Last week, the weather was pleasant and often balmy across the U.K., and to take full advantage of the gently rising warmth, there was no better place to be than Heathrow Airport. This was the spot where the hottest day U.K. record was secured on no less than five occasions. Further north, heat lovers could have headed for Hull East Park, where the Yorkshire and Humber regional day record was observed no less than four times. Of course, heat lovers might welcome the hot air blast from countless jet engines in the first location and the presence of what appears to be a solar farm located a few metres from the measuring station in the later venue. They certainly don’t appear to be much of a problem for the Met Office either, which compiles these ridiculous figures and claims seemingly for Net Zero political purposes.
Every day, the Met Office publishes the highest recorded temperature for a number of areas across the four countries in the United Kingdom. Every day, many of the same sites feature at the top of the various local lists. Last week, in Scotland, the measuring station at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, Glasgow and Leuchars featured on four days out of seven, along with Inverbervie on three. In England, Heathrow and Hull East Park were joined by Killowen on four days, along with Usk, Durham and Pershore College on three.
Could this be a coincidence that, on a large island, the hottest days more often than not only occur in very specific geographical locations? Just a few places are so blessed, despite the nationwide Met Office network that numbers around 380 individual stations. Of course not. The obvious clue is at Heathrow and Hull Park East (see photo below) where enormous human-caused heat corruptions are to be found.
Type in the Met Office supplied co-ordinates for Hull East Park into Google Earth, and the red marker at the bottom locates the measuring station barely a few metres from what looks like a large solar complex. Whatever it is, and it might be connected to nearby animal activities in some way, does not seem very natural. For their part solar farms chuck out a lot of local atmospheric heat. In a paper published in Nature, scientists found radical changes in nearby air temperatures and areas were “regularly 3-4°C warmer than wildlands at night”. The Met Office has previous form in declaring local heat records next to solar farms. Last month, the highest temperature in the U.K. was to be found at Chertsey, slap bang next to what was a newly-installed solar facility.
The oddities in Hull, which is near an Animal Education Centre, have attracted the interest of the investigative journalist Paul Homewood and his band of citizen sleuths. Ray Sanders noted that the University of Hull recorded a temperature 2.6°C lower at a site only a few hundred metres away. He observed that this variation is “implausible”, particularly as two other private sites were said to have agreed with the University reading.
The elephant in the Met Office Room is that, needless to say, almost all of these heat readings occur at stations classed 4 and 5 that come with very large ‘uncertainties’ between 2-5°C. These ratings and uncertainties are set by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and reflect the human impact on temperature measurements caused by nearby activities, buildings and other structures.
As regular readers will undoubtedly recall, the Daily Sceptic obtained a list of these classes earlier in the year under a freedom of information (FOI) request. So, we are now able to disclose that 39.1% of all heat records declared last week were in near junk Class 4 with uncertainties of 2°C, and 37.3% arose in junk Class 5 with possible errors up to 5°C. Add in a contribution of 8.2% from Class 3, and its uncertainties of 1°C, and nearly nine out of ten records are heavily flawed by human-caused corruption.
It might be noted that Heathrow is a generous Class 3, since it is not clear if the engine exhaust is taken into the rating account. It can be reported that the 110 figures compiled last week showed little change after a couple of days, and they might be regarded as providing a reasonable indication of results over a longer period.
The appearance of Pershore College no less than three times in last week’s heat records is a big disappointment. This is a Class 4 site but it is one of only three stations that currently constitute the 350-year Central England Temperature (CET) record. The CET is unique in the meteorological world since it has provided a continuous record since 1659. It was described recently as a “world treasure” by Professor William Happer. The project is currently in the care of the Met Office and stuffing the database with Class 4 near-junk data is something to be regretted. In fact, with the inclusion of Stonyhurst, two out of the three constituent sites are Class 4. Is it not beyond the wit of the Met Office to find three Class 1 sites in the whole of Central England to ensure the scientific integrity of this valuable dataset, handed down over many generations?
Many of the Class 4 and 5 locations have been corrupted over time by urban heat, although the tiny number of pristine Class 1 sites suggest that the Met Office has not made it a priority to move them to gain more accurate and natural measurements of air temperature. This might surprise, of course, since the Met Office uses these figures to catastrophise recent increases in national and global temperatures, using measurements down to one hundredth of a degree centigrade.
It might be expected that new stations would be carefully sited in Class 1 locations, but this does not seem to be happening. Citizen sleuth Ray Sanders noted the opening of a station at Neatishead in December 2022 and was surprised to discover it had a rating of Class 4. Observed Sanders: “ This raises a very serious issue. Why is the Met Office introducing new weather stations into its network that are of such poor quality?… Someone of a suspicious mind might think they are deliberately adding these junk sites simply to make current U.K. temperatures artificially higher!”
Ray Saunders also reveals an FOI that he made to the Met Office seeking information on the assessment of individual stations. He was told that each weather station was assessed against both the WMO and Met Office inspections standards. But it was disclosed that it was the Met Office standards that are used as the “official benchmark” for assessing the suitability of sites to provide data for the long-term climate record.
Saunders leaves us in no doubt what he feels about this decision. “Screw international standards ISO 19289:2014(E). We are going to use our own standards that we decided on; you cannot question them, and we will not allow any independent assessment of… What do you mean we helped arrange the ISO standard with the WMO… Who cares? So what you gonna do about it, eh?”
Harsh words, but then the gathering storm across social media about the scientific scandal surrounding the temperature gathering methods of the Met Office – and other State-run meteorological operations around the world – has, to date, met with a deafening silence.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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It’s all crap, and it has been since the beginning. Here’s a very simple piece of investigation I performed eleven years ago, in January 2013:
https://public-highway.blogspot.com/2013/01/rainmasterall-since-records-began.html
I’d just love to know what the downtick is about.
