A mystery for you.
This weekend (weather permitting) Willis and I will be visiting the location of this weather station in the USA. Can you guess where it is? I can assure you it is not the schoolhouse at Bodega nor is it Alfred Hitchcock’s summer house.
Note the Stevenson screen housing the thermometer to the left of the path. Click for a much larger image.
The interest for this station is that this particular station might have a very pristine record unblemished by UHI and other man-made encroachments. What we don’t know yet is if it is continuous record since the station was installed.
I’ll take a wild stab at it — Oregon North Coast. It looks familiar.
Los Farallones, 21 miles west of San Francisco.
I be happy that you two be havin’ an adventure together. (an’ be hopin’ you find the post’s grammatical error.)
[we be fixing it -mod]
I’m not American, so it could be anywhere coastal, or an offshore island, judging by the low grasses and the fact the only tree is in the shelter of the house. I can’t see an anemometer mast (unless that’s it up against the house, in which case the readings would be awful). The screen is too close to the house, too. If it’s been this way for a long time the record would be OK, but the house looks fairly recent.
Randall already nailed it.
but more precisely:
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge
1 Marshlands Rd, Fremont, CA 94555
N37.698244, W123.003355
Have fun.
But Watch out for Billionaire Tom Steyer’s big big yacht belching diesel soot in your row boat.
“…might have a very pristine record…” yeah, but is it pristine from seagulls? Bird-poo heat radiation is ….
/stupidity off…. resuming normall transition 🙂
Boy you guys are quick. Saw it on my phone and recognized it as the research center on South Farallon Islands. By the time I got to log on to my computer to check and add a comment you guys already got it……
Port Angeles ?
There might be bird-made encroachments (or coatings) here. Is surface condition of the screen likely to be a feature of this record?
If so, it’s likely to have added about 0.7 degC. I can just feel it in my waters.
Should be a good day for whale watching. Make sure to have a camera ready on the boat ride.
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge Weather Station. From Robin in NZ.
Ah – I see some others already got it. Hope you have a great wee excursion Anthony and Willis.
The sixth place decimal-degree coordinates for your target weather station are:
N37.698119, W123.003536
The seagulls caught my attention. Have a lot of them where I live. When it is NOT raining you can watch the seagulls on the grass verges near the road. They do a little dance, patter their feet rapidly on the grass, this seems to fool the worms into thinking it IS raining, pop their heads up for a look see and become lunch. 🙂
NOAA data on Farallon has no data, but here are the ID’s:
NESDIS ID 15CCE6A4 NWS Location ID FNDC1
Location FARALLON ISLAND NEAR SAN FRANCISCO
Latitude N 37°41’54” Longitude W 123°00’06” HSA MTR State CA
Owner NWSWRH Channel 142 Initial Transmit Time (HH:MM:SS) 00:17:20
Great photo.
Here is a history page. The Weather Bureau ran a station there from 1902-1913. GHCN Daily has it as USC00048376 and has some precip etc data from 1948-1951, but no temp.
P.S. we need a selfie of you and Willis at the wx station with a Seagull on your shoulder.
Brokeback Stevenson Screen?
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19030328.2.62
@Streetcred, LOL welcome to common core less. (btw those gulls did instantly remind me of Hitchcock)
Richard111 wrote: “They do a little dance, patter their feet rapidly on the grass, this seems to fool the worms into thinking it IS raining, pop their heads up for a look see and become lunch. :-)”
It is called pore pressure. The stamping of their webbed feet and weight induces liquefaction of the soil, the water pore pressure causes the soil to become liquid, just like when it rains and saturates the soil. The air and the owrms are forced to the surface…. lunch.
And lunch is what Anthony and Willis will be if Farallon Asset Management Billionaire Tom Steyer sees them rowing in their little dinghy boat out to Farallon Islands, and Tom is in his 40 meter super-yacht. He’d ran flank speed and burn a kiloton of diesel to do in his #1 and #5 nemesis and chalk it up to climate change-induced “fog” for the Coast Guard.
(sorry Willis, but you are at least #5. Anthony is #1, Curry is #2, JoNova, is #3, and Tisdale is #4.)
No matter how many ways you cook it , sooner or later you would get sick of Seagull , still not far to go to the ‘shop’
Based on the geology, flora and fauna (not to mention coastal view) I am guessing Bend, OR.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.770715,-123.104553,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m5!1e2!3m3!1s13160485!2e1!3e10?hl=en
Anthony and Willis at the North Farallons, in their reincarnations, after the unfortunate Mr Steyer’s Mega-Yacht incident in a “Climate change fog bank”.