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It’s Warmer At Park Forest & No Wonder!

April 21, 2014
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By Paul Homewood

 

In my last post on Illinois temperature adjustments, I compared December temperatures for 1977 and 2013 within the Northeast Division. In most cases, last December was much colder than in 1977, but two sites bucked the trend, Park Forest and Elgin, which were warmer by 0.8F and 0.3F respectively.

Elgin, with a population of 109,000 would appear to be affected by UHI, but Park Forest is a much smaller town of 22,000. However, the Station Metadata gives a clue as to why the temperature record may not be reliable at Park Forest.

 

 

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http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/homr/#ncdcstnid=20005886&tab=LOCATIONS

 

The blue marker shows where the current weather station has been located since 2007, and the red is where it was previously.

Now let’s zoom in.

 

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The station is now located at, what COOP records describe as, the Water Department, amid concrete surroundings, (and also next to the railway line). Previously, it was tucked away in a garden.

 

Clearly, this is one temperature record that is worthless.

from → Climate Change
3 Comments
  1. Herve permalink
    April 22, 2014 7:06 am

    As usual, alarmists are considering ONLY very biased data, exclusively those in favor of their propaganda.
    It is a characteristical attitude from the Left in any matter, worldwide…

  2. Joe Public permalink
    April 22, 2014 7:37 am

    It’s amazing what a meteorologically-unqualified Brit, ensconced east of the pond, can determine about our cousins’ weather-related “data”.

    Well done, Paul.

  3. Paul-82 permalink
    April 22, 2014 12:02 pm

    Do you know exactly where the measuring unit is located? Not so likely on top of building where the blue marker is, or it could be the small ‘dot’ to the left, or it could be futher to the left beside the concrete apron, on the grass. Wherever, it is too close to the buildings and machinery.

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