Yeah...but it seems like we're all on the downward trend as of that report. There was another 37C sandwiched between 36s, but it was probably another 98F rather than 99F.
Yeah...I think we agree on that. The rapid shifts are a bigger problem than the amount of error itself.
Has anyone gotten a peek at the ASOS at Logan lately? Did they put black mulch around it?
I still think it’s home stations getting better. Many have fan aspiration now and live in the countryside with a lot more shade and evapotranspirational cooling. 15 years ago the mesos were the torch spots... now it’s the airport sites.
And oh yeah...looks like the observer has no temp or dewpoint data so they're just submitting it as 0C/0C. I can't wait for July lows of 32F at Naples to go into the climate record. lolol
I noticed APF got fried the other day too after a TSRA. Now they have daytime manned obs and they're putting ASOS OTS at the end of them. I have no idea what OTS means in this instance, but I prefer to think the lightning zapped it out to sea.
And at some point we may have to just say some of the readings are fine. The MADIS QC jumps could also be changes in the processing or new meso stations coming online. I mean we’ve been tossing ASOS sites left and right lately.
It’s hard to compare temps miles away with scattered clouds and good mixing. It’s not like there’s a steady rise and then fall during the day. You can get 2-3F swings per minute with ASOS probes because of the aspiration and the responsiveness. That’s why they get averaged every 5 mins. Maybe it’s a hair high...idk. But I would guess the instrumentation is fine and that it would be a physical change of the land. Like CON dumping rocks around the ASOS.
Good blog post explaining the 5min data vs hourly metar discrepancies.
https://blog.synopticlabs.org/blog/2016/08/29/hf-metars.html
Anyway...we’re about maxed out up here. Time for fall.