
WUWT readers will probably remember yesterdays’ story about the malfunctioning temperature sensor at the ASOS station at Honolulu airport next to an asphalt access road. Well guess what? Even though NOAA admits the sensor is in error by as much as 2 degrees, they are going to keep the data and the string of new high temperature records. “BUT” they fixed the recent record rainfall data from the same station. See below. How’s that for science? Fix one broken record due to faulty equipment but leave others?
FROM KITV-TV (hat tip to Becka)
HONOLULU — Honolulu’s run of record heat came to an end Wednesday, but it may not have been any cooler.The weather has been warm most of the month, with highs in the 90s the past nine days.However, between 11 a.m. and noon, the city’s temperature dropped from Wednesday’s high of 89 degrees to 86 degrees, the same hour a new thermometer was installed at Honolulu International Airport.
The old one had been showing a warm bias of a degree or two, officials said. The National Weather Service said that is not significant enough to throw out the data and recent records.
Here is the string of temperature records that have been set from this faulty ASOS station:
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HONOLULU HI
436 PM HST TUE JUN 16 2009
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 91 DEGREES WAS SET AT HONOLULU HI TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 89 SET IN 2005. $$ HOAG
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HONOLULU HI
431 PM HST MON JUN 15 2009
A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 92 DEGREES AT HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TODAY BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 90 SET IN 1982. $$
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HONOLULU HI
627 PM HST SUN JUN 14 2009
A TEMPERATURE OF 92 DEGREES AT HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TODAY BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 90 SET IN 2005. $$
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HONOLULU HI
456 PM HST SAT JUN 13 2009
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 92 DEGREES WAS SET AT HONOLULU HI TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 90 SET IN 2005. $$
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HONOLULU
525 PM HST FRI JUN 12 2009
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 92 DEGREES WAS SET AT HONOLULU TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 89 SET IN 1993. $$
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE TIED AT HONOLULU HI
426 PM HST THU JUN 11 2009
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 92 DEGREES WAS TIED AT HONOLULU HI TODAY. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 92 SET IN 1996. $$
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HONOLULU HI
427 PM HST WED JUN 10 2009
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 92 DEGREES WAS SET AT HONOLULU HI TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 91 SET IN 1982. $$
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HONOLULU HI
430 PM HST TUE JUN 9 2009
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 91 DEGREES AT HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TODAY BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 90 SET IN 2003. $$
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HONOLULU HI
0426 PM HST MON JUN 08 2009
A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 92 DEGREES HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TODAY BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 90 SET IN 1997. $$
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HONOLULU HI
428 PM HST FRI JUN 05 2009
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 91 DEGREES WAS SET AT HONOLULU HI TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 90 SET IN 1997. $$ WATKINS
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HONOLULU
445 PM HST TUE JUN 2 2009
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 91 DEGREES WAS SET AT HONOLULU TODAY. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 91 SET IN 1996. $$
CORRECTION TO RAINFALL RECORD AT HONOLULU AIRPORT
0915 PM HST THU MAY 28 2009
DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS…THE HONOLULU AIRPORT OBSERVATION STATED A RECORD RAINFALL OF 0.14 INCHES FOR THURSDAY MAY 28…BUT THIS IS INCORRECT. ONLY 0.02 INCHES FELL AT THE AIRPORT. NO RECORD WAS BROKEN. $$ MORRISON
RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL SET AT HONOLULU HI
445 PM HST THU MAY 28 2009
HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT RECORDED RAINFALL OF 0.14 INCHES TODAY BREAKING THE OLD RECORD OF 0.11 SET IN 1963. $$
Let me say it first: THIS IS JUST WRONG.
If they know the error, how can they possibly justify keeping the new maximum records? You can’t get away with this sort of thing in the world of professional sports records, Olympic records, or even the cheesy Guinness Book of Records. Heck they even fix mistakes made on the TV quiz show Jeopardy and dock the contestant’s winnings!
Surely NOAA has more scruples than a TV game show?
If the record can’t be verified because the equipment is faulty, how does that make it a valid record? They can’t, it’s FUBAR!
Here is the contact email links (right off their web page, I’m not outing anymore) for the Meteorologist in Charge and staff at NWS Honolulu. I say we give them an earful.
