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Thursday, 15 October 2026

Normal science is a thing of the past



'Normal weather' is a thing of the past, Met Office meteorologist says


  • Ian Lisk, chief meteorologist at the Met Office, has warned business leaders at the AirportsUK annual conference that “normal weather” is now a thing of the past.
  • Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe in the UK, with human-induced climate change heavily driving record temperatures.

The post headline could also read -

Normal science is a thing of the distant past or

Normal veracity is a thing of the distant past.

Both science and veracity in the public arena have become so corrupted in certain important contexts that 'normal' has come to signify 'corrupt' in those contexts. It has become 'normal' to propagate preposterous misinformation.

But we already know that. 

4 comments:

James Higham said...

Extremely pleased to be able to comment to the fullest extent on this perfect post, AKH.

A K Haart said...

James - thanks, but fortunately the perfect post is a mysterious impossibility so we can carry on blogging!

mikebravo said...

Surely the 'new' weather will be the 'normal'.
Or are we expected to be horrified every time we wake up and look out the window.

A K Haart said...

Mike - I'm not sure if we are still allowed to look out of the window at the weather, that's unofficial weather which hasn't been fact checked..