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Maximum Central England Temperature, 2024

Month CET Anomaly notes
January 7.6 1.2
February 10.8 4.2
March 11.4 2.3
April 13.5 1.6
May 18.2 2.6
June 18.8 0.3
July 21.0 0.6
August 21.4 1.3
September 17.8 0.3
October 14.8 0.9
November 10.1 0.7
December 10.4 3.2 provisional to the 6th


  • Averages so far this year:-
    • Average CET to November: 15.06
    • Normal CET to November: 13.63
    • Anomaly to November: 1.43
    • Anomaly to December (year so far) *: 1.48

    * The anomaly for the year so far to December is calculated by taking an average
    of the monthly anomalies, weighted by the days in the month so far, over the total days in the year so far.
    This prevents the year so far anomaly value being skewed when calculated at the beginning of a month.


  • Comparison with Extreme Annual CETs:-

    The highest annual max CET ever recorded was 15.31, which is 2.23 higher than normal. To beat this record the
    anomaly must be higher than 12.47 for the remainder of this year

    The lowest annual max CET ever recorded was 10.54, which is -2.55 lower than normal. To beat this record the
    anomaly must be lower than -57.43 for the remainder of this year


  • This year's Daily Data to date

    Note that anomalies (and normals) quoted here are w.r.t. the period 1961-1990. This is a standard period  
    of reference for monitoring climate change as recommended by the WMO (World Met. Organisation).

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Daily CET for this year
Figure: Daily temperature values for the year against 1961-1990 climatology

Annual CET
Figure: Mean temperature anomalies for each full year in the CET series against 1961-1990 climatology

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