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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Germany’s Record Temperature Allowed To Stand

There was controversy,
over Germany’s all-time 
record high temperature, 
recorded last year 
in North Germany, 
near the Dutch border.

Last year, on July 25th, 
the Lingen thermometer 
reached 42.6°C., versus
the old German
record of 40.3°C. 

Independent 
meteorologists 
said the readings 
needed to be 
thrown out
because the
station data 
were corrupted 
by serious siting 
issues. 

The Lingen 
weather station 
is located 
in a depression 
in the earth, 
near a parking lot, 
and shielded 
by trees from 
the wind, creating 
ideal conditions
for trapping heat.

Comparisons to nearby 
stations show huge 
differences !

Surrounding stations 
do not even come close 
to the record reading 
in Lingen. 

Consider the six
nearby stations, 
over the five day period,
July 23 – July 27, 2019:

-- On every single day,
Lingen was hotter 
than its neighbors
by +3 to +4 degrees C. !


   Recently:
On May 20th, 2020,
the Lingen station 
had  23.6 degrees. 

All neighboring stations
were below 20 degrees C.


On May 10, 2020, 
the Lingen station
was 27.7 degrees C.,
while neighboring 
stations were barely 
over 24 degrees.


German meteorologist 
Dominik Jung:
“massively doubts the results 
of the station in Lingen” 
           and that 
“it is dubious that the DWD allows 
such a weather station at all.”

Jung adds: 
“The station should be moved.”


Meteorologist 
Dr. Karsten Brandt 
of donnerwetter.de:
“The station in Lingen 
has the problem that it is 
located in a depression, 
which heats up 
the temperatures. 

This is definitely not 
the warmest place 
in Germany.”


Germany’s DWD 
National Weather Service, 
which operates the station, 
and loves to report
a new heat record,
ignored the siting
issues and plans 
to accept the Lingen 
readings, claiming 
them to be of good 
scientific quality.

If it was a cold 
weather record,
you can be 
confident the 
reading would 
have been 
rejected due to
the poor siting !



The U.S. answer
   to bad siting:
A relatively new 
( 2005 ) network
of rural temperature 
stations located
away from likely
economic growth 
and land use changes:
    “In January 2005, NOAA began recording temperatures at its newly built U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN). USCRN includes 114 pristinely maintained temperature stations spaced relatively uniformly across the lower 48 states. NOAA selected locations that were far away from urban and land-development impacts that might artificially taint temperature readings.”

    “The USCRN has eliminated the need to rely on, and adjust the data from, outdated temperature stations. Strikingly, as shown in the graph below, USCRN temperature stations show no warming since 2005 when the network went online. If anything, U.S. temperatures are now slightly cooler than they were 14 years ago”

    “The U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) was established to give the most accurate temperature readings compared to the old Cooperative Observer Network (COOP) which suffers from urban encroachment, siting problems, and a multitude of human induced inhomgeneities such as station moves, incomplete data, closed stations, and runway condition stations at airports that were never designed to report climate data”