Cambridge Botanical “Too Compromised” For Climatological Purposes

By Paul Homewood

Thanks to reader calvertn, we have finally pinned down the Stevenson Screen at Cambridge Botanical Park:

At the top right is the cafe already identified.

And as Tonyb commented, the site really is far too compromised to be used for climatological purposes:

It’s poorly placed anyway With a variety of buildings belonging to the gardens close by including greenhouses, but with significant development just outside the site as well, as can be seen with the last but one picture with that vast array of solar panels on a large building. Cambridge station is close by.

The city has grown enormously and these days the botanic garden is probably one of those sites too compromised to do anything more than supply approximate figures, rather than scientifically valid ones to tenths of a degree.

Just one more comment. The very large building to the northwest is the Sainsbury Laboratory, which was built as recently as 2011.

The hanger-like building to the right of the Laboratory is the Plant Growth Facility, built in 2004. It provides state-of-the-art controlled environment capabilities, so one could imagine plenty of air conditioning during the heat wave.