Met Office porkies

[zoidberg]

Over 100 of them....

Read all about it.

You couldn't make it up - but they do!

 

[lustyd]

If true there are some pretty serious questions for the Met Office to answer.

I'd hope there's more to it though. The article is not on what I'd consider a well balanced website. It's obvious that they need to interpolate data, that's what they do when modelling weather. The question is how that interpolated data is being used.

 

[Baddox]

Have you been raiding Viago's websites?

 

[finestgreen]

If only the met office said something like this on the webpage that's being "investigated":

Locations displayed in this map may not be those from which observations are made. Data will be displayed from the closest available climate station, which may be a short distance from the chosen location. We are working to improve the visualisation of data as part of this map.

Where stations are currently closed in this dataset, well-correlated observations from other nearby stations are used to help inform latest long-term average figures in order to preserve the long-term usability of the data. Similar peer-reviewed scientific methods are used by meteorological organisations around the world to maintain the continuity of long-term datasets.

 

[Gustywinds]

If only the met office said something like this on the webpage that's being "investigated":

Conspiracy sites gotta promote conspiracies

 

[Poignard]

Conspiracy sites gotta promote conspiracies

The Daily Sceptic - Wikipedia

 

[Gustywinds]

The Daily Sceptic - Wikipedia

I am well aware of the trash the Septic promotes