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.
@Steven Mosher are you really stating that the finest minds in climate science in universities couldn’t find UHI ? Really ? I did a GCSE geography project in England where we took temperatures in a village and outside of a village to demonstrate the UHI effect.
“””””……JohnWho says:
May 24, 2014 at 6:01 am
“This weekend (weather permitting)…”
Well, the weather may not have permitted, but perhaps the climate would?…..”””””
I have been out there in a 20 ft center console fishing boat, in very quiet seas. Almost glassy calm ocean, say a hundred yards from the shore of any of those islands.
Even so, three’s no way in hell, I would ever have tried to actually land, on that one. There are very few places, where it is reasonably safe to land, and it’s best to be with somebody, who actually knows where and how to do so safely. Quite apart from the fact, you are generally not allowed to. Was worth the run just to say I’d been out there. Furthest out I ever went in that boat, (out of Santa Cruz) was 75 miles; chasing albacore.
“””””…..goldminor says:
May 23, 2014 at 11:31 pm
george e. smith says:
May 23, 2014 at 10:26 pm
As with many such narrow passages to the sea, the channel under the Golden Gate Bridge is deep. But outside of the mouth, the silt load drops out, and there are shallows there……”””””
Actually, I never said any such thing.
I believe you are citing something Willis posted; NOT me.
Steven Mosher says:
May 23, 2014 at 1:18 pm
Steven, I gotta say, once your algorithm gets done with it, I’m not surprised you find no UHI effect. Here is the record you cite, from the San Francisco Bay Buoy:
Let me get this straight. It’s a buoy. Takes temperatures every hour. Has a gap in the data.
The raw data is cooling fast, 3.55 degrees per century.
After “quality control”, shockingly, it shows less cooling, 3.19°C per century.
But then, after “breakpoint alignment”, meaning adjustment to better agree with the surrounding region, we’re down to a drop of 1.86°C per century. Funny how that works … seems to me I’d need a whole lot more evidence before I screwed with my own data that way.
But in any case, even after “adjustment” the buoy record is cooling at nearly 2°C per century, and the “regional expectation” during that time is warming, not cooling but warming, at 0.7 ± 0.2°C per century.
Hardly seems like a poster child for either your method or your claims about UHI … I’m not seeing the logic in the “breakpoint alignment”.
w.