How not to measure temperature part 72: Italian Style

4 10 2008

People send me things, its always interesting to see what comes in the inbox daily:

Dear Mr. Watts,

I have followed your blog and surface station project with great interest. On a recent trip to Italy, I found myself in a city park in  central Milan and a weather station caught my eye. I have attached a  couple of photos along with a map showing its location. The station is  attached to a lab which is part of a greenhouse in gardens. Upon seeing  the installation I just had to snap some photos to share!

Keep up the great work.

Jeff Kalt
San Francisco

Here’s what Jeff sent me, a series of successively wider views of a weather station in Milan, at the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli (public gardens). Here is more info on the place as well as an interactive Google Map. Milan’s Public Gardens extend for around 16 hectares / 40 acres and it is the largest city park in Milan.  The building is the Palazzo Dugnale, housing the Greenhouse Laboratories, part of the Milan Natural Science Centre.

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Speckwatch

4 10 2008

There’s been a little discussion about the plage area that came around the solar rim in the last two days, and now it appears that it has formed a spot. (h/t to Leif Svalgaard)

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Note that other similar sized black “specks” on the image are stuck pixels in the SOHO imager.

The question now is: how long will the sunspeck last? Longevity has not been a virtue for similarly sized sunspecks this year.

UPDATE: As of 1600 UTC 10-05-2008 the speck is gone on the latest SOHO MDI – Anthony

Jan Janssens has an interesting discussion on it (h/t to John-x)

4 October 08 – There is a new sunspotgroup visible on the southern solar hemisphere (as already reported yesterday by Pete Lawrence on the Spaceweather-website).

Belgian solar observers saw earlier this morning at least one sunspot clearly in this region.

Interestingly, Locarno (07:15 UT ; Q=2) and SIDC/Ukkel (07:45 UT ; Q=2?) did not report anything just a few hours earlier… Kanzelhöhe (09:03UT) did notice a bipolar group. Read the rest of this entry »


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