By Paul Homewood
The Met Office have rather conveniently decided that a new record might have been set in Cambridge after all, at the Botanical Gardens.
According to the Met Office location details, this is where it is situated:
It appears to be on top of the building, but I suspect the NOAA Metadata below is more accurate:
Either way, the Botanical Gardens are well surrounded by the urbanised city, particularly to the south and east, where the wind was blowing from yesterday:
If anyone is familiar with the Botanical Gardens, they might shed some light on matters.
At the moment the Botanical Garden site is showing 38.7C, compared to the 38.1C set at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), about 2 miles (3 km) north of the city centre near Girton.
Even more significantly, there is a third official site at Cambridge, run by the University’s Digital Technology Group.
This is away from the City Centre (marked Thomson Avenue) below:
Read at half hourly intervals, this site only maxed out at 36.1C:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/weather/daily-text.cgi?2019-07-25
We would expect a slight increase between the half hour readings, at 3.00 and 3.30pm, but surely not a degree or more.
Any help on the siting etc from locals would be much appreciated, but the Botanical Gardens reading, if confirmed, would appear to be badly biased by UHI.
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July 26, 2019 at 11:27AM
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