Care to stump up a fiver to enlighten little me, downticker?!
These are climate alarmists. And ofcourse their comments here would be welcome as it lets us see how absurd they are.
I do not understand why poorly sited stations are thought to have +\- errors.
All cases I have read about seem to have sited with causes of systematic error and none are negative. I have never heard of a station where there was persistent artificial cooling effects. The only errors I have read about are systematic bias upwards.
The East Park complex is a a glazed roof, which clearly acts as a greenhouse. Here is a view from underneath. No wonder alarmists refer to the greenhouse effect.
We are now about to enter into a Labour Government Green Cloud Cuckoo Land where we will all apparently get cheap clean energy. ——-Except where in the world is there a country with such a thing? Cheap clean energy means only one thing –wind and sun. So what country in the world has cheap wind and sun energy? —–The answer is NONE. The countries with the most wind, Germany and Denmark have the highest electricity prices. So why is the wind in the UK going to be cheap? It certainly isn’t so far. A quick look over our electricity bills since we started going daft for wind will reveal that.
The cretinous Green Goon Ed Miliband who gave us the Climate Change Act in 2008 and therefore all of this wind, surely cannot believe his luck that the Tories had an 80 seat majority and chucked it all away after infighting about a silly birthday cake and now he is going to have his grubby eco socialist hands on our energy supply. Although Boris and the fake Tories were heading down the same sort of Green fantasy land that panders to the UN and WEF Sustainable nonsense, it is Miliband and Labour that will really start to hammer us with this pretend to save the planet communism.
In order to get away with this tyranny you need a very plausible excuse and that excuse is Global warming (climate change). But what you find upon closer inspection of this issue is a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency, but with NO EVIDENCE. So because there is no evidence the climate establishment has resorted to calling failed models evidence instead. They think that if the present some output from a model and refer to it as “science” that the public who hate arguing or discussing science will just accept it and guess what—-they mostly do. So what you get is “warmest ever recorded” and “hottest ever” based on a temperature record that is s complete dogs breakfast of adjusted and manipulated data that if it was happening in any other walk of life the perpetrators would be arrested and charged with fraud.
——OK we are all sick of the fake Tories but if the UK public think life will be sweet under Labour and Miliband than I am sorry but please keep your electricity bills in a folder and see them skyrocket after the phony climate charlatans take over in July.
If we are going to have a Liebour Government with a mega-majority in the HoC, then the opposition has to come from outside on the streets every weekend. We should start next Saturday, BEFORE the election, across the country.
I’m all for that, the Palestine protesters can’t always have the streets to themselves. Though Muslims do seem to be good at dominating public spaces.
Except you would struggle to get everyone in your street to agree to something never mind the whole country. ——-We are about to get what we deserve—An eco socialist pretend to save the planet government that will have smart meters forced into every house to control the supply and cost via dynamic pricing, gas central heating ripped out, taxes on everything based on carbon footprint, priced out of going on holiday or eating eat and astronomical energy bills. If we thought the Green nonsense was bad under the Tories then we “ain’t seen nuthin yet”
As an activist with Reform Uk who are the only party to scrap Net Zero We in our constituency have struggled to get sufficient activists to run a half decent campaign. Can anyone who claims to be worried about rising costs complain yet couldn’t be arsed to get off their butts to help us.
Most will still vote for this parasite political class pandering to the UN and WEF—Traitors
I watched the weather on the news at lunchtime and again in the evening yesterday. The max temperature over the next few days was forecast as 28c at lunch. By the end of the day they’d whacked up their prediction to 31c. Someone obviously said 28c didn’t sound alarmist enough.
Top temp in East Sussex this week, 25c for two days, the back down to 19c to 21c for two weeks.
Forecast today for Milan 24c and Turin 23c
Yes that’s right, a reasonable summer’s day in Southern England.
The red on the weather maps means Communism.
However the Beeboids ( those addicted to the BBC) lap it all up and believe the nonsense. Not only that, but they are bringing their children up to fear our normal mild and temperate climate and then wonder why the children are too fearful to go out into the World.
We are lied to on a daily basis. It’s become quite amusing.
I find this terribly unamusing. The climate changers have gone full-scale COVID a while ago and trying to run their racket on endlessly repeated lies and headlines from perfectly random parts of the world where something happening to suite the narrative is happening. The original attempt was quite successful. I hope the rerun will end up rather less so. But I don’t think this can be taken for granted.
But they are getting away with it
Since they’re controlling the MSM, there’s nobody who could effectively challenge them in public. OTOH, insofar stuff like FB comments go, they’re – at least in Germany – getting nothing but scorn for their claims about breaking heat record after heat record while the temperatures in the real world are rather cool for the time of the year and the weather was mostly rainy so far.
Correct and we all realise that the MSM is just the propaganda department (Public Relations as it is called now) of the Climate Industrial Complex
Met Office monthly anomaly now running at minus 1.2C – the first below “average” month this year. No doubt this will be yet another “warm” month after a few days of sunny weather!
” This might surprise, of course, since the Met Office uses these figures to catastrophise recent increases in national and global temperatures, using measurements down to one hundredth of a degree centigrade”
No it doesn’t surprise, it is the logical conclusion of their mendacity.
How, how, how has every government agency become so corrupt? I feel like we are living through the looking glass. The people who work for the government seem to have no shame about this corruption and lunacy. It is becoming the norm. Nothing can be trusted. Nothing.
I think there is a case for leaving London out of weather forecasts. The large urban heat sink, concrete and tarmac, contributes to an exaggerated temperature.
London is shown with the highest temperature almost every day, even though it it false.
Here’s what chat GPT says. Duh