Warmest spring since

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Records began, hottest May since records began.

Yawn yawn yawn

Have the met office got the contract for tannadice attendance figs as well. 😎

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How do they work out these figures. Dundee freezing 5 degrees, Pitlochry boiling 25 degrees.Average might be 15degrees. Are of Pitlochry 1 sq mile, area of Dundee say 2 sq miles. Do they manage to incorporate the area covered by the given temperature?

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How do they work out these figures. Dundee freezing 5 degrees, Pitlochry boiling 25 degrees.Average might be 15degrees. Are of Pitlochry 1 sq mile, area of Dundee say 2 sq miles. Do they manage to incorporate the area covered by the given temperature?

The figures are calculated by adding the maximum temperature during the day to the minimum temperature during the night and dividing by two to get the average temperature for the day.
It is likely that the minimum temperature during the nights in the past spring period have been milder than normal due to a lack of frost thanks to a lot more rainfall than normal in the south of England.
This results in the ‘warmest’ spring on record despite it not being particularly warm during the day time period.
The Climate Change ‘experts’ will twist weather records to suit their own agenda.

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How do they work out these figures. Dundee freezing 5 degrees, Pitlochry boiling 25 degrees.Average might be 15degrees. Are of Pitlochry 1 sq mile, area of Dundee say 2 sq miles. Do they manage to incorporate the area covered by the given temperature?

Averages mean nothing. If two people are going to get the five o clock train and the first arrives five minutes early and the second five minutes late on average they both catch the train. I rest my case!

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Averages mean nothing. If two people are going to get the five o clock train and the first arrives five minutes early and the second five minutes late on average they both catch the train. I rest my case!

What average measure are you applying here? Mean, median or mode?

How can someone arriving five minutes late to catch a train actually catch it? The 5 o'clock train leaves at 5 o'clock, if you get there at five minutes past you've missed it. If the train's late and the person arriving late catches it the reason isn't that they arrived late but that they were lucky because the train was running late. In this instance there's an external influence on the outcome, i.e. the train's on time departure which skews any data you might use to prove your theory.

I'm not sure that variance of train on time departure data would show a normal distribution if you used two and a half or five minutes late / early as your mean, but would be more than happy to be proven wrong. Obviously I haven't done the research and am simply challenging your rested case.

My theory is if you arrive five minutes late for 100 trains you'll miss more than you'll catch.

I also have a theory on climate change. Yes climate change is happening but it's more due to the fact that the planet is coming out of an ice age than Shell pulling oil and gas out of the North Sea. If us older folks cast our minds back to e=when we were young we can easily argue that summers were hotter and longer whilst winters were both colder at times and warmer at times and that there's no difference today. In 1976 when we had a long, hot summer followed by a harsh winter there were no climate activists around to warn of looming planetary disaster and lo and behold - no planetary disaster.

The other part of my theory on climate change is that if that bag of perfection and irrefutable climate knowledge Greta Thunberg was to be burned as a witch her carbon effect on the planet would surely be enough to counter all the fossil fuels burned in 100 years across the globe?

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Climate change has been happening since the earth formed.

It's being used by those who want to control the worlds people to restrict peoples lives.....that's all it is.

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Climate change has been happening since the earth formed.

It's being used by those who want to control the worlds people to restrict peoples lives.....that's all it is.

MSN are guilty of televising unseasonal weather in different parts of the world and using them as an excuse for climate change.
Interestingly MSN has not highlighted the fact that the weather forecast for D Day 6th June 1944 was very similar to the weather forecast for yesterday 5th June 2024.
However that does not suit their agenda plus the agendas of Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Patrick Harvie of the Greens.

[Dodbroon]

What average measure are you applying here? Mean, median or mode?

How can someone arriving five minutes late to catch a train actually catch it? The 5 o'clock train leaves at 5 o'clock, if you get there at five minutes past you've missed it. If the train's late and the person arriving late catches it the reason isn't that they arrived late but that they were lucky because the train was running late. In this instance there's an external influence on the outcome, i.e. the train's on time departure which skews any data you might use to prove your theory.

I'm not sure that variance of train on time departure data would show a normal distribution if you used two and a half or five minutes late / early as your mean, but would be more than happy to be proven wrong. Obviously I haven't done the research and am simply challenging your rested case.

My theory is if you arrive five minutes late for 100 trains you'll miss more than you'll catch.

I also have a theory on climate change. Yes climate change is happening but it's more due to the fact that the planet is coming out of an ice age than Shell pulling oil and gas out of the North Sea. If us older folks cast our minds back to e=when we were young we can easily argue that summers were hotter and longer whilst winters were both colder at times and warmer at times and that there's no difference today. In 1976 when we had a long, hot summer followed by a harsh winter there were no climate activists around to warn of looming planetary disaster and lo and behold - no planetary disaster.

The other part of my theory on climate change is that if that bag of perfection and irrefutable climate knowledge Greta Thunberg was to be burned as a witch her carbon effect on the planet would surely be enough to counter all the fossil fuels burned in 100 years across the globe?

I was only taking the p1ss! My point if there was one is that statisticians can mess about with figures to prove almost anything (as in lies, damned lies and statistics). As you rightly point out there are many forms of average. A 10° average day night temperature can be made up from 20° day/zero° night or alternatively 12° day/8° night. I'm sure statistics, averages etc. are routinely manipulated to suit the climate change agenda.

I agree with all your other stuff about climate change including the sainted Greta bit lol.

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I was only taking the p1ss! My point if there was one is that statisticians can mess about with figures to prove almost anything (as in lies, damned lies and statistics). As you rightly point out there are many forms of average. A 10° average day night temperature can be made up from 20° day/zero° night or alternatively 12° day/8° night. I'm sure statistics, averages etc. are routinely manipulated to suit the climate change agenda.

I agree with all your other stuff about climate change including the sainted Greta bit lol.

I knew you were taking the p1ss and so was I - for the same reason too. As you say damned lies. I studied statistics many years ago and you quite literally can justify anything with them and anybody can challenge them, usually very easily.