- James Weyman
- Meteorologist in Charge
- Richard Knabb
- Director of Operations
- Robert Ballard
- Science & Operations Officer
- Ray Tanabe
- Warning Coordination Meteorologist
- Kevin Kodama
- Hydrologist
- Bill Boone
- Electronic System Analyst
- Pam Fujiwara
- Administrative Assistant
Or if you’d like to write:
National Weather Service Forecast Office
2525 Correa Road, Suite 250
Honolulu, HI 96822-2219
Tel: (808) 973-5286
UPDATE:
WUWT reader Leon Brozyna points out the temperature dropped 3 degrees at the time of the sensor change, not 2 as indicated in the original TV story admission by NWS PHNL.
I’ve recovered the hourly data from the ASOS station and that is verified. Note there do not seem to be any other meteorological conditions that occurred at that time (such as increased cloud cover or rain) that could add a cooling trend. With solar insolation still increasing, and the high of the day likely yet to occur ( there was a second peak later) it seems that the sensor was off at least 3 degrees. Plus the temperature trend at that time of the day is usually upwards, so it may be even more than 3 degrees. Possibly 4.- Anthony
Source: http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/PHNL.html
| D
a t e |
Time
(hst) |
Wind
(mph) |
Vis.
(mi.) |
Weather | Sky Cond. | Temperature (ºF) | Pressure | Precipitation (in.) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air | Dwpt | 6 hour | altimeter
(in.) |
sea level
(mb) |
1 hr | 3 hr | 6 hr | |||||||
| Max. | Min. | |||||||||||||
| 17 | 17:53 | E 16 | 10.00 | Mostly Cloudy | FEW033 BKN075 | 83 | 67 | 30.00 | 1015.7 | |||||
| 17 | 16:53 | NE 20 G 24 | 10.00 | Mostly Cloudy | SCT028 BKN049 | 85 | 67 | 29.98 | 1015.3 | |||||
| 17 | 15:53 | NE 14 G 24 | 10.00 | Mostly Cloudy | SCT028 BKN070 | 86 | 66 | 29.98 | 1015.3 | |||||
| 17 | 14:53 | NE 18 G 25 | 10.00 | Mostly Cloudy | SCT044 BKN075 | 87 | 65 | 29.99 | 1015.6 | |||||
| 17 | 13:53 | NE 14 G 24 | 10.00 | Mostly Cloudy | SCT042 BKN075 | 88 | 65 | 89 | 84 | 30.00 | 1016.0 | |||
| 17 | 12:53 | NE 13 G 22 | 10.00 | Partly Cloudy | FEW043 SCT075 | 87 | 65 | 30.02 | 1016.4 | |||||
| 17 | 11:53 | NE 20 G 25 | 10.00 | Partly Cloudy | SCT045 | 86 | 65 | 30.03 | 1016.9 | |||||
| 17 | 10:53 | E 15 G 23 | 10.00 | Partly Cloudy | SCT042 | 89 | 66 | 30.04 | 1017.3 | |||||
| 17 | 09:53 | E 15 G 24 | 10.00 | A Few Clouds | FEW042 | 86 | 65 | 30.05 | 1017.5 | |||||
| 17 | 08:53 | NE 16 G 24 | 10.00 | A Few Clouds | FEW040 | 86 | 67 | 30.05 | 1017.5 | |||||
| 17 | 07:53 | E 15 G 22 | 10.00 | A Few Clouds | FEW033 | 84 | 66 | 84 | 79 | 30.05 | 1017.5 | |||
| 17 | 06:53 | E 7 | 10.00 | A Few Clouds | FEW033 | 82 | 67 | 30.04 | 1017.2 | |||||
| 17 | 05:53 | E 7 | 10.00 | Partly Cloudy | FEW028 SCT060 | 80 | 68 | 30.03 | 1016.8 | |||||
| 17 | 04:53 | NE 5 | 10.00 | Partly Cloudy | FEW033 SCT065 | 80 | 67 | 30.01 | 1016.3 | |||||
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“This thermometer is dead.”
“No it’s pining for the fjords.”
Surely NOAA has more scruples than a TV game show?”
NOAA is one big show.
Email Hawaii’s Dept of Tourism and notify them that you’ll be vacationing in Tahiti this year because of the record temperatures in Hawaii.
