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Is it possible that David Cameron in Britain is colder than Tony Blair place? Or less sun? Well, maybe.

For those who think that the United Kingdom has become - like Narnia under the White Witch - in a country where it is "always winter and never Christmas" we wonder how the climate has changed with this government - and how it compares to previous games of power.

comfortably Met Office publishes monthly averages for sunshine, rainfall and temperature in place. So we took the data and analysis of oil on it to resolve the dispute for each month of each first rule ministers from the average of ten years before coming to power. So if the average of each July that the government was in power was higher - or lower - the average of the decade before arriving, we thought it might be interesting

This is the aspect of the data. Apparently, according to David Cameron, was cooler and less sunny - but there has been less rainfall too. According to Tony Blair, had more sun and warmer temperatures than the previous decade - but more rain. Margaret Thatcher saw much more rain and less sun - and Gordon Brown has seen more sunshine, but cold termperatures

So how different types of decay time?

medium So almost every month that David Cameron was Prime Minister are colder than in the ten years before he came to power - the exceptions are March and April (although this may change as data this month comes). August, for example, was 0.81C cooler than the average for each August in the ten years before becoming Prime Minister.

Summers seem less clear in the coalition also cloudier August and July. Despite the rains, especially in summer, is less well.

And for those who have already made a list of things that could be wrong with the analysis, we are ahead of you: do not take into account climate change is happening anyway, the PM in power for short periods (eg, Gordon Brown and John Major) have less variability in time anyway, compared to Blair and Thatcher, everyone in power for more than a decade. There are probably many other reasons not to do the analysis - but the data we use is in the spreadsheet below. Check it out - and we know what we can do with it

SOURCE: Met Office

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