By Paul Homewood
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/weather-extremes
While that high quality site of Heathrow coincidentally records yet another daily high, let’s turn our attention to Hull East Park, a Class 5 junk site which also features up there with Heathrow as a regular on the Daily High list.
Hull East is one of two official Met Office sites; the other is Leconfield, just eight miles away and a Class 3 site:
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Temperatures at Leconfield reached 23C yesterday, which is 0.9C lower than at Hull:
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Ray Sanders has been looking closely at Hull East lately and reckons it frequently reads a couple of degrees higher than a University site nearby.
This is little wonder, when we see where where the weather station is actually sited:
Hull East Park is actually an Animal Education Centre, in effect s small zoo. This is the Google view:
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One reader has helped out by paying a visit and taken some pictures. It turns out that what appear to be solar panels just a few years to the north is actually an animal enclosure, roofed in mesh:
It is easy to imagine how much heat comes from these cages, both off the animals concerned and the straw in them.
The Stevenson Screen is extremely close to a hedge, creating a nice suntrap. It is also close to a paved area and building:
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You can also make out a van on the other side of the hedge. The van is pictured below, with the screen just on the other side of the hedge next to those pallets:
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It is hard to think of a worse place to place a thermometer, unless you count the tarmac at Heathrow!
The weather station only opened in 2011, so the average temperature for that part of the country has been artificially inflated since then by this frankly awful site.
Multiply this by the dozens of other utterly unacceptable sites recently opened, and the same can be said of the temperatures of the country as a whole.
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