{"id":5122,"date":"2023-06-06T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2023-09-10T22:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T21:14:48","slug":"uk-weather-tracker-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/uk-weather-tracker-may-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Weather Tracker #76 – May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather in the UK in May was warmer and drier than usual but otherwise unremarkable.
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The meteorological year starts in December which is why December appears as the 1st data point in the charts below.\u00a0 More information on the layout of the charts can be found in this pos<\/a>t.\u00a0 Points lying between the upper and lower deciles are shown as open black circles, points lying between the lower\/upper deciles and minimum\/maximum are shown as solid black circles and any month with a new record is shown as solid black squares.\u00a0 All data is supplied by the Met Office and can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Every month I update 7<\/strong> charts in all.\u00a0 I rotate which 6<\/strong> appear in the deck above and \"\"plot the 7th<\/strong> as a separate chart here.\u00a0 Between November & February, Sunshine (chart G) is shown here since that is of least interest in these months.<\/p>\n

How abnormal was May 2023?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

\"\"Chart H displays my UK Weather Abnormality Index<\/strong><\/span> (see my May 2019 post for details<\/a>).\u00a0 The closer to zero this index is, the less abnormal and thus more “average<\/em>” a month is.\u00a0 The higher it is, the more abnormal the month is.\u00a0 When the index is over 100%<\/strong>, we can describe the month as unusual in some way.<\/p>\n

The abnormality index was 67% <\/strong>this month, which was in line with the median.<\/p>\n

Regional Variations<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

\"\"May marks the end of the meteorological spring.\u00a0 I do not track regional statistics every month but I do track temperature by season for each region so I can update the regional temperature chart here.\u00a0 This shows the Z-Score for each region for the 2023 spring\u00a0 A Z-Score is simply the regional temperature minus the long term average for that region divided by the long term standard deviation for that region.\u00a0 Doing this, gets around the issue that each region is different on average whereas z-scores all have the same scale, namely number of standard deviations above or below the long term average.<\/p>\n

The spring was the 23rd warmest on record in the UK overall.\u00a0 There was a regional divide though with the western side of the UK experiencing\u00a0 warmer spring than the eastern side.\u00a0 \u00a0For more details about the 2023 spring, click on the link provided in the list below.<\/p>\n

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PS: If you bookmark this link<\/a>, it will be refreshed with the latest month’s data.\u00a0 I usually post the update in the first week of each month.<\/em><\/p>\n

Click the relevant month to see what the weather was back then.\u00a0 Months highlighted in bold had an abnormality index exceeding 100% indicating unusual weather.\u00a0 Alternatively click the Weather Tracker<\/a> hash tag below this post to see a list of all such posts.<\/p>\n