Class 5 Weather Stations
By Paul Homewood
Let’s take a closer look at some of these junk Class 5 sites:
Achfary
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Achfary holds the records for top UK temperatures in both January and December:
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St James Park
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One of the four 40C+ stations in July 2022
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Cambridge Botanical Gardens
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Previous UK highest temperature record.
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Faversham
Record highest temperature in August
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Pershore & Stonyhurst
Two of the three sites used for CET
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Long established stations such as Durham, Bradford and Sheffield are also all Class 5, as well as Eskdalemuir, which is normally regarded as a reliable, rural station.
Amongst the Class 4s are Hawarden Airport, which holds the record temperature in Wales, and Charterhall, the record in Scotland.
Only Class 1 and 2 stations should be used for climatological purposes, including analysis of trends, national datasets and reporting of temperature extremes.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
The relatively poor station in Cambridge Botanical Gardens received a lot of publicity when it indicated a ‘record’.
https://i.postimg.cc/QCWr9SSc/temp-Imagenzb9yd.avif
https://i.postimg.cc/gkF0y6RG/temp-Image-Wsc7gr.avif
Botanical Gardens is a cracker, definitely caused by CO2 (first link)!
Eskdalemuir
https://weatherobservationswebsite.blogspot.com/2019/08/eskdalemuir-observatory-centennial.html
Compared to Altnaharra
https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/sutherland-village-records-coldest-september-temperature-in-scotland-for-20-years-213140/
At least STV got it right when reporting on Achfary:
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/what-the-foehn-how-scotland-hit-a-record-19-9c-in-january
Nothing wrong with some honest reporting of unusual conditions while explaining that they are not a guide to climate.
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So Glowbull Warming threatens to boil the oceans and spark off a sixth extinction event.
“Scientists” like Richard Betts “knows” that the survival of mankind is apparently in the balance.
But many of his very favourite meteorological stations give junk data. He has done nothing to rectify this situation and is obviously more than content to scare the gormless and gullible with data he knows is bollox.
Odd. What would he have to do to risk the sack? The imagination boggles.
The formally respected MetOrifice is just part of the ecofascist propaganda operation.
The record for the highest minimum in th UK (26.8Deg C) comes from a class 2 rural sight in Oxfordshire. The reading at RMS Oxford was 8.9Deg lower.Can anyone explain this?
David, I am curious to know why you feel the Shirburn Model Farm manual weather station (minimum temperature “record”) is Class 2? This is an aerial view of the site and it looks very poor indeed to me which would account for its dodgy reading. n.b. there is an odd thing that so many records occur at manual sites despite them being only a small minority.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/51%C2%B040'08.4%22N+0%C2%B059'42.0%22W/@51.6677622,-0.9958736,44m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d51.669!4d-0.995?entry=ttu
The small white square just off centre and right bang next to a building is the Stevenson Screen. I would call it junk and liable to being manipulated for publicity in the same way as the Brogdale, Faversham 2003 “record” was.
Certainly doesn’t look that good. That it recorded a record low which I wouldn’t have thought the most likely is vaguely odd.
More interesting is manual/automatic records. That would be dependent on numbers of manual versus automatic there are/were at the time of recording. I don’t know what the current split is either in installations or records
That is not the correct station, it was moved in 2012 140m to the north away from the buildings, the old station is still running, max min and rain only. The new current site was started in 1998 with a campbell scientific AWS and ran for 14 years in parallel to check differences. The diurnal variation in the current site was very slightly less, the mean was negligable. The Met Office who have just done their regular inspection believe that the running of the two stations might be unique. There new buildings were erected in 2014 and 2017 and there is one more not on the photo erected in 2022. Hope this helps.
PS the site is in a slight rain shadow of the Chilterns, RMS Oxford has an average of 4% more rain annually. In 2023 the difference was 11%.
David, i cant see this new station on Google earth. can you point to it please.
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Thanks for the correction David. Presumably this is it.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Shirburn,+Watlington+OX49+5DT/@51.6694444,-0.9963541,44m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x487692c2647f9465:0x885caa2f446662c6!8m2!3d51.659638!4d-0.991109!16s%2Fm%2F06zk3dd?entry=ttu
The Met Office records I looked at still showed the old site co-ordinates, how did you find it?
You have it. How did I find it, I go there every morning at 0900 G.M.T. and have done for a very long time!
David when you say RMS Oxford do you mean the Radcliffe Observatory site that Paul has more recently produced a thread on? If so John Hulquist has identified an intermittent building (marquee maybe) that regularly appears alongside and must surely compromise its readings. I posted a google earth image there as well.
Yes – RMS stands for Radcliffe Meteorological Station. A marquee is erected a few times a year for a few days and this is noted as a comment. I have not noticed that this makes a significant difference to the readings relative to Model Farm.
Well, Achadh Taigh Phairidh is “nestled on the banks of a loch with several large mountains to the south, and it’s these mountains that would have dried the air out and warmed it significantly before reaching the hamlet. Warm Foehn winds are more common in Moray and Aberdeenshire in a west to south westerly wind”, …… and also then being closer to the GulfStream than say, Blackpool ….
DO not forget we have INVEREWE Gardens further down the coast + The Summer isles … Now I wonder why they are called that ? Then there is also the Black Isle on the E Coast but only around 40 – 50 miles as the crows Blows along the Valleys from Ullapool and benefits from this proximity and shelter from OpenSea winds.
Not forgetting the ‘palm trees’ at Plockton of course.
Och munn, there’s dying £5 palm trees everywhere now: bargain basement at the local Garden centres after GoBull warning didn’t materialise . Scotland’s other national flag …… ;-) ( after litter campaigns removed it )
South Carolina set state record, allegedly, with big fanfare in 2012. It was pure BS. I complained to governor’s office, but got no reply.
Site is here: 33°59’29.60″ N 81°01’26.81″ W
If you look at it on Google Earth, you’ll have to back up to at least 11/2020, as the site has been bulldozed.
Note parking lot within 25 yards, and rail bed within 15 yards. If you back out the view, you will see it is just damn urban, with myriad streets and rooftops. An absurd site for a state record.
Well the only question remaining is- do the locations of class 3,4 & 5 instruments provide measurements that fit the CC narrative, if so then there is no way the Met Office will disregard them regardless of how meaningless they are – since they outnumber the class 1 & 2, they are required to drive up the Climate Crisis/Emergency/Catastrophe/Disaster – we are all going to boil to death.
There are Lies, Damn Lies and Met Office temperatures, make the lie so big that it must be true, stick it on the MSM with a picture of a bikini clad young lady and it is true.
Given that the MetOrifice is an ecoactivist outfit they will be quite happy punting out propaganda which does seem to be all they do now.
I wonder how the Gatwick Airport station located between the runway and the emergency runway they are trying to get permission to upgrade next to a crossover road fairs? The location is perfect for providing pilot information which should be its only function. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.1500294,-0.1825951,28m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
“The location is perfect for providing pilot information which should be its only function.”
That’s the rub. They are trying to use a network created for other purposes to demand the destruction of the middle-class.
A thermometer next to a runway is fine. But don’t read it and tell me the world is on fire.