**SATURDAY VIDEO** Weather Talk Ep 3: Interview with Aidan McGivern of the Met Office youtube.com/watch?v=G-8taW… Please LIKE, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE, Thx! A massive thanks to Aidan McGivern for taking the time to chat with me!

- Warmest May on record for minimum temperatures - Joint warmest May on record for maximum temperatures (joint first with 2018) - Warmest May on record for mean temperatures Minimum = 24-hour lows Maximum = 24-hour highs Mean = average of the previous two

If I go for a run on a sunny day in May with light winds and an air temperature of 18C, I will feel much hotter than someone who sits on a beach on a breezy and cloudy day in May with an air temperature of 18C. Both of us will feel warmer than someone who jumps in the 18C sea.

I’m probably in a minority of one here but… I’ve enjoyed June’s weather so far. Where I live, it’s mostly dry and sunny in a northerly. That’s a considerable improvement on the preceding 8 months of rain.

Even in a warming world, there are still some cold spots every month. UK was 0.4C below average in June 2024 with much of Western Europe including Iceland also below average. But globally, it was the warmest June on record and the 13th record-breaking month in a row.

UK summer so far has been remarkably cold by recent standards. Since the year 2000, only one year was this cold from 1st June to 8th July (2012) In the 1970s, five summers were as cold or colder up to this point (71, 72, 74, 77, 78) In the 1960s, also five (62, 64, 65, 67, 69)

Highest temperature recorded in July in the UK - each year of the 1970s versus each of the last 10 years. 7/10 Julys in the 1970s versus 10/10 more recently exceeded 30C (red). 1/10 Julys in the 1970s versus 5/10 more recently exceeded 35C (bold red).

The Met Office app / website doesn’t give 0% probabilities, the lowest is <5%. Also, predicting that the world will be warmer in 50 years if we continue to pollute the atmosphere is very different to predicting where showers will develop in two hours time.

Kew Gardens with the same maximum temperature as Heathrow today... nope can't spot a tarmaced runway or jet engine 'anywhere' in sight ... instrument enclosure at Kew captured below 😅

UK South Australia 🤝 Highest temperature on record in August (38.5C)

And, for western Scotland, Friday is likely to be the warmest day since May... or even the warmest day of the year so far (if 26 or 27C is recorded)

Great to chat to Aidan McGivern earlier on this week's Met Office Deep Dive, discussing the thunderstorms on Saturday evening/night... 🌩️ youtube.com/watch?v=AR6Egr…