Category: Effects

Doughnut Summer 2023: Still On!

The September 2023 heatwave in England was, for the time of year, unprecedented in duration (7 successive days when 30C

In another notable year, June was the hottest month of Meteorological Summer 2023, the first time that has occurred since

We could be seeing an unusual event in the UK this year. June could be the warmest month of the

Shortly after I hit “publish” yesterday, the Met Office did the same. Their analysis of the UK temperatures this June

Once again the Met Office jumped the gun and declared, with several days still to go, that the UK will

It seems that records are now broken in any spell of hot weather. This year one particularly notable daily UK

I first started analysing the Central England Temperature (CET) record on Uncharted Territory back in 2010, because it seemed to

I compare summers in the Central England Temperature (CET) record in three ways: “High Summer” (July and August), Meteorological Summer

The temperature reached 22.9C in Kew Gardens on 29th October 2022, the highest in the UK so late in the

It puzzles me slightly that there is so much focus on the “meteorological summer” – June, July and August. June