Well of course they aren’t going to correct the record. They need the figures to support rubbish like this:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090618/tuk-temperatures-could-rise-by-2c-6323e80.html
and this:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090618/tuk-tougher-climate-change-action-urged-6323e80.html
And just so you know, I’m currently enjoying the Met Offices Barbecue Summer deluge…
Perhaps the Honolulu station is too important as a generator of nice neat virtual grid nodes out in the wide blue Pacific. Do these people measure the CO2 up that volcano as well?
“Let me say it first: THIS IS JUST WRONG.” Thank you, Anthony, for saying it first and so clearly. A faulty sensor off at least 3 degrees and they are going to keep the records and verify the raw data gathered as scientific???
I join Ron de Haan in “loving the writing style of this post” (as well as all the others, Anthony) and I will join other WUWTers in writing in protest re shameless subversion of science.
In my usual “clean out those dirty stables style”, I think: Whoever approved this should lose their job(s). Of course, James Weyman, Meterologist in Charge, couldn’t possibly be responsible. I wonder, does he feel guilt (jeez)? How about the rest of the meterology staff — Richard Knabb, Robert Ballard, Ray Tanabe, Kevin Kodama, Bill Boone, Pam Fujiwara? (Sorry, Pam, Admin Assistant, but you are on this list — maybe you can give your bosses an earful?) Do they know that we live in a representative democracy, not an authoritarian state? And What’s Up With NOAA? Are “they” playing God?
[snip -policy – political and off topic]
dearieme (02:51:06) :
“This thermometer is dead.”
“No it’s pining for the fjords.”
“It’s on it’s back, It’s joined the choir invisible”
“Naaah, it’s just got a touch of heatstroke, that’s all”
The Hawaian with immaculate scruples
Checked the temp with dilating pupils
“Cor blimey!” he cried
“The thermometer’s fried”
“We’ll just tell ’em the anomaly quadruples”
Clean enough for you? 🙂
Perhaps the new thermometer was one of those negative thermometers.
Hey does that mean that we can now say there has been a pronounced cooling over the past week in Honolulu?
I wonder if we will see stories about how the temp next winter is a few degrees lower than last year…..
Really wierd how all the erroros, fubars and otherwise screwed up data always seems to skew one way. Just weird how random the errors are. I am sure it’s just an error.
And you wonder why people know a hoax when they see one.
As a Marine, I think FUBAR means FUBAR and it was the perfect choice of terms.
Every error in the warm direction not so important. Its warmer and confirms the models. No need to look as suspicious data:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/11/10/giss-releases-october-2008-data/
But an error in the CO2 record that shows a drop. Fixed within 12 hours:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/08/04/one-day-later-mauna-loa-co2-graph-changes-data-doesnt/
A new record cold temperature for Maine needs a month of forensic study to confirm it and to make sure the record is left in doubt until it is no longer news:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/02/10/50%C2%B0f-new-all-time-record-low-confirmed-in-maine/
Don’t bother calling me for jury duty. I do not believe a singe word any government employee says.
examine this quote from the BBC article:
“The previous report – UKCIP2002 – is now seven years old, and included projections from just one computer model. By contrast, UKCP09 has collated data from 400 variations of the model developed by the Hadley Centre, part of the Met Office. Each variant has been checked to see how well it predicted the climate of past decades; and the numbers have been compared with projections of other computer models.”
This author doesn’t even realize they still are using JUST ONE MODEL! 400 slightly altered parameters are NOT 400 models! If the underlying model has a basic conceptual flaw, then every variation of that model is affected by the same flaw. (that should be common sense, but not to the Met Office or the BBC, obviously)
So, they have repeated all original errors 400 times, and they are calling the incessant repetition of the errors their “confidence factor”.
And then they throw in the bit about backtesting. How are those backtested models working out for you on the financial markets, guys?
Texas Aggie (04:46:15) :
> As a Marine, I think FUBAR means FUBAR and it was the perfect choice of terms.
Let’s hope it doesn’t become standard operating procedure at other sites in which case we’ll have to use SNAFU.
OT but I’m sure of interest, the UK Met Office and BBC are in hysterical overdrive today. The Met Office has introduced a new interactive local climate predictor for regions across the UK.
The BBC article covering this is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/04/climate_change/html/greenhouse.stm
It has now been amplified on TV News this lunchtime, with that balanced reporter Shukman covering it. The world will be relieved to know that no less than Gordon Brown has put on a hard hat and stood on the Thames Barrier to highlight how serious the threat of London being inundated is.
