New Sardinia Record Temperature Not Set At Official Station
July 27, 2023
By Paul Homewood
This claim has been doing the rounds:
However as one eagle-eyed observer has noted, Jerzu is not a recognised climate station:
https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1684539630199218178
As with so many other claimed records, the quality of the siting, equipment and recordings is highly questionable, and certainly should not be bandied about as a record until fully validated.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
It’s reported on the BBC. News you can’t trust.
Any sane, reasonable person would now be questioning why we are paying the BBC to report deliberate deceit. Go to google maps yourself, put in coordinates 39.7956N 9.5131E. Flip it to satelitte view and yes the “meteorological station” is by the astro pitch. Now pick up the little yellow (street view) man and go for a “drive” on the road around and you will see for yourself the sick joke that passes for a weather reporting point in full blistering sun. So much for Shade temperature. I think I shall pop over to my nearest UK climate station armed with a gas blow torch and warm it up for half an hour to set a new UK record – after all it will be more accurate than this crap.
If Mr GrimNasty is reading I would love to hear his justification for this site.
Just notified Robin Monotti (“good old English name” as Al Murray the pub landlord would say) of this thread. He may help keep us informed of some more of these mafia style weather stations.
A blow torch is a good substitute if you haven’t got a Typhoon or 3 to hand.
Is that it on a lamp post with a tv aerial on the top?
You couldn’t make it up – but they really did!
Where did you get that lat/lon for Jerzu? Do you have a URL?
Thanks, Ray
Sorry for delay, only just picked up on your question. Go to
https://meteonetwork.eu/it/stations-list
Under “Regiona/selezionare” scroll to “Sardegna” The drop down screen is in alphabetical order so go to “Jerzu” Coordinates are shown there. Put those coordinates into Google maps and hey presto.
Now the station equipment is actually detailed here
http://www.sar.sardegna.it/documentazione/strumenti/retestazioni.asp
It states “The stations in question are mainly of the Silimet AD2/22 type.” You can google those models for yourself.
Check out this disgusting bullshit article from Marco (so far up his own backside he never sees daylight ) Silva the laughably titled BBC climate misinformation specialist.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66314338
He actually claims “For that reason, thermometers are placed inside Stevenson screens – purpose-built, white-slatted boxes at a height of 1.25m to prevent direct heat from the ground and other hard surfaces from affecting any reading.”
Well the measuring equipment used does NOT fit into a Stevenson Screen and as you can see from the streetview image of theJezru site it is simply pole mounted in an atrocious site in full sun.
Just to put really make the point, I personally made contact with people in Jezru and confirmed the site.
Robin Monotti also checked his facts and I gave him the above confirmation details.
It rather helps understanding Italian for this type of research! I do as does Robin.
I am compiling an extensive dossier regarding the corruption of weather records. It is certainly more “Global” a problem than any “boiling”
Does that help?
Street view image that should centre on the “weather station” if you can really call it that!
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7954619,9.5126278,3a,15y,111.08h,89.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svv3OBtjsNCesg_BzoouFQg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Thanks, Ray. That does help. I was at meteonetwork, but did not dig down enough. The picture of the station is the cherry on the cake. The temperature sensor is directly in the sun.
It is interesting that BBC dances around the question of the Jerzu station meeting WMO standards.
Ray: It appears that the one you found is not the one with the 48.2 deg C reading.
This one below has the high temp in the table, which confirms that is the one in question. You will need to click on the station on the map. Its Jezru RU. Apparently there are a LOT of ag stations in the area. 3 in Jezru.
https://dati-annuali-rete-arpas-2021-arpas.hub.arcgis.com/apps/dati-meteo-sardegna-ultimi-7-giorni/explore
I looked up the one in the aregis.com site on Google. It is just as bad for siting.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B047'44.2%22N+9%C2%B036'47.2%22E/@39.791339,9.605418,39m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d39.7956!4d9.6131?entry=ttu
which of course, is all here…..
It’s not in the list of WMO Centennial Stations in Italy.
