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My personal opinion: NOAA is probably having trouble finding anyone to do what this man has done for many years: spend time and effort, without pay, to perform a public service. If the government is so bold as to arm twist the old-timers into trying to continue what has become an unreasonable charity, they ought at least give some assistence to maintaining the site. The gentleman should be commended, not ridiculed.

So many of the buoy sensors are inop. Though due to difficulty in getting manpower out to remote locales to repair/ troubleshoot them – were left with the ‘Good enough for Government work’ mantra.

Lastly, when in Antarctica I volunteered with another person to be flown out to remote weather sites to dig out some of these sensors.

Suffice to say, some of these sensors were ‘insulated’ with snowpack/ ice crystals/ grapple from years of wind and the like. Temperature, wind and other associated data WAS effected.

I’m with you on the need for actual testing. Curiously, despite its present-day junkyard siting, the Filmore data (available only through 2004) shows no evidence of non-climatic effects in a battery of tests in both the time and frequency domains. It’s really one of the “cleanest” records in Utah! Micro-siting issues can make for shocking photos, but the proof has to be in the pudding.

Tires are excellent heat sinks. Placing an MRE (Meal, Ready to Eat — “three lies for the price of one”) on a truck tire for ten minutes will get it so hot, you’ll singe your taste buds. Which, if you’re eating an MRE, isn’t necessarily a bad thing…

Setup one per specification for a CRN1 rating.

Setup another one right next to a sidewalk along an asphalt parking lot, with an air conditioner about 9 feet away blowing its warm exhaust at it then pull a car up next to it with a nice and warm engine. Thrown in a BBQ too. Pretty much replicate the conditions of the sensor at that fire station.

That’ll get some simultaneous realtime data from two sensors as close as practical with the perfectly sited one being the control.

Yes, a burning tire is difficult to extinguish, but flammability does not make it a good heat sink. Maybe the cord belts within make it hard to extinguish, like those trick candles on a birthday cake that reignite themselves as soon a you blow them out. A tire’s surface, resembling a black body unless it sports a wide whitewall, will absorb heat rediation, but because the tire material is somewhat of an insulator, I doubt the surface heat will penetrate easily, nor be released easily after the heat has had time to penetrate.

“So the question in my mind is: how does the albedo of old tires compare to asphalt?”

I think in this case, tire albedo is not as relevant as thermal diffusivity and mass. Tires are good insulators, so they’re not very effective heat sinks, especially given that they are hollow. The trees, completely surrounding the site, are suspect. I wonder how much compost is under all that trash, perking away and giving off heat. And where is the BBQ?

jorgekafkazar
Tires are very good heat sinks, just ask anyone who has ever fought a tire fire or a vehicle fire. You can pour large amounts of water onto a burning tire and it will re-ignite as soon as you remove your hose stream. Once a tire is warm or hot it will hold that heat for a long time.