Jim Backus wrote:
Many of you post monthly data including 1971 to 2000 eLTA data.

Is this simply the nearest weather station on the Met Office web site,
or is there another source for this?

Where I live in NW Essex there is no nearby weather station. The four
nearest seem to be Cambridge, Wattisham, Greewich and Rothamsted. I'm
tempted to do some sort of geographical averaging but would like
advice from the group.

TIA

Jim

Jim, many of us are members of C.O.L. (Climatalogical Observers Link)
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/col.html
and have been keeping records for many years (1977 I go back to), C.O.L.
has published and made any necessary adjustments for the missing years
(1971-1977) and this is the data sets that are used to give the eLTA
differences. It is difficult to compare with even any nearby stations,
certainly for rainfall, as there can be many local variations which may
be misleading if comparing with your own data.

If you have rainfall data going back 30 years you don't have a problem,
how far does your dataset go back?

Also the published C.O.L. data can be purchased which looking from my
list includes locations such as:

Loughton, Rettenden, Braintree, Little Waltham, Galleywood x2 , Earls
Colne, Great Maplestead (precipitation only), Benfleet, Colchester x2,
Epping, Royston, Bedford, Watford, Ricjmansworth, Borhamwood, Great
Gaddesden, Luton, Beccles, Wattisham, Mildenhall and Lowestoft to name a
few.

Regards
--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net