Category Archives: weather

How “weird” has UK weather been in 2012?

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Ed Hawkins

A recent article on the BBC website said: The UK has experienced its “weirdest” weather on record in the past few months, scientists say. The question today is then, is this true?

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The value of old weather observations

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Ed Hawkins

Previous posts have described some initial analysis of the data from the Old Weather project, which is using public volunteers to digitise new historical weather observations from Royal Navy ships during World War 1. The good news is that these … Continue reading →

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Reconstructing Atlantic atmospheric variability

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Ed Hawkins

In a previous post I discussed the Old Weather project which is using volunteers to transcribe the hand-written weather data from Royal Navy ships logs in the World War 1 period. The good news is the first 243 ships have … Continue reading →

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Learning about past climate from ships logs

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Ed Hawkins

Understanding the climate of the past is extremely valuable to help put modern weather observations into a long-term context. Although we have considerable records of past weather, especially over land, more data is always welcome. Given the British obsession with … Continue reading →

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