Did it feel like the 2nd warmest September on record for you in the UK? I must confess that feeling passed me by since it was still cooler than August and the rest of the weather was completely unremarkable.
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UK Weather Trends #18 – Summer 2021
The UK summer in 2021 was warmer and dryer than normal but when looked at using principal components, the summer cannot be defined as a good one. I am not expecting 2022 to be a good one either!
UK Weather Tracker #55 – August 2021
The weather in the UK in August 2021 was totally and utterly unremarkable. Overall, Scotland & Northern Ireland had a hot summer and whilst England was above average, it was not notably so.
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UK Weather Tracker #54 – July 2021
The weather in the UK in July 2021 was warmer than usual but otherwise unremarkable.
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UK Weather Tracker #53 – June 2021
The weather in the UK in June 2021 was warmer than usual but otherwise unremarkable.
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UK Weather Trends #17 – Spring 2021
Spring 2021 was colder and sunnier than usual in the UK but otherwise unremarkable. However the 3 months of spring were anything but unremarkable.
UK Weather Tracker #52 – May 2021
April 2021 laid down the challenge for unusual weather in the UK and May 2o21 failed to rise to it. It was wetter and frostier than normal and generally colder and darker than usual but not to the extent that we could say May was unusual.
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UK Weather Tracker #51 – April 2021
Where do I start with the most abnormal April on record!? Believe or not after the sunniest April on record for the UK in 2020, 2021 bear even that but it didn’t stop there. April 2021 was also the frostiest on record by a long way, lowest ever rain intensity, 3rd highest daily temperature range and the 4th driest on record. You’ll never top that says April 2021!
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UK Weather Tracker #50 – March 2021
The meteorological year of 2021 has been extremely boring so far and March was no different. A bit stormier than usual, enough to cause a leak in my block of flats, but otherwise unremarkable.
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COVID19 Cases #2 – Is the UK an outlier internationally?
An unfortunate side effect of COVID19 has been ugly political debates over the best way to tackle the pandemic. Often politicians will claim because country X does this, the UK should be doing it as well. I decided it was time to do a proper comparison of the UK with other countries to see what extent the UK is an outlier and whether there are some countries we should be using as templates.
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