This is the climatological station of record for Odessa, Washington. It is at the residence of a COOP weather observer administered by NOAA. The photo was taken by surfacestations.org volunteer…
Category: Weather_stations
How not to measure Temperature, part 26 – counting A/C units
There’s been some recent discussion about how only rural stations have been used in the NASA GISS analysis, and those rural stations are qualified by looking at night time DOD…
How not to measure temperature, part 25
This picture, taken by www.surfacestations.org volunteer Don Kostuch is the Detroit Lakes, MN USHCN climate station of record. The Stevenson Screen is sinking into the swamp and the MMTS sensor…
How not to measure temperature part 24
Warren Meyer, one of the first surfacestations.org volunteers, delivered Tucson for us Saturday. It was discovered during an analysis of climate stations around the USA on the Climate Audit blog…
P-UHI
I’ve been involved in meteorology in one way or another since 1976, and while I knew of the vast number of COOP stations around the USA, I never knew that…
How not to measure temperature, part 23
The picture below is of the USHCN climate station of record for Newport Beach, CA When I first visited this site I did a double take. Then started searching for…
How not to measure temperature, part 22
This picture below comes to me via surfacestations.org volunteer Kristen Byrnes, a 15 year old budding scientist that has created a bit of a stir with her critique of Al…
How not to measure temperature, part 21
The recent photo submissions at surfacestations.org have demonstrated that many NOAA/NWS climate monitoring stations feature convenient close-by vehicle parking. Not to be outdone, the Paso Robles USHCN Climate Station of…
How not to measure temperature, part 19
In traveling around California and Nevada to look at NOAA USHCN climate monitoring weather stations I’ve seen some odd things. I’ve seen temperature sensors near asphalt and concrete, sensors placed…
How not to measure temperature, part 18
On Friday June 6th, I made a trip though northern California to visit four official climate monitoring stations that are part of the US Historical Climatological Network (USHCN) which has…
NOAA and NCDC Restore data access
You may recall and entry about a week ago titled: NOAA/NCDC Throws a roadblack my way. Good news! NCDC has decided to restore the access. I think this is a…
How to Measure Temperate, Part 2 – down under
Ok a simple post since I’m not up to speed today. I’ve already talked about the effort in the USA to create the Climate Reference Network (CRN) In Australia, they…
How to Measure Temperature, Part 1
After showing a number a stations where poor siting and thoughtless local influences may have biased the temperature records for a weather station, I decided I’d show some examples of…
Find the weather station
The picture above is from the National Weather Service in San Diego. It is of Laguna Beach, CA, a COOP station that it manages. This picture illustrates how some cooperative…
Standards for weather station siting using the new CRN
NOAA has put together a new series of surface stations called the Climate Reference Network (CRN) As a specialist in the technology of meteorology, I like this program a lot.…
How not to measure temperature, part 17
The picture below comes to me via the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Monterey from their website. You can see the unannotated version here: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/images/mtr/cpm/1967.jpg It is the Cooperative…
How not to measure temperature, part 16
This photo comes come to me from NOAA’s Weather Service Forecast Office in Monterey. This is the official USHCN climate station of record for Livermore, CA. USHCN # 44997 The…
How not to measure temperature, part 15
The picture below comes to me via my website www.surfacestations.org from volunteer site surveyor Bob Meyer. It is the USHCN climate station of record for Waterville, Washington. In addition to…
How not to measure temperature, part 14
This picture comes to me via www.surfacestations.org courtesy of Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. of the University of Colorado. It is the US Historical Climatological Network (USHCN) Station of Record for…
How not to measure temperature, part 13
The picture above is of the official USHCN climate station of record in Quitman, GA and comes to me via www.surfacestations.org volunteer Joel McDade. It is located at a residence,…
How not to measure temperature, part 12
One of the really odd discoveries that I’ve made while surveying climate monitoring stations around the USA is the fact that many of the official stations are located at sewage…
How not to measure temperature, part 11
This is the USHCN climate station of record for Bainbridge Georgia. It comes to me by way of surfacestations.org survey volunteer Joel McDade. Joel wins the award for finding the…
Standards for weather stations
The Station at the Monterey, CA WSO I’ve received a few requests for information regarding just what the established standards are for placing weather stations as they relate to their…
Analysis of weather station data
For those of you that want to see a detailed analysis of the data the weather stations mentioned here have produced, please take a look at Climate Audit at www.climateaudit.org…
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