"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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"Col" wrote in message
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It's part of a secondary network of AWSs called the CDL
(Campbell Data Logger) network run by the Met Office to
which I do not have access. If I remember rightly, and
I'm happy to be corrected, the Bolton site is on the southern
fringe of the town (Great Lever? Lever Edge?) and may
well be at a municipal depot. On that basis it may well be
above concrete or asphalt rather than grass. It may also be
that the temperature sensor is in one of those micro-screens
which over-read in comparison with a normal screen by
2-3 degC in calm sunny weather. I am told it recorded
30.6°C on Monday, but I would certainly not regard the
site as standard until advised otherwise (and shown photo-
graphs because these days I don't trust much of the advice
I'm given).

Great Lever/Lever Edge are both areas on the southern side of
Bolton. so it could be either. Not sure what you mean by a 'municipal
depot', bus garage/waste disposal site?
It's the opposite side of town from me so I'd need more info
if I was seriously to go and find it.

30.6C sounds more than a little excessive to me. I worry that
*I* sometimes overead but sounds way too high.
I hopeBolton isn't to become the new Barbourne

Col
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