On Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:20:32 UTC+1, Scott W wrote:
Good points put forward by Simon Keeling to temper the nonsense and hysteria around today's 'climate summit' at UKMO



http://www.weatherweb.net/wxwebtvsimonnew.php?ID=778

The June of 1970 was the warmest of the century-the rest of that summer was rubbish!

On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:24:32 +0100
John Hall wrote:

In article ,
Graham Easterling writes:
There was another press splurge in 1970(?) that the cold summer -
particularly July - was caused by a cold pool lying from Labrador
to the UK. The Met Office blamed this on the melting of a record
number of icebergs off Newfoundland that year. That was a load of
nonsense as the cold water appeared before the icebergs melted.
Also the melting of the icebergs could not have created so much
cold water.


Wasn't that 1972? or maybe that was a similar year. I remember
the story, June was also very cool with maximums often stuck in
the high 50s (as we used to say).

I certainly don't think it was 1970, as I remember that as being about
the best summer between 1959 and 1975. Of course it's possible that my
memory is faulty, and it may also vary from region to region.

CET for Summer '70 was certainly above normal but that was mainly down
to a very warm June (2C above normal); July was cold but August was a
little above normal for that era. Seems like my memory of the Summer
was based on the unusual July which, although it was cold and more
cyclonic with stronger westerlies than usual, was very dry.

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