The WMO says this about them
Long-term meteorological observations are part of the irreplaceable cultural and scientific heritage of mankind that serve the needs of current and future generations for long-term high quality climate records. They are unique sources of past information about atmospheric parameters, thus are references for climate variability and change assessments. To highlight this importance, WMO has a mechanism to recognize centennial observing stations. By so doing, the Organization promotes sustainable observational standards and best practices that facilitate the generation of high-quality time series data.
The mechanism involves close collaboration between WMO climate, network and instrument experts representing WMO Technical Commissions, the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Members and the WMO Secretariat. The May 2017 WMO Executive Council meeting recognized a first set of WMO centennial observing stations (see Recognized stations below). Another call for the nomination of candidate stations has been issued in November 2017. Further calls are planned to be released every two years.
There are two in Sardinia: Aggius in the north and Carloforte Osservatorio in the south, on an island off the west of Sardinia
I wouldn’t get too excited about this. This sort of quality is normal.
The bellwether record breaking 47deg C for Palermo was recorded at a WMO centennial site at Palermo observatory on top of an historical building. Records go back to 1791 what could possibly go wrong.
The observatory website is very helpful and provides details of the weather station instrumentation and some pictures of the set up on the rooftop.
A number of potential quality issues can be observed just by looking at the pictures. I am reasonably certain the air conditioning condensers sited adjacent to the recording instruments were not there in 1791.
My view is the meteorological community will just double down and pretend there is nothing wrong with the temperature records, after all they are saving the world.
Another helping of confirmation bias please!
https://edu.inaf.it/approfondimenti/scoperte/le-stazioni-meteorologiche-dellosservatorio-di-palermo/
Sorry but lm slightly confused, I thought that the Jerzu station, the one in question, was on Sardinia whereas Palermo is on Sicily.
I was just showing that even if jerez sardinia was a WMO centennial station like Palermo, it doesn’t actually make much difference to the quality of weather station siting.
Palermo is a bellwether WMO centennial weather station that actually only records the temperature of the air plumes from the adjacent air con condensers.
Update https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66314338
This Marco silva chap really is as thick as two short planks. Official complaint with extensive data gone in.
It was set at Jerzu RU https://dati-annuali-rete-arpas-2021-arpas.hub.arcgis.com/apps/dati-meteo-sardegna-ultimi-7-giorni/explore
See it here, and nearby stations come close at the same time.
https://goo.gl/maps/mSfNvYexf6xTic1o9
Thanks Tim
That screen is far too close to vegetation and the road to count as an acceptable site
But the BBC says the temperatures are recorded in Stevenson Screens, and it is a false claim to suggest otherwise https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66314338
And?
That is NOT the Jezru station. See my response to Les Johnson above. You can follow my link to the exact coordinates from the organisations website and details of the equipment. No Stevenson Screen involved.
Paul, further to my previous comments, a typical unofficial Italian weather station looks like this.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6201441,9.3450216,3a,30y,317.29h,90.8t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s01ZzNec8hxHG1uIVAsqBXA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D01ZzNec8hxHG1uIVAsqBXA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D192.66199%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
This one is near to the Jerzu site and known as Escalaplano (coordinates from the https://meteonetwork.eu/it/stations-list
are 39.6203N 9.3450E)
These really are completely ridiculous sites for claiming any records at all.
The only sites that can be relied on in Italy are the official Italian Met Office which is ironically run by the Air Force.
The site Timothy Daw is referring to is quite some distance away from Jerzu but I really can’t be bothered to look into the details as it will inevitably be equally rubbish.
What makes you think that is the Jerzu site?
Go to the link in my comment, zoom in on the aerial view, click on the different stations and look at the temperature records displayed in the table. That is the one with the highest temperature. Then check position on Google maps.
AsI posred above
Go to
https://meteonetwork.eu/it/stations-list
Under “Regiona/selezionare” scroll to “Sardegna” The drop down screen is in alphabetical order so go to “Jerzu” Coordinates are shown there. Put those coordinates into Google maps and hey presto.
Now the station equipment is actually detailed here
http://www.sar.sardegna.it/documentazione/strumenti/retestazioni.asp
It states “The stations in question are mainly of the Silimet AD2/22 type.” You can google those models for yourself.
It is the “station” by the astro pitch.