by P. Homewood, Jan 7 ,2024 in NotaLotofPeopleKonwThat
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadukp/data/monthly/HadEWP_monthly_totals.txt
Last year was a wet one in England & Wales, the 7th wettest on record. (The UK series has a similar result).
We routinely hear claims that the climate is wetter because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, (while also being told we will get more droughts!). However the fact that we have had similarly wet years in the distant past, such as 1768, 1852, 1872, 1877, 1882, 1903 and 1960, rather demolishes that argument.
The major factor behind last year’s high rainfall was that the number of rain days was also one of the highest on record since 1931, when Met Office daily data begins. In short, annual rainfall was high because of weather, not climate.
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by K. Hansen, Jan5, 2024 in WUWT
Roger Pielke Jr. recently posted a piece at The Honest Broker titled: “U.S. Climate Extremes: 2023 Year in Review – A Very Normal Year” – which was subsequently reposted at WUWT.
In that post, he uses this graphic:
(I have increased the size of the titles for clarity – kh)
It is easy to see that the trends of both the Maximum January temperatures and the Maximum July temperatures have been rising — more so for January temperatures than July — though this is somewhat obscured by the different scales of the two graphs. [Caveat: The temperature record on which this graph is based is not scientifically reliable before about 1940.] Also, one has to be careful to note what exactly they are really measuring.
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