The Met Office are trying to convince us that it was well warm this spring despite folk resorting to hot water bottles and bobble hats, so I took a look at HadCET mean temperatures 1659-2024
"...the first question that members of the public should throw at them is: how many stations were operative in 1884?" When all of your questions are answered, someone needs to put their hand up in the back of the room and ask, "How many of those remaining long-lived stations have had vast puddles of asphalt laid next to them or had greenhouses erected beside them with exhaust fans blowing on the S-box?"
Thanks for this work. It strikes me as a good bake to look at a consistent set of sensors that span the full time range, as you have done before. Curiosities... Have means of measuring temperature changed since Cromwell's time? What do we think the accuracy (+/-) was back in that time, and how did accuracy change from then until now? One also might wonder about calibration. How might this be accounted if it rises to a level of concern. BTW, I had to look up "tetchy". I hope the following doesn't engender a tetchy feeling, but isn't "anecdotal" and/or "YMMV" the usual response to a challenge based on personal experience?
I'll be going back to the famous five in the next article whose records stretch 1900 - 2024 without holes to see how spring looks then. 1659 is fun, though!
"...the first question that members of the public should throw at them is: how many stations were operative in 1884?" When all of your questions are answered, someone needs to put their hand up in the back of the room and ask, "How many of those remaining long-lived stations have had vast puddles of asphalt laid next to them or had greenhouses erected beside them with exhaust fans blowing on the S-box?"
Nail. Head. Hit.
Thanks for this work. It strikes me as a good bake to look at a consistent set of sensors that span the full time range, as you have done before. Curiosities... Have means of measuring temperature changed since Cromwell's time? What do we think the accuracy (+/-) was back in that time, and how did accuracy change from then until now? One also might wonder about calibration. How might this be accounted if it rises to a level of concern. BTW, I had to look up "tetchy". I hope the following doesn't engender a tetchy feeling, but isn't "anecdotal" and/or "YMMV" the usual response to a challenge based on personal experience?
I'll be going back to the famous five in the next article whose records stretch 1900 - 2024 without holes to see how spring looks then. 1659 is fun, though!
devilishly interesting. You should do a bake of Night and Day and see how much jam can leak from the alarmist donut!
As it so happens I'm downloading that data as I type!