Claim: Britain’s Junuary 2024 Only Felt Cold Because of Climate Change
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Essay by Eric Worrall
Apparently you soft Brits have become so used to mild global warming weather, an almost normal Summer felt freezing cold.
Average months now feel cold thanks to climate change
Published: July 3, 2024 9.20pm AEST
Matthew Patterson
Postdoctoral Researcher, Atmospheric Physics, University of Reading
People in the UK love discussing the weather. For the first two weeks of June 2024, the cold, dull conditions were all they could talk about. Major news outlets like the BBC, the Guardian, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph all carried stories on this theme.
The colder start to June was driven by winds from the north, bringing cool polar air down towards the UK. However, in the second half of the month, a high-pressure system took over and temperatures picked up, reaching 30.3°C on Wednesday 26.
In reality, June 2024 temperatures were pretty typical, about 0.4°C below the long-term average. The month was drier than usual and sunshine hours were slightly above average for the UK as a whole, though significantly below average in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/05/claim-british-summer-2024-only-felt-cold-because-of-climate-change/
