By Paul Homewood
Radcliffe Meteorological Station
To my surprise, even the weather station at Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford University appears on the Met Office’s station lists as a next to junk Class 4.
Radcliffe, of course, has long been regarded as a high quality site, despite the fact that it has been gradually surrounded by urban heat island effect over the years since it was founded in 1767:
It is worth recalling the WMO classifications:
Radcliffe is Class 4, because it is within 10 m of an artificial heat source, which would be that path and probably the wall as well.
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March 3, 2024 at 07:45AM
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