I'm busy this week
writing my bi-monthly economics newsletter
for subscribers, so will post excellent links here,
rather than an original article:
Review of US weather stations,
with few meeting US siting
standards -- the pictures tell
you about the low quality of data
likely in the nation that supposedly
has the BEST network of weather
stations in the world:
http://www.surfacestations.org/
The worst US weather stations (pictures):
http://www.surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm
related white paper:
https://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/r-367.pdf