55.96662 -3.21220 Met Office assessed CIMO Class 4 Installed 1/1/1926….or sometime in 2018
There are numerous Met Office sites in Botanical Gardens and many are longstanding. This should surprise nobody, all agricultural sites need to keep a watchful eye on the weather – but only for the benefit of their immediate very close locality. By definition they represent artificial micro climates and quite deliberately do not represent natural surroundings. They are subject to frequent change with the crops taking priority over weather readings. They also have a tendency to be moved around a lot.
” The weather has been recorded in the garden for many years. We have been an official weather station for the Met Office since 1956, with automated data collection since 2010. In 2018 the weather station was moved from the glasshouse lawn to a new location in the Demonstration Garden, to facilitate the construction of the Edinburgh Biomes.“
https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/rbge-weather-station/
Botanical Garden sites regularly appear on the Met Office’s Daily Weather Extremes regional postings (when they knock aviation sites off their dominance!) as this from 22/8/2024
So what to make of their acceptability or otherwise for natural climate weather reporting? My view is unequivocal – deliberately modified environments should never be used for climate recording purposes. From Wikipedia “The shelter provided by enclosing walls can raise the ambient temperature within a garden by several degrees, ”
My personal basic research involved a pleasant day out at the Lost Gardens of Heligan. A sweater worn prior to entry was rapidly removed inside the walled gardens to be equally rapidly put back on when leaving!
Any views on justifying their inclusion in the temperature records? Am I overstating the problem or is it not a problem at all? For me they should be consigned to Room 101.
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August 28, 2024 at 03:49AM
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