Category Archives: Weather_stations

An interesting graph showing solar cycle, El Niño, and surface temperature correlation in Australia

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

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Posted in Climate data, ENSO, Solar, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , , | 106 Comments

Some stuff I’ve been up to…Cellular Weather Station

Posted on June 23, 2012 by

As many people know, weather stations are my specialty. I’ve been busy with inventing a number of things as of late, trying to stay competitive. So thought I’d drop this out there in case anyone has a use for either … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , | 60 Comments

Comparing GHCN V1 and V3

Posted on June 22, 2012 by

Much Ado About Very Little Guest post by Zeke Hausfather and Steve Mosher E.M. Smith has claimed (see full post here: Summary Report on v1 vs v3 GHCN ) to find numerous differences between GHCN version 1 and version 3, … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , , | 275 Comments

Chiefio Smith examines GHCN and finds it “not fit for purpose”

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

E.M. Smith over at the blog Musings from the Chiefio earlier this month posted an analysis comparing versions 1 and 3 of the GHCN (Global Historical Climate Network) data set.  WUWT readers may remember a discussion about GHCN version 3 … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate sensitivity, Climate_change, GHCN, Global warming, statistics | 120 Comments

Auditing the adjusting of ACORN temperature down under

Posted on June 17, 2012 by

Joanne Nova and Ken Stewart have uncovered some startling findings about the way Australia’s BOM “High Quality” network data is adjusted. Think USHCN here in America. This is well worth a read. – Anthony A team of independent auditors, bloggers … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 53 Comments

Phil Jones gives a talk at KNMI in De Bilt – meanwhile temperature and paleo researchers are still blowing off data requests

Posted on June 1, 2012 by

From  Marcel Crok at De staat van het klimaat: Phil Jones: ‘Contact NMS’s for raw data’ Over at Climate Audit there is renewed interest in data availability with McIntyre asking whether journals that don’t guarantee data archiving (The Holocene in … Continue reading →

Posted in Weather_stations, Climate data, Paleoclimatology, GHCN | Tagged , , , , , , , | 114 Comments

Facepalm! Gore’s “dirty energy = dirty weather” claims about the US are laughable in the context of other countries

Posted on May 26, 2012 by

Al Gore, is his usual incompetent persona, is bloviating weapons grade nonsense again. A few prior examples: On TV, Earth’s core is millions of degrees, in AIT, snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro will gone due to global warming, except the snows … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Coal, Energy, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 63 Comments

An analysis of the Central Netherlands Temperature record

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

Many readers are familiar with the Central England Temperature Record (CET), now Frank Lansner investigates the Central Netherlands Temperature Record (CNT). Long, but enlightening. – Anthony Guest post by Frank Lansner Instead the KNMI has decided only to make available … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Weather_stations | Tagged , , | 135 Comments

Heating up in Huntsville – the discovery of FHI?

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

WUWT reader BarryW found this on the Huntsville Office of the State Climatologist, operated by our friend, Dr. John Christy and left it in Tips and Notes. First Christy’s article, then the report on the rabbit hole my investigation sent … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Land use land cover change, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 31 Comments

RDU’s paint by numbers temperature and climate monitoring

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

After reviewing over 1000 USHCN stations in the United States as part of my surfacestations.org project, I have often thought that I can’t find anymore surprises in the train wreck that is our surface observing network. Apparently I’m wrong. Can … Continue reading →

Posted in Weather_stations, Climate data, Land use land cover change, GHCN | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 58 Comments

Warming in the USHCN is mainly an artifact of adjustments

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

Dr. Roy Spencer proves what we have been saying for years, the USHCN (U.S. Historical Climatology Network) is a mess compounded by a bigger mess of adjustments. ============================================================== USHCN Surface Temperatures, 1973-2012: Dramatic Warming Adjustments, Noisy Trends Guest post by … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , | 152 Comments

Weather cows

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

This was the view from near my home today. Cows on Bidwell Ranch acting like a weather-vane…all pointed north, due to a strong south wind with stinging rain…and who needs stinging wind in your face?

Posted in Fun_stuff, Weather_stations | Tagged , | 121 Comments

How airports like BWI help set outlier high temperature records

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

Mark Johnson, Chief Meteorologist of WEWS in Cleveland writes: A friend of mine, Justin Berk, a local TV Met in Baltimore, MD had this story to tell today: “There’s something fishy going on at BWI (Baltimore International Airport),” he says. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , | 82 Comments

An update on my Climate Reference Network visualization project

Posted on April 7, 2012 by

Readers may recall that when Peter Gleick first sent out the stolen Heartland board documents and the fake document to give the story “legs”, there was a mention in there of a project that I asked Heartland to help me … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Fakegate, GHCN, Michael E. Mann, NASA GISS, NOAA, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 93 Comments

Australian temperature records shoddy, inaccurate, unreliable

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

Via Jo Nova, an Australian Surface Stations Project has just reported its results. The BOM say their temperature records are high quality. An independent audit team has just produced a report showing that as many as 85 -95% of all … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Weather_stations | 91 Comments

Heh.

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

From Tom Nelson Email 600, Sept 2007: Watts expose makes NOAA want to change entire USA method Email 600

Posted in Weather_stations, Climate data, Surfacestations paper | Tagged , , , , , , , | 152 Comments

Bitter cold records broken in Alaska – all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy’s Law intervenes

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in … Continue reading →

Posted in records, Weather, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , | 380 Comments

Abrupt changes in GHCN station-level temperature records contradict the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) claims.

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Guest post by Jens Raunsø Jensen Preamble Inspired by a statement by Dr. Kevin Trenberth in the e-mails referred to as Climategate 2.0 (#3946 discussed here), it is hoped that climate scientists will have “an open enough mind to even … Continue reading →

Posted in Weather_stations, Climate data, GHCN | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 205 Comments

The Impact of Urbanization on Land Temperature Trends

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

by Zeke Hausfather , Steven Mosher, Matthew Menne , Claude Williams , and Nick Stokes [Note: this is an AGU poster displayed at the annual meeting, available here as a PDF. I’ve converted it to plain text and images for … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, UHI, Weather_stations | 134 Comments

Even as far back as 1892, station siting was a concern

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

Former California State Climatologist Jim Goodridge sent this along yesterday. This interesting letter from 1892 is a letter from Sergeant James A. Barwick to cooperative weather observers in California. He was concerned about the station siting and exposure conditions and … Continue reading →

Posted in Weather_stations, Climate data | Tagged , , | 46 Comments