Sad to hear that Philip has died though I knew he had been incapacitated through dementia for some time and was living in a care home
I first heard of him about 25 years ago in the Sunday People, a dreadful newspaper that my grandparents used to read. His weather column was the only decent thing in it.
I have all his excellent and informative books on the British climate, his knowledge of which was unrivalled. I’ll also add that his rebuttal of the Brogdale reading and his superior alternate CET series, calculated in the way Gordon Manley intended, taught me not to trust anything the Met Office produced.
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