there are three w/in an hour and a half of me all marked such. but if someone’s already tried, i don’t want to waste the trip.

REPLY: Residence means the station is located at somebody’s home. A private volunteer observer. They aren’t “questionable” the question mark icon simply means we don’t know anything about it. Happy to help you locate them if you can tell me which one. – Anthony

I’ve got great pix of Fossil, but it’s not on the list!!!

- Buy a man a fish or teach a man to fish :)

Buy a man a fish and he’ll stink up the place. Give a man a fishing pole and he’ll poke in the eye with it. ;)

What can I do to help with that station?

Best,

Fred

AEGeneral (21:04:24) :

Struck a deal with Mrs General tonight after intense negotiations. ;)

Lol, you too, eh?

I saw several that had not responded to the registration verification emails that get sent after you sign up. Probably in your spam filter.

So I manually activated everyone who signed up in the last 24 hours…you should be able to login to the

http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php

and look around. Please follow the instructions above (in the story) on how to survey and upload your pictures to the blank station placeholder.

Struck a deal with Mrs General tonight after intense negotiations. ;)

End of February at the latest on Hernando & Covington. I’ll exhaust every contact I have down in the Corinth area. Hope I can get another volunteer.

I also would like to offer up my congratulations and thanks for this effort. I am fairly new to the ranks of the “skeptics”, but I’m scared to death by the looming disaster that could be foisted upon the world by the “concensus” scientists and their alarmist backers in government. Let’s hope that minds can be changed before we undertake the largest and most damaging tax in the history of mankind.

Could someone point me to a study that shows US temp trends broken out by station rating (or is this the core reason that you have undertaken this effort)? I have read much about the UHI effect and how some climatologists have not disclosed how they “adjust” their data for same. I would be very curious to see how the UHI impacts the lower quality stations compared to the higher quality stations using unadjusted numbers.

REPLY: Thanks, the study you ask for has yet to be written. -Anthony

For those interested in looking at Canadian stations I might be of some help. I have a Ph.D. in Cloud Physics and worked 25 years at Environment Canada’s AES/MSC in Toronto, and I still know a lot of people involved in atmospheric, weather and climate research there. I could possibly help, for example, locate station information and other data.

Unfortunately, I don’t have time available to lead the effort to evaluate Canadian surface stations, though I could look at individual stations in and around Kamloops, BC. I already run a charity called “FogQuest: sustainable water solutions” on a full-time volunteer basis. It provides water to villages in arid regions using very large fog collectors. I mention this because a changing climate affects where we can produce water. One positive thing to come out of more low-cloud over the oceans, if it occurs, is that there will be more of it to be pushed by the wind over coastal hills and mountains, which will produce fog in these locations, and thus more water for trees and plants adapted to collecting the fog droplets, and more water for FogQuest to provide to people. Also, colder sea (and land) temperatures lead to lower cloud base heights, which in turn will lead to more frequent fog on mountains and longer duration fog events. This will deposit more fog water in places like coastal California, the west coast of South America, and many other coastal and inland locations.

There is an informal association of retired professionals from the Meteorological Service of Canada, Jim, and you may find a suitable person in that group to help. I’ll send you a contact person’s name and address.

Cheers!

- Buy a man a fish or teach a man to fish :)

REPLY: Just visit the gallery and look at the stations surveyed. That’s update date daily.

http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php and select the USHCN > state of interest – Anthony