EXCLUSIVE: Almost All ‘Extreme’ Temperature Highs in UK Now Being Recorded at Junk Sites with Massive Possible Errors
Over the last few days the UK has experienced balmy spring weather with temperatures often settling in the low 20s Celsius. The Met Office has been out in force colouring the maps orange and declaring ‘extreme’ highs all over the green and pleasant land. Or more accurately, a remarkably few chosen spots across the g&p land. Net Zero promotion demands ever higher temperature recordings so only unnaturally heat-ravaged sites provide most of the daily records. I looked at the last nine days of Met Office records to Sunday May 18th and can reveal that nearly nine out of 10 local ‘extreme’ daily temperature highs were posted in junk Class 4 and super junk Class 5 sites with internationally-recognised ‘uncertainties’ of 2°C and 5°C respectively.
Certain locations crop up constantly in the records. In nine days the Scottish sites at Aboyne and Tyndrum recorded area highs eight and seven times respectively. In England, Coton-in-the-Elms recorded seven daily highs while Kielder Castle posted six. Of course the recording of highs in these corrupted sites didn’t mean the air temperature was representative of the wider surrounding area. It just meant that the sites were poorly located next to unnatural heat sources and were producing a false natural air record, recently re-badged by the Met Office as a so-called ‘extreme” high. Until the Met Office sorts out its largely junk-class 380-plus weather station network, these records and recordings are largely meaningless.
Every day the Met Office posts a daily high temperature for 16 locations around the UK. In the nine consecutive days under review, I initially found that 83.8% of the highs were recorded in Class 4 and 5 sites rated by the World Meteorological Organisation to have the large ‘uncertainties’ up to 5°C. No less than 36.6% of records came from Class 5 sites that have no qualifying criteria for accuracy and can be located anywhere. Quite how any Class 4 and 5 site can be used to calculate a national let alone a global temperature has long been a mystery, and their central use to promote the Net Zero fantasy is a scientific and political scandal. But I looked further into the claimed records and found the overall picture was even worse than it first appeared.
The above picture from Google Earth shows the location of the Kirkwall weather station marked in red. It is claimed to be a Class 2 site, a pristine rating with no ‘uncertainties’. The Met Office has very few of these Class 2 rated sites, with 78% of its stations to be found in the bottom two junk categories. But there is no way this is a Class 2 site. It is located at Kirkwall airport, barely 50 metres from what appears to be the aircraft park. Nearby buildings, car parks and roads provide ample opportunities for heat corruptions. Yet six times in the last nine days Kirkwall was said to hold the temperature record for Orkney and Shetland. I removed the supposedly ‘non-junk’ Kirkwall from the overall calculation with the result that no less than 87.4% of daily highs are in the junk classes.
Of course it beggars belief that on a large island comprising four different nations and wide variations in geographical locations the same old suspects keep recording the hottest daily temperatures. Was nowhere warmer for seven days in the East Midlands than Coton-in-the-Elms? What is so special about Kielder Castle that on six days it was hotter than everywhere else in North-East England? Should heat lovers in Northern Ireland and Wales move to Castlederg and Porthmadog respectively where they would have enjoyed five days of record highs? Scotland is often on the chilly side, so can we assume that house prices have a premium in Tyndrum, where in the nine days under review it only twice lost the highest temperature spot in the Central, Tayside and Fife region?
Earlier this month, citizen super sleuth Ray Sanders examined the central England Class 5 weather station at Coton-in-the-Elms and concluded: “There are worse sites … but not that many.”
Late last year, Science Feedback ‘fact checked’ articles published by both the Daily Sceptic and Ray Sanders detailing the junk status of most of the Met Office sites and its invention of temperature data from over 100 non-existent sites. Written largely by the Met Office, the ‘fact check’ suggested that stations rated internally as ‘Unsatisfactory’ did not meet the required standards for data validity, and recordings would not be used in the official records. A recent Freedom of Information request revealed that just 27 sites had been placed on the meteorological naughty step. As they used to say in the Wild West days of the City of London, self-regulation. like self-abuse, leads to exceedingly short sight. Nevertheless if the Met Office, marking its own homework, says the 27 sites are rubbish, who are we to argue?
It is therefore a surprise to see that Castlederg is on the ‘Unsatisfactory’ list and, as noted above, it produced a recent local record five days out of nine. It is possible the list has been updated in the last few months and Castlederg has been removed. It would be interesting to discover if it was on the list on July 21st 2021, when a Northern Ireland record temperature of 31.3°C was declared at the site. Other unsatisfactory sites quoted in the last few days include Redesdale Camp and Hawarden, the latter being a Class 4 airport location that holds the national temperature record for Wales set on July 21st 2021.
