re: #419 bobbuck

The weather stations needed scrutiny. Period. Here are three pictures of my local station (47012). It’s between an air conditioned building, another structure (well pump, I think), beside pavement, and shaded. Good grief! If they take out the “bad” sites and the “good” sites still match up, they’ve got some serious data problems. They might be normalizing to their own errors.

My hypothesis on why the data still matched is that urbanization is affecting the data both small and large scale. I don’t disagree the varying situations with the stations should be reviewed, and updates/corrections made to stations found wanting. I would suggest stimulus money, but that would likely cause head explosions.