Germany’s heat record-setting
weather station in Lingen
was producing readings
were 2 to 3°C hotter than
all surrounding stations.
The German DWD weather
service now admits the station
has problems, and that they will
be moving it to a better location.
Meaning last year’s all-time
record high temperature from
that station is now in question.
Last summer
the Lingen station,
located in n
orthwest Germany
near the Dutch border,
smashed the country’s
all-time record high when
the ‘mercury’ rose to a
scorching 42.6°C during
a late July heat wave.
The previous
all-time high
for Germany
was only 40.3°C.
Germany's DWD
has now reversed,
and realized that
something may be
very wrong with the
Lingen station after all,
and so will relocate it
and re-examine
its recorded data.
The station in Lingen is
located in a depression,
and is now surrounded
by trees, which means
the air around it gets
stuck in place,
and so heats up.
The decision to stop
using data from the
current Lingen station,
and to relocate it,
represents a rare
position reversal
by the DWD.
Last year
the DWD
claimed
the station
conditions had
“no serious influence
on the temperature
measurements”
and therefore
“did not contradict
the WMO standards.”
The DWD now acknowledges
the station has siting issues,
and its data are suspicious,
after a number of meteorologists
criticized the station’s poor siting
last year.
Government bureaucrat
"experts" have always had
difficulties admitting problems.