Why is all this relevant and important? As we have shown many times at the Daily Sceptic, this super-heated data is fed into the mainstream to promote the political needs of Net Zero. Just one example out of many saw Justin Rowlatt from the BBC reporting last July that climate change is dramatically increasing the frequency of “extreme” high temperatures in the UK, “new Met Office analysis has confirmed”. Rowlatt also observed that there had been a 40% increase in the number of “pleasant” days, defined as around 20°C. “These changes may sound positive,” wails the BBC activist-in-chief, “but the UK’s shifting climate represents a dangerous upheaval for our ecosystems as well as our infrastructure.”
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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The thermometer record of Earth is a dog’s breakfast of manipulated and adjusted data that has been fiddled about with more times than a prostitutes knickers. —–Mainstream media keep this “hottest ever” propaganda fresh in the minds of an unsuspecting public who have come to believe that the climate is all changing dangerously around them. None will ever have looked at any climate or temperature data. They will just tune into their 6 O’Clock news to hear about the “climate emergency” and will swallow it all down as if it were some kind of ultimate truth. —–IT ISN’T
At the train station this am in Sussex there were warnings to carry water due to ‘hot weather’ – all 21 C of it. I call that a perfect temp, nice, warm, not hot whatsoever, great to be outside. But in Climate Con world, 21C is Thermogeddon, surely granny will die.
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Things are awry if a pleasant day is considered a bad thing!
Utterly shameless from the Myth Office. State-funded deceit and duplicity.
I wonder if a private prosecution could be instigated against the directors of the Met. office for malfeasance. The data could be construed as a danger to the public due to it’s inaccuracy.
They’ll then obviously claim that it is very much their feasance to overestimate temperature to shock the general public into action about climate change before it’s too late and another tipping point unfortunately came and went without anything tipping. That’s called increase the level of perceived personal threat by hard-hitting, emotional messaging as climate collapse (or health system collapse or whatever collapse) inevitabely looms otherwise.
These people are spectacularly uncreative in both their fears and predictions and their methods. They always fear XY collapse in 2567 years and predict XY collapse in 25.67 minutes in order to get people to do something about it before it’s too late!!!
What is the correct global temperature, I wonder….?
And in what Earth orifice is the global thermometer inserted to measure it?
It ought to be relatively straightforward to publish only Class 1 data, backdated as far as it will go, without ‘adjustments’. This would give a much more reliable insight to any climate change. I suspect a simple spreadsheet would provide sufficient data analysis capacity.
Bet there will be many arguments put forward why this would not be a ‘good thing’.
The data is used to create the “Global Mean Temperature Anomaly” (GMTA) which shows how global average temperatures vary with respect to a baseline average calculated using temperature data from 1979 to 1989.
The GMTA is not temperatures, not data, but derived numbers from manipulated input temperature data which is of poor quality and covers less than 10% of the Earth’s surface.
The reason for the GMTA is it is the only way they can show “global warming” because the reality is any actual warming is unmeasurable because it is so slight as to be undetectable using even accurate measuring instruments.
However by manipulating input data to reflect supposed warming effect from C02 gives the required answer… Armageddon.
Note: the 1970s was a decade of sudden, significant cooling which reversed in the 1980s, so any temperatures after 1979 will be above the baseline start point.
20⁰C is just 1⁰C higher than the minimum room temperature the NHS recommends “for health reasons” (19⁰C) which means it can be sort-of pleasant provided there’s no wind, one is wearing a jacket and tries to stay in the sun as much as possible. Otherwise, one would usually describe it as somewhat chilly.
Could we perhaps relocate the frost dwarves (obviously not giants) staffing the Met office to some location their metabolism must be better adapted to, say, northern Canada or northern Greenland, so that they can stop fretting about the heat risk caused by an increase of the number of not-really-pleasant UK spring days?
There are no bloody high temperatures here in England. It is the middle of May and I have to have my heating on for about 6 hours in the morning. This is just crap. Yes there are droughts in other countries but most of these are a result of weather weapons.
I wonder if the planet earth actually cares what temperature its at? It never has been in the last 4.6 billion years so why do we?
The net zero tyrants will use any lie or falsification of records to advance their goals. They are all hoping to break the public’s will to resist, just as they have broken Tommy Robinson.
Is there any government in the West, not just in the UK, that isn’t lying to us continuously?