The Beeb also has a wonderful grahic explaining how global warming works. See if you can spot what’s missing . You can find it here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8107014.stm
Finally there is the interactive Britain gimmick. I’ve only had a quick peep at my region – NW England – but I was appalled at the graphs comparing e.g. winter rainfall now and 41 years hence. Now it’s 322mm and in 2050 it will be possibly 365mm (+ 40 or – 30), approx 10% difference but shown as a bar of twice the height.
But on a brighter note, the news item on BBC did end by saying it is only a possibility
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/guide/ukcp/
On a less bright note they also claimed that severe floods in UK 2 years ago (you remember, the year the met office pedicted a long hot summer) were clear evidence of global warming.
Resigned sigh!
PaulHClark (01:53:08) :
That’s close enough to the U.S. military acronym [“F’d Up Beyond All Repair”]. In this instance, SNAFU would work just as well for the NOAA [Situation Normal; All F’d Up].
[For the moderators, “All F’d Up = All ‘Fouled’ Up. ;^) ]
Here’s an idea.
I haven’t followed the debate closely, but people have suggested flagging steroid-tainted baseball records with a footnote or S for Steroids.
Perhaps the NWS can do the same, but in this case S can stand for Sensor, or stupid, or snafu, or….
Further to OT comment above, you cna find even more UK climate projections here:
http://ukcp09.defra.gov.uk/
You need to register and then log-in but can then play with the data to your heart’s content. It’s geographical resolution is I think 15x15km square.
You will be glad to know it is all based on “Sound Science” –
“The science underlying UKCP09 has been the subject of peer review within the scientific literature (see references within the sciences reports). In addition, to checking and verifying the methodology and outputs throughout their development, a peer review panel examined the methodologies used to produce the climate projections and the marine and coastal projections, as well as those to develop the weather generator tool, and found that they are credible using state-of-the-art science and methodologies. The team of reviewers also noted that the work carried out was of high standard and represented a large step beyond UKCIP02.
The scientific reports and user guidance have benefited from recommendations to improve the description and communications of the methodologies and assumptions, including the implications for use. “
While we sit here discussing the absurdity of this situation, the AGW cult is spreading. It isn’t funny anymore. I’m with Vaclav Klaus: This cult may be the greatest threat to freedom and peace since the Nazis. And now its members are running this country. We all need to do our part to deprogram as many people as we can.
Off topic, but I wonder if anyone is interested in the June issue of this report by a government climate change cabal
http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts
I have only scanned this but it seeems to be more of the same old propaganda except they report that the discrepancy between teperature data and the computer models in the troposphere vs surface temperatures have been resolved. The temperature data is corrected via the saussage machine!
Ric Werme:
I think they used an asterisk [*] in the record book, indicating that the record-setting was done while using steroids.
That would be OK with me. Use an asterisk next to the dodgy climate record claims. Then we know which numbers are legit… and which aren’t.
Ric, to clarify:
RealClimate = SNAFU
NOAA data = FUBAR
NASA sun theories = FUBAR
If we could correct the record for poorly placed sites and faulty equipment, what happens to all the warming? And what is the margin of error for the temperature anomaly?
Some medical acronyms that may apply to the NOAA [I especially like FOS] :
SFRDKWHTSF – Some Farking Retard –
Don’t Know Why He Talks So Funny.
GOMER – Get Out of My Emergency Room
FTF – Failure To Fly (jumper)
CC – Crispy Critter
ETOH – Either Tipsy Or High
DSTO (veterinary) – Dog Smarter Than Owner
TF BUNDY (veterinary) – Totally Farked But
Unfortunately Not Dead Yet
FOS – Constipated [Full Of Sh__]
TwoCC – Two Carbon Chained [Drunk]
T2T Ratio – Tattoo To Tooth Ratio
DBI – Dirt Bag Index ( T x T = Number of Unbathed Days)
Summer Teeth – “some are here and some are not”
FLK – Funny Looking Kid
ICBINS – I Can’t Believe It’s Not Smegma
HOP – Hang Over Poo
CRAFT – Can’t Remember A Farking Thing
TEETH – Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy
FITH – Farked In The Head
NQRITH – Not Quite Right In The Head
GOK – God Only Knows
LGFTC – Looks Good From The Corridor
LGFD – Looks Good From Doorway
KBSB – Kicked Bed, Still Breathing
DILLIGAF – Do I Look Like I Give A Fark?
90/10 Rule – 90% of assaults are deserved.
