Climate scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading | IPCC AR6 Lead Author | MBE | Views own | https://edhawkins.org
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Ed Hawkins
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Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
So, Reading University recorded 33.1°C today, which beats the previous all-UK May daily record.
Kew Gardens says, “hold my beer”, recording 35.1°C.
For the same weather patterns, these temperatures would have been low-30s in a past climate.
Burning fossil fuels has made these heatwaves hotter.
(The film does make a few slightly inaccurate choices for dramatic reasons, but the story told is essentially true.)
On the anniversary of D-Day, thank you to Group Captain James Stagg and his team of meteorologists, whose weather forecasts enabled the success of the allied invasion today in 1944.
And you can watch the true story of how forecast was made in the cinema in September:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQw...
Oxford's temperature of 33.7ºC on Tuesday was more statistically anomalous than the Lytton, BC heatwave in June 2021, using standard deviations from a detrended 1991-2020 average for both locations. A staggering statistical anomaly that shows the gravity of the records broken.
