Met Office “Record Rainfall” Claims Exposed as Fake
It was a dull, damp month, but it was certainly a long way from the being the wettest February on record. Twenty-five years had wetter Februarys in the UK. It was therefore a surprise when the Met Office announced that this year Worcestershire saw its wettest February on record since 1836.
The announcement was naturally accompanied by the usual blaming of climate change, with the BBC claiming without any evidence that increased burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil causes heavier rainfall.
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Sadly like NASA the Mets only raison d’etre is to push the climate scam or lose funding.
Like all them once great institutions including the office for national statistics, they are political bodies employing connartists with no integrity in their work.
Plant food, 400 parts per million which falls out of climate processes, causes heavy rain in one particular shire but not in my shire? If it was a dry Feb the same blame would be ascribed to the same trace chemical. Zero Science. 100% propaganda and corruption. Any who believe are 100% stupid.
I don’t for a second think it’s anything to do with anthropogenic climate change, but, anecdotally, it was the wettest start to a year I can remember. And my lived experience makes it a fact!
It may well be a fact but what do you think it actually means?
I recall the summer of 1995 when there was blue skies all the way from April to September. Many people do not believe me when I tell them that, and because it is so long ago they find it hard to believe.
But a quick Google will reveal it is exactly true. I can remember putting on my shorts every morning because I had become so accustomed to it being sunny. ——-So what does this year having a lot of rain and 1995 having a lot of sun actually mean? ——It means that the climate is Naturally Variable, and we both know that from “lived experience”
Quite. My memory takes me back to being a child in the 70s and spending six weeks of the summer holiday playing football and running around in the baking sun. Was that a dream?
Agreed. 1995 was the hottest of the past 30 years in my lived experience and have been saying so for many years. We happened to buy one of those ariel photos of the farm and land on which we live and it is parched. We have randomly bought others since and drier years are obvious. 1975 & 76 were exceptionally memorable as well – in my case for a 21/2 y.o. cycling to work across London and to/from evening entertainment in shirt sleeves.
Have you got any unloved experience to call upon FL?
Oh, yeah, lots. One of the joys of being a miserable sod that seems to disagree with everyone!
Certainly here in Essex it felt like a very wet month. However, I don’t think we necessarily had record totals. Rather, it was the number of days on which it rained that was unusual for us. All it takes is a blocking high pressure system in the wrong place, and we’re stuck under leaden skies for weeks at a time. That’s just what the weather does, and what it’s always done.
i thought I’d read the large volcano eruption was thought to be a contributing factor
By “lived experience”, is that we ordinary people call “life”?
I have been (non-scientifically) measuring our rainfall since Jan 23 and January ’26 was definitely the wettest month ‘on (my) record’! Notably we had something like 28 inches (old money!) from 1st Nov last year to end of Feb. (27.6 inches to be precise). We are noticeably much drier than most being on the S coast of Cornwall so it must have been very wet in land. Local BBC weather claimed the wettest January for Cornwall on record. Haven’t got the patience to test it, but I can see why it was worth their while saying as much.
Weather in the UK is incredibly changeable. Our Grandparents knew that and you would often hear them say to each other in the street “Well, what is it to be today then”? or after a morning of lashing wind and rain and then a beautiful sunny afternoon you would hear them say “You get all the seasons in one day”. Today I hear my Sister in Law say “The weather is all messed up”, but when people say things like that what are they comparing? You will hear them say “When I was young the tar was melting on the road” or “The snow was 5 feet thick”. So because there is such natural variation in the UK Climate people are susceptible to claims by the Political Class backed up by Mainstream Media that the climate is changing and we are seeing extreme weather events and rising temperatures because of Global Warming caused by our use of fossil fuels. This then leads to an acceptance that we must be rid of fossil fuels and use Renewables instead. So when my Sister in law said “The weather is all messed up” because she has allowed propaganda to influence her thinking I… Read more »
I’m sure the MET will have falsified data, but – living in rural North Dorset as I do – it WAS an extremely wet winter in North Dorset and Somerset.
The village was cut off by flooding for several periods and trying to get through the lanes to an A Class road was an exercise in “guess which lane might be passable if you go through the floodwater carefully.”
But most of the flooding will be a result of farmers being prosecuted for clearing drainage ditches by the Environment agency, who took all responsibility, and subsequently, no care whatsoever for clearing said ditches.
You have a point. My mother recalls how, when she was a child, there were many more people involved in agriculture than there are now. To keep them occupied in the winter months, when farm work was in short supply, they would be dispatched on “hedging and ditching” duties, thus keeping watercourses clear and free-flowing, limiting flooding.
Back then, more people had front gardens, which could help absorb heavy rainfall. Nowadays the majority of front gardens have been covered with hard surfaces to provide parking for vehicles, increasing the rate at which rainwater runs off into the drainage system. The growing spread and density of urban development helps accelerate runoff, and we all know about the problems of development on flood plains.
It all adds to the view that flooding is much worse than it ever was before, and that we’re responsible. Well, maybe we are, but not in the way the MSM and governments want us to believe.
That may be partly responsible; but the flooding was caused by springs rising as well as rain coming down and rivers/streams which couldn’t cope with the 6-week long deluge.
“6 week long deluge”. Careful, you’re starting to sound like the Met Office!
I concur with the observation that the default weather in winter was rain. The park north of the Thames in Reading got flooded (Christchurch Meadows) but this happens every couple of years. However, the Somerset Levels weren’t under water for weeks on end and hence, it was decidedly less bad than 12 years ago.
Judging from news on the internet, Somerset sufferent a “declared emergency” this year, that is, someone declared an emergency and then had to withdraw it again because no emergency manifested itself. I’ve also come accross a slew of hysteric statements by the UN, roughly “the climate has been all messed up by Europeans burning stuff and we will have to live with the emergency for thousands of years¹!” Presumably, that’s mostly anti-Trump noise and supposed to shore up support in Europe as parties demanding an end to “the climate swindle” (AfD) keep gaining popularity.
¹ If we will live with it for thousands of years, it cannot be that much of an actual danger. Someone seems to have made a framing mistake here. 🙂
Lowestoft weather station 52°29’01.1″N 1°43’29.8″E. A classic Met Office fake weather station.
Or, as it is now known: 3 Nursery Close, Lowestoft, NR32 3FF. A three bedroom detached house, not a Stephenson’s Box.
Just one of many.
It seems perfectly clear that the volume of egg dripping from the faces of Met Office staff is directly proportional to the number of of claims they make that climate change causes bad weather.