Cavendish Addendum – Met Office “taking the Micky”

I reviewed this site last year following the Met Office’s claims of national highs back then. As it is obviously silly season for Met Office regular record claims, they have chosen to wheel out (or tractor or combine harvester) Cavendish regularly again. Paul Homewood over at the excellent “Not a Lot of People Know That” website highlighted this site figures for the 6th August, a record feat which it repeated almost on demand 2 days later.

The Weatherobs website posts live hourly readings from most Met Office automatic weather stations including Cavendish and its 26.9°C reading from a Class 4 domestic back garden site adjacent to a field where motorised agricultural vehicles regularly turn. Firstly a locator map centred on Cavendish just north west of Sudbury.

To the east is Wattisham (Class 2) which hourly peaked at just 25.7°C i.e. 1.2°C lower.

To the south west is Andrewsfield (Class 2) which hourly peaked at 25.4°C i.e 1.5°C lower.

To the north, north west is Brooms Barn (Class 3 and run by Rothamsted Research) which recorded an hourly maximum of 25.2°C i.e. 1.7°C lower.

Further comparisons reveal Charsfield (class 3) at 24.6°C i.e 2.3°C lower. Even the aviation site (non CIMO assessed) at Stansted Airport only managed 25.0°C.

Despite all the very, very strong indications that the Cavendish PRT has responded to transient and unnatural extraneous heat sources (pesky tractors, combine harvesters and agricultural machinery etc) and is in an unsatisfactory back garden site anyway, the Met Office misinformation machine must continue its industrial grade gaslighting.

As a reminder, this is an aerial image locating the site – there was a gentle west south westerly breeze at the time. A back garden suntrap in Peacocks Close, Cavendish.