10 minutes after arrival, you want to
smack them yourself.
BMT – Bowel Movement Taco (don’t ask)
TNWTLSITM – There is No Way That Little Shiat Is
Touching Me
SFRDKWHTSF – So Farking Retarded, Doesn’t Know Which
Hole To Shiat FromTTFO – “To Take Fluid Orally” (Told To Fark Off)
BOHICA – Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
UPOS – Useless Piece Of Shiat
Plumbum oscillans – (lat.) “Swinging the Lead” (malingering)
SHS – Sullen/Hostile/Stupid (Inner City)
PBKAC (administrative) – Problem Between Keyboard
And Chair [universally applicable]
CC TOTDN – Cancel Christmas, This One is Taking a Dirt Nap
GSWP – Gun Shot Wound/Penis
FDGB – Fall Down Go Boom
URTI – “Upper Respiratory Tract Infection” (Also: You Are Too Idle)
SRI – Something Rong Inside
SVRI – Something Very Rong Inside
GORK – God Only Really Knows
WC – Walking Corpse
BUSOA – Blood Unpredictably Spurting Out Arse (Brit.)
DOT – Dead On Toilet
DIB – Dead In Bed (literally)
CRUMP – Patient who is permanently crumpled
TMB – Too Many Birthdays (old age)
LUBL – Liquored Up but Legal
LURTS – Liquored Up, Return To Sender (police)
DFKDFC – Don’t Farking Know, Don’t Farking Care
TSTOM – Too Stupid To Operate Machines
FIG – Found In Gutter
ACIDEC “the whole shootin’ match” – Abdominal drains, Colostomy, Ileostomy, Duodenostomy, Esophagostomy, Chest tubes
Rule of 5 – Any five of the above list; usually fatal
PITA – Pain In The Ass
NTD – Needs To Die
TSTL – Too Stupid To Live
TWSAM – Trash Will Survive And Multiply
BWCOD – Baby Won’t Come Out, Dammit (said prior to
C-Section)
Oligoneuronic – (Lat.) “Few brain cells”
Azooneuronic – (Lat.) “No brain cells”
LART – Loser Attitude Readjustment Tool (any medical
instrument used to discipline and/or punish an obnoxious patient.)
BGFH – Bastard Goner From Hell (trying violently and
messily to die while using maximum emergency
room resources and creating great disruption)
DNTMA – Do not Transfer Me Again (patient shuffled about
until chief surgeon intervenes to stop it)
Neeper – onomatopoeic – Chronic whiner making sound
described as “neep neep nop…”
Starfish – No brain
STC – Spoke To Child (child more coherent than parent)
Zorched – Human, machine or electronic part damaged
beyond repair
Urban Legend – Bigfoot victim
Spewmaster – Punter with large volume of vomit (Brit.)
DRTFM – Didn’t Read The Farking Manual (parents
who stupidly injure their child) (also Lat.:
enchiriordum futuentum lege, “Read the tech
manual”)
TGMRAAFU – This Guy’s Medical Records Are All
Farked Up
AIDY – Am I Dead Yet? (patient who doesn’t believe they
are still alive
HIBGIA – Had It Before, Got It Again
CCFCCP – Coo Coo For Cocoa Puffs
Glow Worms – HAZMAT personnel
Pharmaceutically gifted – drugged out
Trans-occipital implant – gunshot to head
Urban outdoorsmen – homeless
PVC Challenge – endotracheal intubation
NLPR – No Longer Playing Records (deceased)
CTD – Circling the drain – Terminal
GFPO – Good For Parts Only (terminal)
UBI – Unexplained Beer Injury
PAFO – Pissed And Fell Over
AMTFO – Asked me To Fark Off
Code Brown – fecal incontinence emergency
O-Sign – unconscious with mouth open
Q-Sign – unconscious with mouth open, tongue
hanging out
LOBNH – Lights On But Nobody Home
Pumpkin Positive – Light shown through mouth will
illuminate head, brainless
PIMBA – (Port.) “swollen footed run-over drunk”
Rice Krispies – subcutaneous air
PID – Pink In Dere (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease)
KSS – Kidney Stone Shuffle
Band-Aid Bunnies – female EMS
IWTSFI – I Wish They’d Stop Faking It
HHPTBY – Has He Paid The Bill Yet?
FA11 – Film At 11 (important pending X-Ray)
SCFC – Search Crack(s) For Crack