Bad Weather Stations
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Exposing (pun intended) the many official weather stations that report falsely high temperatures due to poor siting conditions. General weather & climate posts.
Ireland
Joined December 2023
Here are the details of the station in question.
🌡A new Japanese temperature "record" of 41.8 °C has just been set along a driveway between buildings at a water treatment plant in Isesaki (伊勢崎), Gunma prefecture. 🤦♂️ Another Bad Weather Station with a very recent change. Between 2021 and 2024, a building was built just a
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It's the same story as the Isesaki station that set the new national record of 41.8 °C yesterday. It, too, has had a building constructed right next to the station in the past couple of years. 🙄.
🌡A new Japanese temperature "record" of 41.8 °C has just been set along a driveway between buildings at a water treatment plant in Isesaki (伊勢崎), Gunma prefecture. 🤦♂️ Another Bad Weather Station with a very recent change. Between 2021 and 2024, a building was built just a
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🌡41.4 °C at Shizuoka (静岡), Japan today, a new station record. Of course, there is a reason for this; a large building has been constructed right beside the station in the past two years. 🙄. Below are the Google Earth aerial images of the station since 2021. The large green
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The 2024-25 NW Europe Group Atlantic storm season stats so far.
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#StormFloris has been filling over Norway today. As the 2024-25 season goes, it's pretty average, but very strong for an August storm.
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Why it's important to proofread before clicking Publish. Not even a Japanese station could reach 4188 °C.
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972 hPa was recorded at Osaberg Platform off the coast of Norway earlier this morning as the centre of #StormFloris passed through. You can see the marked dip in windspeed at the time.
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🌡A new Japanese temperature "record" of 41.8 °C has just been set along a driveway between buildings at a water treatment plant in Isesaki (伊勢崎), Gunma prefecture. 🤦♂️ Another Bad Weather Station with a very recent change. Between 2021 and 2024, a building was built just a
【速報】伊勢崎で41.6℃.今日8月5日(火)14時10分すぎ、群馬県伊勢崎市のアメダス伊勢崎で、最高気温41.6℃を観測しました。. 先週30日(水)に記録されていた、兵庫県の柏原(かいばら)の41.2℃を上回り、日本国内の歴代最高気温を更新しました。.
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🌡Another day, another heat record in Japan at another Bad Weather Station. 41.2 °C at Kiryū (桐生) AMeDAS station, Gunma prefecture, its hottest "ever". Now look at the station 🤦♂️. In an enclosed area on the side of the road, the JMA-95 temperature sensor sits above what looks
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RT @RoostWeather: #StormFloris Strongest #wind gusts (>=40mph) so far (04/08 05Z-04/08 18Z) from the 03xxx SYNOP sites (<300m altitude). T….
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Satellite-derived windfield of #StormFloris at various times today (scan time along bottom of map). . Some 60-knot vectors showing up east of Scotland this evening.
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Here's a comparison of #StormFloris' pressure values with the other storms of this 2024-25 season (up to 18Z Monday). A 28-hPa/24 hr pressure drop is around average for this season; more than Conall and Darragh, but less than Ashley, Bert and Éowyn. In for a cameo appearance
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A bonnie gale's been a blowin' up in wee Inverness airport, gusting to 65 knots (75 mph | 120 km/h). #StormFloris
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Winds now strong @TREAirport (Tiree Airport), Scotland. Recent gust of 58 knots (67 mph | 107 km/h). #StormFloris
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RT @philklotzbach: Tropical Storm #Dexter has formed off of the North Carolina coast - the 4th Atlantic named storm of the 2025 #hurricane….
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Eurocontrol's tactical weather assessment for tomorrow. Scotland looking interesting. #StormFloris
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A lot of water is fueling #StormFloris. Latest satellite measurements of condensed water show over 3 kg/m² (looking down through the atmosphere). That's 3000 tonnes per km².
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