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It seems to have escaped everyone\u2019s attention yet again, but if we draw a horizontal line on a graph of temperature versus time of the year at, say, 10\u00baC, there is a tendency for the actual temperature to be below 10\u00baC in winter and above 10\u00baC in summer. It\u2019s funny, I know. But as far back as I can remember, that\u2019s the way it\u2019s always been.<\/p>\n
In 2017, for example, the mean UK temperature for each month is shown in the graph above. Notice how spring and summer was warmer than autumn and winter.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s add 2018\u2019s data so far to this graph.<\/p>\n
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The only anomaly – if you can call it that, since February and March were a lot colder than last year – is July. Nevertheless, this is sufficient for the amateurs who go under the title of \u201creporters\u201d for rags like the Daily Mail and The Sun to get their rulers out, draw a line through May, June, and July, and start predicting that we\u2019re all going to die because by October it\u2019ll be above 60\u00baC. Of course, come September, they\u2019ll be predicting the usual Ice Age accompanying \u201cthe coldest winter on record\u201d (and that\u2019s an actual quote from at least one of those two comics over each of the last three or four years).<\/p>\n
Yes, it\u2019s been hot. But it\u2019s not like we haven\u2019t had hot spells before. Just like when it\u2019s cold, it isn\u2019t like we haven\u2019t had cold spells before, either. And it goes up and down throughout the year as we pass through the seasons. Furthermore, even though it has been hot, this year\u2019s \u201chot\u201d has been quite pleasant most of the time (and I hate hot weather) since it hasn\u2019t been accompanied by the usual humidity we tend to get in the UK.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the same chart with 1976 added to it.<\/p>\n
When you look through the data from 1910 until the present, July had the same mean temperature recorded for 1983. It was slightly hotter in 2006, and almost as hot in 2013. Other years have simply fallen within the range.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no question that average temperatures have risen over the last hundred years or so – especially since the 1950s – but that doesn\u2019t mean that any new high or low is a sign of Armageddon. Most of it comes down to the Jet Stream. The last few years, it\u2019s spent summer down by the equator, flinging low pressure system after low pressure system at the UK. This year, it\u2019s vacationing somewhere up near Iceland, and fairly consistent high pressure is pulling air up from Europe. It happens.<\/p>\n Sometimes, I\u2019m embarrassed to be British. We moan when it\u2019s hot, we moan when it\u2019s cold. We moan when it\u2019s wet, and we moan when it\u2019s dry. We moan if it\u2019s a crap summer, and we moan if it\u2019s not. For f*$k\u2019s sake, get a life, people. It\u2019s been one of those \u201cglorious\u201d summers just over 50% of the twats out there voted to go back to in 2016. Enjoy it – you might not be able to afford the next one.<\/p>\n Just remember. In a couple of months it\u2019ll be bloody cold again. And probably wet – just like it was before it got hot this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems to have escaped everyone\u2019s attention yet again, but if we draw a horizontal line on a graph of temperature versus time of the year at, say, 10\u00baC, there is a tendency for the actual temperature to be below 10\u00baC in winter and above 10\u00baC in summer. It\u2019s funny, I know. But as far […]<\/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":[98,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit","category-weather"],"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\/22260","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=22260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"UK](\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/uk_temp_171876.png\" "\\"UK")
Fair enough, this July was about 1 degree hotter, but other than that there\u2019s nothing much different. Christ, I was in a maths lesson at school in June in \u201876 and it snowed on the 14th (or was it the 12th\u2026 whatever), and it\u2019s not done that<\/strong> since!<\/p>\n