Thanks to Ed Hawkins for the link to this website via LinkedIn.
He explains all about the website here in this blog post.
Every hour a global set of automatic weather stations openly report temperature and other weather measurements - these are called ‘synops’. For the UK, you can now see the latest temperature observations in the context of the past few decades.What is 'normal’? For this website we use the temperature observed at the same time of day and time of year, averaged over the 1991-2020 period, as ‘normal’. We would love to use a time period that was longer ago, but the hourly observations required were not taken in enough places. Nevertheless, this tool allows anyone to see how hot (or cold) it currently is near where they live, relative to recent experience.
Site built by Dan Harris, supported by Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water.
Is the UK hotter than normal at the moment?
Site built by Dan Harris, supported by Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water.
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