leave infected people debilitated for years is spreading to more regions of the world, as climate change creates new habitats for the insects that carry it,” writes the NYT. “Climate change is driving the spread of chikungunya-carrying mosquitoes.

“A warmer, wetter world provides more suitable habitat,” continues the NYT. “And extreme weather events can cause more breeding in floods—or displace people, who cluster in areas with poor water and sanitation supply,” the NYT says.

It sounds dramatic, but the evidence undercuts this simplistic narrative. Let’s look at the facts.

Full story here.

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August 26, 2025 at 03:01AM

The Reform Party,which is currently leading in the UK polls, has publicly stated that it will lift the ban on fracking for gas, if it wins the next election. This is a bold move, as there is a small but dedicated band of extremists here who would cause a lot of trouble, such as "Just Stop Oil", and so they would need to act tough to stop them. It will be interesting to see how they get on.

Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms – BBC News

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August 26, 2025 at 01:31AM