Coningsbys Record Temperature Should Be Struck Off Due To Poor Siting

By Paul Homewood

h/t Ray Sanders

https://www.google.com/maps/place/RAF+Coningsby/@53.0938597,-0.1733297,98m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m17!1m10!3m9!1s0x4878724361cba713:0x17ec5c5f02eb395d!2sRAF+Coningsby!8m2!3d53.0991209!4d-0.1701335!10e5!14m1!1BCgIgARICCAI!16zL20vMDJ2cWNx!3m5!1s0x4878724361cba713:0x17ec5c5f02eb395d!8m2!3d53.0991209!4d-0.1701335!16zL20vMDJ2cWNx?entry=ttu

Ray has been doing a bit of sleuthing into the siting of the temperature station at RAF Coningsby, where the record UK temperature of 40.3C was set last year.

As the arrow indicates, close to the runway, a building and two seemingly concrete adjacent areas.

Looking at the Google scale, the runway is about 20m away, and those two areas to the left and right are closer still.

WMO rules are quite clear. Class 1 sites must be at least 100m away from concrete surfaces, and even Class 2 ones must be 30m away, which seems to rule out Coningsby. It only qualifies as a poor quality Class 3 site, which the WMO say may overstate temperatures by 1C.

This clearly means that the so-called record of 40.3C should not have been accepted by the Met Office.