UK's Coolest Summer Since 2015; First Significant Snows Forecast For The Alps; + 150 Years Of Antarctic Ice Data Reveals Decline In Wildfires Since 1920

This threatens a key pillar of the AGW hypothesis, suggesting that the oft cited pre-industrial CO2 baseline could be wrong.

UK's Coolest Summer Since 2015

The UK has just experienced a cooler than average summer, according to the Met Office, its coolest in nine years.

The highest temperature of the year came on August 12, when Cambridge briefly spiked to 34.8C (94.6F).

The last time the UK had a cooler-than-average summer was in 2015. Despite this significant deviation from "the Apocalyptic trend", the media is largely rug-sweeping the cool 2024, likely deeming it more a brief inconvenience than a potential reversal.

Data from the Met Office shows the mean daily temperature across the UK was 14.37C (57.87F), which is 0.22C (0.4F) below the long-term average. Daytime temperatures were particularly subdued, though cloudy skies kept the nights somewhat stable.

Warm spells were notably short-lived, concludes the Met Office in its seasonal report.

Rainfall came in at 241.3mm through June, July, and August, which is about average, meaning that even the official questionable data shows this summer has defied the climate cabal’s decrees that UK summers would be hot and dry. I say 'questionable' because of the extreme narrative the Met Office has endorsed, and for the countless 'tweaks' the agency performs—such as the inexplicable nudging-up of temperatures to avoid negative anomalies, as we saw for June:

Looking ahead this autumn, the cooler-than-average conditions are forecast to persist.

GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies for Sept 12 [tropicaltidbits.com].

First Significant Snows Forecast For The Alps

Similarly for the European mainland, a significant shift is looming, one threatening to deliver an early onset of autumn to much of the continent, particularly central and western regions, including tanking temperatures, and heavy snow in the Alps.

A wave of cold disturbances are forecast to barrel in from the Atlantic, fueled by descending polar air masses. These factors will aid in the dispelling of any lingering African heat to the south, pushing the anticyclone back to its original position and driving the northerly-riding Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) back from whence she came:

Chart showing the northward shift of the ITCZ vs historical average [for more].

Initial cold and wet conditions are forecast to start Sept 5, but the real impact will arrive Sept 9 through 15, when a much colder outbreak sweeps across Europe. This cold front will tank temperatures across the continent, definitively ending summer.