57.25689 -3.37894 No Met Office CIMO Assessment known. Installed 7/3/2025
Tomintoul is the highest village in the Scottish Highlands but curiously not the highest in Scotland – Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway is considerably higher. The area is noted for its distilleries which dominate the village. Being denoted “Number 6” suggests a long history of weather stations but that is quite wrong and the site is indeed very new.
So new is this site that I have been unable to find temperature records at all not only for Number 6 but similarly none at all for numbers 1 to 5 either. In fact records show they have only ever housed rain gauges indicated by “DR” – Daily Rain.
Number 6, however, is now being shown on the list of Synoptic and Climate stations as a fully reporting manual active site.
There are no streetview recent images to show the new site though this is not the main point of note here, rather a curious issue which comes from Wikipedia.
For such a very small village to have its own Wikipedia dedicated climate listing is incredibly unusual. The text is even more illuminating. {my bold},
“Tomintoul has an oceanic climate (Cfb), bordering on subpolar oceanic (Cfc). Since March 2025, Tomintoul has an official MetOffice weather station. Manual readings are sent to the Met-Office on a daily basis. The temperature values below are simulated and not taken from this weather station.[26][27] “
What? Is even Wikipedia now pointing out that Met office claims from their Location specific Long Term Climate Averages are in fact “simulated”
Given the obvious point that Tomintoul has no published weather data other than rainfall readings it does rather follow that there can be no real climate readings as in the average of weather over a 30 year period. The definition of simulated being:
What is so insidious here is that Met Office fabricated/simulated non-data is now being taken for hard fact. Had the Wikipedia author not opted to include the “caveat” that data was simulated and omitted the station start date, nobody reading would likely have been any wiser. Numbers likely formulated from the likes of nearby summits and ski stations would simply be assumed to be correct on the basis of appeal from authority. The Met Office is, albeit indirectly, responsible for promoting complete fabrication as fact.
When data from Tomintoul 6 eventually becomes available I will examine both the numbers and the site. However, I suggest this site is already performing its function of producing a grossly inaccurate perception of reality.
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August 26, 2025 at 03:41AM
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