{"id":13729,"date":"2013-08-31T08:49:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=13729"},"modified":"2013-08-31T08:49:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:49:55","slug":"long-hot-summer-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=13729","title":{"rendered":"Long Hot Summer 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer 2013 has been the warmest, driest, and sunniest since 2006<\/a>. It\u2019s likely to be one of the top 10 hottest, 16th driest, and 7th sunniest since records began. This is official \u2013 from the Met Office.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s important that we remind ourselves of what the Met Office was saying<\/a> only three months ago. It was reporting that we\u2019d have no summers for the next decade \u2013 The Guardian reported<\/a> on this, as did The Independent<\/a>, and the Daily Mail<\/a>, etc. The best part in all the reports was:<\/p>\n

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Met Office experts who got together to discuss recent unusual weather patterns predicted yesterday that Britain faces a decade of wet summers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, everyone knows what this summer has really<\/strong> been like \u2013 after all, when one is classed as \u201cthe 16th driest\u201d it can hardly be simultaneously classed as a \"Awet one. It\u2019s still going on even now, as we enter autumn, and it looks likely to continue for a while yet if the Jetstream forecasts are anything to go by.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m surprised that no one has hit on the Met Office over this. They haven\u2019t successfully forecast any single part of this summer \u2013 when you look at the original stories, it was like them betting their entire pile of chips on red, but having it come up black. They were 180\u00b0 degrees wrong!<\/p>\n

Mind you, this year has thankfully been free of any involvement by Exacta<\/a> or Jonathan Powell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer 2013 has been the warmest, driest, and sunniest since 2006. It\u2019s likely to be one of the top 10 hottest, 16th driest, and 7th sunniest since records began. This is official \u2013 from the Met Office. I think it\u2019s important that we remind ourselves of what the Met Office was saying only three months […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}