I’m back from my road trip today. It was a day of surprises, I visited 5 weather stations today, and each had a story to tell.
The one that was the most surprising is represented by the photo below, which I snapped with my Infrared camera. Hint: it’s not asphalt. The reading of 66°C for some elements in the scene is accurate. And it’s at an operating USHCN station, right under it in fact.
I’ll have more on this tomorrow, and a corresponding visible light photo that tells the story, right now I’m dead tired from driving 300+ miles today.
UPDATE: Lot’s of guesses, no correct answers. Click below to see what it is. You’ll be surprised. I sure was.
Fresh wood chips over weedmat at an official NOAA/NWS station, which is also a USHCN station. Surprisingly, note that the concrete is actually cooler in the IR photo. The work was ongoing, which is why the gate was open and the sign is not affixed yet.
More on this station soon in a new post.
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I have a decent mental table for doing Celcius to Fahrenheit conversions, especially for typical meteorological temps. 66C isn’t in it, nor is 65C.
Lessee, 25C is 77F, 40C more is 72F more, so 65C is 149F.
Roof? Hot water solar panel? A trash burning drum that’s in use? A black cat visiting Death Valley?
I just wanted to say thanks for all the effort you put in.
It seems to be a rooftop.
Nahhh, it’s probably lava flow, judging by the color! 🙂
OK, OK, that’s a silly comment, but I just couldn’t resist. 😀
Thunderbird 1 exhaust manifold?
Solar hot water collectors would work well in those temperatures, thats insane.
Wilderness locations… So is it on a platform of wood which has been painted dark brown?
It has to be on the roof of some global warming activists conference, discussing their next scam.
-tin/iron roof
-solar panel
-massive heat exchange unit from a very large roof top aircon tower
-foundry or furnace
Lava rock used for landscaping.
Dry grass?
Probably heat from an exhaust vent of some sort.
Lava Beds Monument is in the area. If I was setting up a climate station and wanted to have a place with government employees handy, what better a spot than that? Of course the climate readings might not be of high quality, but that hasn’t stopped them before.
Looks like cinders. They haven’t put them out yet?
Anthony as allways, a billion thanks for this super work.
Of-topic-but-everyone-should-see:
http://www.climate4you.com/images/EQUATOR%202008%2008%20vs%201998-2006.gif
This is a global temperature anomaly where you compare aug 2008 with 1998-2006 level. This is a VERY good indication of global cooling.
It comes from OLE HUMLUMS very nice site http://www.climate4you.com
Use it!
Now back to this insane 66 degree celcius platform!!
K.R. Frank Lansner
Completely unrelated, but I only just read this article on how all the GCMs assume a constant relative humidity:
http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/The_Saturated_Greenhouse_Effect.htm
This model assumption is confirmed on Real Climate, of all places:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=142
Unfortunately NOAA’s own data shows that this is wrong, for example in the tropics at the crucial 700mb height:
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/Timeseries/timeseries.pl?ntype=1&var=Relative+Humidity+(up+to+300mb+only)&level=700&lat1=0&lat2=0&lon1=-180&lon2=180&iseas=1&mon1=0&mon2=11&iarea=0&typeout=2&Submit=Create+Timeseries
My own back-of-the-envelope calculations show that a 1C rise in temperature (from 25C to 26C) would cause an approx. 4% increase in specific humidity, assuming a fixed relative humidity, and that this would cause a further (approx.) 0.80C rise due to the greenhouse gas effect of water (33C*0.60*0.04=0.80C). Obviously a staggeringly massive (almost run-away) greenhouse effect, as seen in the GCMs, except of course it doesn’t seem to happen in reality!
Dr. Hansen’s forehead as he read your column.
Tamino’s blood pressure?
Too easy. Obviously a coffepot on a hotplate sitting on one of those stackable chairs.
Clay or salt pan.
Looks like one of the lava scenes from the 3rd Star Wars movies.
I agree i think its Lava
http://king1876.wordpress.com/
Not lava, but Vulcan’s workshop nonetheless. More likely a hot springs nearby.
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My guess is an asphalt and gravelflat roof.
My turn.
You climbed underneath and are looking up at the underside of a roof.
Electrical system transformer station on a concrete pad?