Whilst it may be understandable that the Met Office has some legacy old sites in locations which have become compromised over time, it cannot be acceptable for new stations to be poorly located from the outset.
Analysis of stations opened in the 21st century indicates a worsening of the situation with over 87% of new stations falling into Classes 3 to 5. Worse still, of the 13 sites opened in the last 5 years, 8 fail to make Classes 1 or 2. Thus the proportion of "Junk" sites is actually increasing.
In 2022 the Neatishead Class 4 site was opened in the shadow of a large Radar 'Dome. In 2023 the new Arthog site was equally opened as a Class 4 inaccurate unit.
This practise of opening new inadequately accurate reporting sites must be stopped immediately or alternatively do not use their data for any form of climate reporting purposes.
One instance of particular concern is the Hull, East Park station installed in 2011. It is a Class 5 site in a very poor position in the "Animal Education Centre". It sits hard alongside what is now an overgrown hedge where tour bus vehicles park. It regularly records the regional daily high temperature on the Met Office Daily listings as well as the National highest temperature on 2 occasions so far this year. An example of this listing can be viewed here.
As well as two reputable Private Weather Sites in Hull in close proximity to the official Met Office site there is also the Hull University Research Centre's very well sited, equipped and maintained weather station.
Both the Private Weather Sites and the very high quality University site record significantly lower temperatures than the official site. In contrast to the unhelpful and evasive responses typical of my inquiries to the Met Office, the University were exceptionally helpful and even gave me direct personal access to their live online data. Closer inspection revealed the official Met Office site to be regularly recording up to 3 degrees celcius higher. Despite raising this issue with the Met Office they declined to answer my queries. When asked to supply their recent data from the site, I was referred to an archive site that operates 18 months in arrears to view it, presumably some time in the distant future.
It is not an unreasonable inference, therefore, that the Met Office are deliberately seeking to inflate the climate temperature record by installing new sites likely to record artificially raised temperatures.
If the public new of this, I think it is reasonable to assume that they would be horrified to hear of such a poor effort by an organisation that they would instinctively trust
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