So it must be global warming, er climate change, er, climate emergency.
Londoners face one of the coldest April nights on record tonight as temperatures fall to -3C (27F) ahead of a chilly weekend – with the Arctic blast in Britain showing no signs of ending after further snow fell today.
The lowest ever temperature for Heathrow Airport, which is one of the capital’s main weather stations, in April is -3.1C (26.4F) in records going back 73 years to 1949. The all-time low was -12.8C (9F) set in January 1962.
And the mercury is expected to fall to around -3C (27F) at Heathrow tonight with a similar low also expected tomorrow night. Daytime temperatures are only expected to get to 9C (48F) tomorrow and 11C (52F) on Sunday.
It comes after temperatures last night fell to -8C (17.6F) at Tulloch Bridge in the Scottish Highlands; while Sennybridge in Powys, Wales, fell to -6.7C (19.9F); and England’s low was -4.8C (23.4F) at Bridgefoot in Cumbria.
The Met Office has also imposed a weather warning for ice covering much of the east coast of England from midnight tonight until 10am tomorrow, running from the Scottish border down to the bottom of Lincolnshire.
Or as the rest of us might like to call it, weather.
I find it surprising that this is being reported. For quite some time it has been crickets when records for cold temps have been surpassed while records for high temps, no matter how suspect, have been bellowed from the rooftops. Has it become impossible to maintain the pretence that it is getting ever hotter when it clearly isn’t? The question now is, how will the continued demonising of CO2 be maintained?
And getting on for two weeks now there has been a dead calm.
All those very expensive whirley things have hardly produced enough watts to boil an egg.
But just you wait. We will soon be paying their lucky owners to stop them when they produce too much power in the middle of the night.
Correct, and gov’t solution to our energy crisis: more windmills
MPs deserve a 50% pay cut, not another pay rise. An end of expenses milking too – Raynor’s ~£300 ear phones and Sunack’s ~£180 coffee mug.