Ken Cook wrote:
Hi, Tony

This has concerned me for some years now. The Met O is very selective
with the obs for highest / lowest etc and needs to be in many cases.
There are lots of badly sited weather stations with inaccurate
instruments whose obs are obviously wrong (and some official ones also
btw!). However, there are many accurate sites (Graham's Penzance site
is a COL grade A) and lots of Met O climate sites who publish on the
web but are not included in the Health Resort type 18Z returns. Colin
Youngs does a great job with that and when he returns will continue to
do so, I'm sure.

My sites in Copley have been known to "beat" the p.407 readings on many
occasions but I really don't know how the Met O would collate all the
hundreds of climate sites in time for publication.

Best wishes,

Ken
Copley 253metres asl, nr Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham
http://copley.mysite.orange.co.uk

Further thoughts,

I don't think any County Durham, Teeside or Tyne-and-Wear site, and
there are only a few of them anyway, is on the p.407 list! A large
population should be represented here!
According to this morning's news, County Durham is the 4th most
tranquil county in England to live after Northumberland, Cumbria and
North Yorkshire. Perhaps the Met O thinks the weather is tranquil also!

I have offered my obs to fill in the obvious large gap btw.

Ken
Copley