{"id":902,"date":"2018-02-09T07:44:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T07:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/?p=902"},"modified":"2019-02-09T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T10:41:53","slug":"uk-weather-tracker-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/uk-weather-tracker-january-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Weather Tracker #12 &#8211; January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I went online in January, I would find a headline promising an extreme cold snap in the UK which never materialised.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve grown tired and cynical of these headlines and given that the latest met office data shows that January 2018 was completely unremarkable, I think I am justified in this attitude!<!--more-->The meteorological year starts in December which is why December appears as the 1st data point in the charts below.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/uk-weather-tracker-1-february-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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 decile and minimum\/maximum are shown as solid black circles and any month with a new record is shown as solid black squares.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-949 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/UKweatherTracker201801new-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/UKweatherTracker201801new-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/UKweatherTracker201801new-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/UKweatherTracker201801new-1024x679.png 1024w, https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/UKweatherTracker201801new-450x298.png 450w, https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/UKweatherTracker201801new.png 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every chart has an open circle for each of the 6 measures indicating that January was another unremarkable month.\u00a0 Given all the news headlines about mega cold snaps coming our way which never materialise, I can&#8217;t help but think the media have run out of stories to print.\u00a0 There may well have been regional variations but where I live in the South West, I never felt the weather was unusual in any way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I went online in January, I would find a headline promising an extreme cold snap in the UK which never materialised.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve grown tired and cynical of these headlines and given that the latest met office data shows that January 2018 was completely unremarkable, I think I am justified in this attitude!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[40,34,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"tag-presenting-data","8":"tag-weather","9":"tag-weather-tracker","10":"entry","11":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}