CBE FREng. Chief Executive of the Met Office. Weather, climate, physics, digital & data, with a scatter of wildlife, Dartmoor, old churches and choral music
Prof Penny Endersby
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Feeling chilly after the end of the heatwave? Always worth a look at “Is the UK hot right now?” This is pretty typical nationwide for early June from the most recent 30 year average ending 2020. Every decade we update the average and it gets warmer each time.
Prof Penny Endersby
Top marks to @mykl.sparkle.blue for spotting that UK state had a secret 200-year project to hide an image of St Paul's in its tax data:
#LawnFlowers for #WildflowerHour and nearly all with #PollinatorPals just to show why #NoMowMay is helpful. The thick-legged flower beetle on the corky-fruited water dropwort is a great name combo 🪲 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Devon has amazing #ChurchyardFlowers. These at Exeter Cathedral are probably a meadow mix but much nicer than the patchy turf and builders’ yard which preceded them. The Close is mainly public turf, so any little bit of wild area is a blessing. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Last month FastNet, the AI weather model we're developing with @metoffice.gov.uk, predicted the high temperatures of May's heatwave 84hrs ahead.
It captured the highest midday temperatures more closely than the current operational physics-based global model.
Learn more: bit.ly/47JvdRm
I don’t know if it’s a comfort that the red map hostility extends to France or not TBH.
Prof Penny Endersby
Prof Penny Endersby
It looked for a while as though May might be an increasingly unusual cooler than average month, until the recent heat pulled it to the third warmest May on record for the UK. Details of all of Spring across the UK in the blog below
Dan Neidle
Memories of the Summer of 1976 endure in the British memory, 35.9 °C, parched fields, standpipes in the streets.
50 years on and, in the last decade alone, temperatures above 36 °C have been recorded on six days in the UK and the UK’s highest record temperature now stands at 40.3 °C.
