Met Office’s “Record Temperatures” All Come From Junk Sites

By Paul Homewood

Just to follow up on Chris Morrison’s article:

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.

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I have checked the WMO classifications for all the sites highlighted:

So all are Class 4s and 5s, except for Heathrow, which certainly should not be a Class 3 (WMO do not take into account for the wider heating effect of airports, only the immediate environment. As we know the Met Office have already admitted that Heathrow temperatures are inflated as much as Central London ones are by artificial warming, which would put it into Class 5).

Surely it is now beyond doubt that the predominance of junk sites that make up most of the Met Office’s station network has significantly increased the average UK temperatures calculated by them above the true underlying ones.