Uk Historic Isotherm Map?

[muppet]

is there anywhere that publishes an historic UK monthly isotherm map ?

thanks in advance

[Terminal Moraine]

I can't think of one. The Met' Office used to do one years ago as part of one of their publications but with privatisation, and the radical pruning of their periodical and publication output, it will be long gone.

[Thundery wintry showers]

I imagine that it would be possible to produce approximate isotherm maps by generating some software code (using the likes of R, IDL, Matlab etc) that took the Met Office's regional temperature values and mapped them to their approximate positions in the UK. It would be quite a lot of work though.

[Interitus]

Depends how far back you want to go, but the Met Office website has charts from 2001 onwards.

One personal gripe; by and large the Met charts are useful, but some show a lack of basic cartographic skills with charts lacking sufficient or having poorly chosen gradation of values, or charts with different scales which make comparisons awkward.

Edited October 26, 2011 by Interitus

[muppet]

thanks, i can't see those Interitus, can you please post a link?

I'm guessing it's these?

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/anomacts/

I was after a 1*C isotherm interval rather than 2*C, but thanks anyway.

[phil nw.]

thanks, i can't see those Interitus, can you please post a link?

I'm guessing it's these?

http://www.metoffice...te/uk/anomacts/

I was after a 1*C isotherm interval rather than 2*C, but thanks anyway.

This is a link to the Met.Office page showing UK climate averages

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/averages/ukmapavge.html

It includes Temperature maps by month.

Hope this helps.

[Interitus]

I'm guessing it's these?

http://www.metoffice...te/uk/anomacts/

I was after a 1*C isotherm interval rather than 2*C, but thanks anyway.

Yes those are the charts and it would be good if they had finer temperature intervals. On the other hand though it's difficult to create charts with as much detail as these oneself because met office has access to much more temperature data and these charts are also adjusted for topography. Simple interpolation of data commonly in the public domain could give you 1 degree or tenth of degree intervals whatever, but they would probably be less accurate.