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UK Weather Tracker #75 – April 2023

May 6, 2023 By Nigel

The weather in the UK in April was average, very very average!  All 7 weather variables that I track were close to their long run medians.
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UK Weather Tracker #74 – March 2023

April 3, 2023 By Nigel

As we move from February to March, it normally gets warmer and brighter in the UK.  Unusually, March 2023 was colder than February, it didn’t brighten and it was wetter than normal.  However the abnormality index says this is just typical British weather!
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UK Weather Trends #24 – Winter 2023

March 2, 2023 By Nigel

Winter 2023 was the 10th sunniest on record but I doubt we may have noticed.  There are indications now that our winters are entering a new era of being warm, wet & sunny.

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Filed Under: Weather Tagged With: multivariate data, Presenting data, principal components analysis, standardisation, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends, z-scores

UK Weather Tracker #73 – February 2023

March 1, 2023 By Nigel

It was the 7th warmest February on record in the UK whilst being dry and sunny.
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UK Weather Tracker #72 – January 2023

February 4, 2023 By Nigel

Did you know it was the 3rd sunniest January on record in the UK?  Neither did I but it was the only highlight of a thoroughly unremarkable month.
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UK Weather Trends #24 – Annual Temperatures in 2022

January 3, 2023 By Nigel

The 2022 calendar year was the hottest year on record in the UK beating the previous high recorded in 2014.  Does that mean that the UK is starting a new warming phase?  Using a technique known as a Control Chart, I show the answer is “Not Yet“.

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Filed Under: Weather Tagged With: SPC, Statistical Process Control, t-test, temperature, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends

UK Weather Tracker #71 – December 2022

January 3, 2023 By Nigel

After an entire meteorological year where the temperature above the median for ever single month, the new meteorological year of 2023 started with temperatures below the median.  We even had some snow here in Bath!
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UK Weather Trends #23 – Autumn 2022

December 4, 2022 By Nigel

The UK autumn in 2022 was the 3rd warmest on record and consistent with the step change in autumnal climate seen 25 years ago.

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Filed Under: Weather Tagged With: multivariate data, Presenting data, principal components analysis, standardisation, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends, z-scores

UK Weather Trends #22 – Summer 2022

September 7, 2022 By Nigel

The 2022 UK summer was the 4th warmest & 9th driest on record.  When looked at using principal components, the summer was definitely a good one and showed up yet again my inability to predict good summers!

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Filed Under: Weather Tagged With: multivariate data, Presenting data, principal components analysis, standardisation, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends, z-scores

UK Weather Trends #21 – Spring 2022

June 7, 2022 By Nigel

Spring 2022 was the 5th warmest on record and was mostly typical of the springs that we now get due to our changing climate.

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Filed Under: Weather Tagged With: multivariate data, Presenting data, principal components analysis, standardisation, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends, z-scores

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