.... following on from this (and other, earlier) discussion about
roof-top sites, with London being the most notorious, would there be
having any merit in having the tag "roof" or "rooftop" 'hard-wired' into
the name of the reporting station?

Thus, