She has a voice of authority.
That's always good
enough for leftists.
Monthly rainfall figures
in England go back to 1862.
The following chart
plots the 100 driest
and 100 wettest months:
There is no evidence
that rainfall is becoming
more extreme in England
(either wetter or drier)
The whole record
is full of extreme
wet and dry months,
in most years.
In the last ten years,
there have been eleven
entries, for an average
of 1.1 a year,
compared to the
full dataset average
of 1.58 a year.
Th eleven
recent entries
were six
unusually wet,
and five
unusually dry
months.
Sudden switches
from wet to dry,
and vice versa,
happened in 1865.
In September that year,
only 13.4mm of rain fell,
making it the second driest
September in the whole record.
A month later,
169.1mm fell,
making that
the second
wettest October.
The whole series
is full of similar
occurrences.
Bentley was taking
short periods as the
“climate”.
The Word Meteorologist
Organization defines climate
as periods over 30 years:
Liz Bentley is
a meteorologist,
so ought to
know better
than to attribute
weather events
to “climate”.
Climate science
should also
face up to
the reality that
“unprecedented”
weather
does not prove,
“human cause”,
yet that is usually
the underlying
assumption.
If geology was being taught
in high schools, changes
in climate would be
no big deal -- they happen
on huge scales over time.
British weather
is FULL of
classic reverses
as the jet stream
swings.
1921 – practically the driest
year ever – sandwiched
between two wet years.
Record heat of 1911
and the wet and cold of 1912.
There was the long,
hot summer of 1959,
followed by the wet 1960.
1947, with February
and August rainless
in some areas
and yet February
was record cold,
August record hot
and March was
record wet.
1976 had months
of drought and
a hot summer,
abruptly shifting
in 48 hours at the
end of August to
months of clouds
and rain.
The habit of dividing
the year by months
can be misleading,
If you get two weeks
of torrential rain
in February it might
qualify as a record month.
But if exactly the same
two weeks of rain fell
in the last week of February
and the first week of March,
you may simply get two
ordinary months.
In the US, if not elsewhere,
1917 was the coldest year
on record (and still is).
Just four years later 1921
was the warmest on record,
and would still be if NOAA
hadn’t lowered the official
1921 numbers to make
2012 the warmest.