Ray Sanders #418
Ray Sanders updates his Surface Stations project to classify all 385 UK Met Office weather stations using WMO siting classes, claiming 88% are class 3–5 and 112 meet no regulations, including many in walled or private gardens and car parks. He argues poor siting, degraded maintenance after automation, and rapid platinum resistance thermometers in Stevenson screens create spikes and non-comparable records versus older liquid-in-glass methods. He alleges rounding/conversion issues, data from non-existent “climate averages” sites, refusals under FOI, and deletion of queried webpages. He presents analyses of stable long-term records at Wye and effects from a solar farm at RAF Lyneham, and plans more reconstructions with helpers.
00:00 Project Update Intro
01:49 WMO Siting Classes Explained
03:23 Most Stations Fail Standards
05:54 Walled Gardens Hotspots
11:55 Car Parks and Heat Sources
13:58 Thermometers and Response Time
18:27 Stevenson Screen Meets PRT
20:36 Sampling Rates and Spikes
24:45 Fahrenheit to Celsius Rounding
28:00 Maintenance and Automation Decay
32:30 Phantom Stations and FOI Fight
37:59 Allies and Data Deletions
42:16 Searching for Good Stations
42:30 Best Station Locations
43:39 Wye Data Deep Dive
44:59 Anomalies And Baselines
46:36 Manual Records Reveal 1930s
50:00 Solar Farm Heat Jump
51:19 Dyce Vs Craibstone
55:06 Met Office Classification Errors
59:53 Questionable Data Practices
01:02:21 US Climate Reference Network
01:07:38 Why He Started The Crusade
01:13:53 Focus On Great Britain
01:14:51 Thanks And Wrap Up
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