Correcting and Calculating the Size of Adjustments in the USHCN By Anthony Watts and Zeke Hausfather A recent WUWT post included a figure which showed the difference between raw and…
Category: Weather_stations
How not to measure temperature part 95 – New temperature record of 102° in Wichita, but look where they measure it
Over at Weather Underground, they are all excited about a new monthly high temperature record. Christopher Burt writes: Wichita, Kansas Measures May Monthly High Temperature of 102° On Sunday, May…
Seattle's climate instantly cools 1.5 degrees
This is interesting, and of course it goes hand-in-hand with what I have been saying for years. Scott Sistek, of KOMO News/Weather reports: ============================================================= For several years the thermometer at…
Turning airliners into flying weather stations
From Scripps Institute New Airborne GPS Technology for Weather Conditions Takes Flight First-time demonstration led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography captures key meteorological data from aircraft, along with the potential…
CRU produces something useful for a change
World temperature records available via Google Earth Climate researchers at the University of East Anglia have made the world’s temperature records available via Google Earth.
Important study on temperature adjustments: 'homogenization…can lead to a significant overestimate of rising trends of surface air temperature.'
From the “we told you so” department comes this paper out of China that quantifies many of the very problems with the US and global surface temperature record we have…
El Niño sea monitoring system may fail – half dead already
From the “send money or the instrumentation gets it” department comes news that the TAO array may already be toast due to budget constraints. One wonders if money sucked into…
Who are you going to believe, my B-44 or your lyin eyes?
NCDC needs to incorporate information into their metadata database from four sources that they currently ignore and/or keep from the public. Guest essay by John Slayton Southern California’s San Gabriel…
On personal and professional weather stations
Please allow me a bit of self indulgence here. As some of you may know, the technology of measuring and displaying weather is my specialty. I operate a business in…
Claim: 'climate change' caused more deaths in Stockholm – but it may be due to flawed methodology
This is one of those publications where I look at what was done in the paper and just shake my head in disbelief. For starters, according to the data listed…
Forecast for Dallas: 160°F with a chance of showers
Yes, this is a real current temperature presented by NOAA/NWS for the forecast of Addison, TX near Dallas. I checked the airport ASOS at Dallas Addison Airport (KADS) and sure…
Unwarranted Temperature Adjustments and Al Gore's Unwarranted Call for Intellectual Tyranny
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University For researchers like myself examining the effect of local microclimates on the ecology of local…
Does your weather station get the wind? How station siting compromises temperature measurements via wind issues
Guest essay by Bob Fernley-Jones Well Melbourne (Oz) sure does, (and we are the butt of a few intercity jokes, a polite one being; we can have “four seasons all…
The Elusive Absolute Surface Air Temperature (SAT)
Here’s an interesting Q&A on issues with trying to determine the SAT of the Earth that I have not seen before. There’s a surprise at the end as to who…
When it comes to new high temperature records, 'shoot first, ask questions later'
Readers may recall my investigation over the weekend of an announcement by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) about a new all-time high temperature record set in Greenland that was subsequently…
How not to measure temperature – Part 94 – Maniitsoq, Greenland all time high temperature rescinded?
UPDATE: 7/12/13 1045 PDT DMI concedes the record may not be valid, see here I’ve been working on this one for a week, and I finally confirmed my hunch about…
Nighttime heat waves on the increase in Pacific NW
More examples of the nighttime heat sink effect of UHI. Asphalt, concrete, bricks and other infrastructure holds the energy from daytime solar insolation and releases it at night as LWIR.…
Central Park in USHCNv2.5 (October 2012) magically becomes cooler in July in the Dust Bowl years
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM Remember this story long ago on New York’s Central Park multiple very different data sets to which Steve McIntyre responded here. McIntyre wrote then: …has the…
Questions for NOAA and NPS Death Valley that have gone unanswered related to the 100 year celebration of the 'hottest ever temperature'
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/vef/deathvalley/ I sent this last Tuesday, I have not seen a response from either individual listed here as press contacts at the press release for the 100th anniversary of the…
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology Gets it Wrong
Guest essay by Ed Thurstan Abstract The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) released a new temperature dataset – the “Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature“ (ACORN-SAT) in…
Hot weather and climate change – a mountain from a molehill?
Guest essay by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times On Sunday, Death Valley temperatures reached 129oF, a new June record high for the United States, according to the…
Which mercury reading in Mercury is the right one?
How can two stations less than 1/2 mile apart be so different? How can one set a new record and best it by two degrees while the other doesn’t? I…
It seems NOAA has 'de-modernized' the official Death Valley station to use older equipment to make a record more likely
About those ‘record’ Death Valley temperatures everybody is waiting for… UPDATE: 128°F today at Death Valley COOP station. See Record Event Report below. It seems the media and the alarmists…
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