That doesn't gibe with what this article talks about...
Drier climate with far less rainfall in many places along with warmer than normal temperatures and the first time ever over 40C there along with more frequent and longer heat waves...
Wasn't London just dealing with days and days over 100 degrees and more in the 90s multiple times in the last few summers? Including setting all time record high temperatures?
London has had temps reach 30C or higher 116 times in the last 30 years and 59 of those happened in the last 10. Clearly this is showing a much higher frequency has its risen from 2.85 days on average per year in the first 20 years of that period to an average of 5.9 per year over the last 10, more than double.
Really extreme temps are even worse with 7 times in the last 30 years recording 35C or higher and 5 of those have been in the last 5 years. Went from once every 12.5 years to once a year. That's a massive increase in frequency.
Same with consecutive days above 30C...in the 1990s and 2000s only twice in each decade were there temps above 30C for 3 days in a row. Since 2017, every year other than 2021 has seen that happen now. Again, going from an average of once every 5 years to basically once a year again.
Yes, the average temperature in the UK has been increasing since the 1960s. In 2023, the average annual temperature was 9.97°C, which is just 0.06°C below the record high of 10.03°C in 2022. The decade from 2012 to 2021 was on average 1°C warmer than the 1961 to 1990 average, and all 10 of the UK's warmest years have occurred since 2003.
Also, according to historical records, it is warmer now than it was back then and English vineyards are at their height NOW, even surpassing what was grown back then...so that's a myth of you believe it was warmer back then...all evidence points to it being warmer now and likely far warmer on a yearly basis. Look at the temperature graph taking off over the last 20 years like a Bitcoin parabolic breakout out of a downtrend...it basically put in a giant green one hour candle on the chart.
All the evidence shows it is warmer now than it has been for at least the past 1000 years - and it is going to get even warmer
www.newscientist.com
The UK had the driest start to a year since the 1970s in 2022, with large parts of southern England receiving less than 50% of their normal winter rainfall.
research.reading.ac.uk
Consecutive days above 30C are becoming more common
www.independent.co.uk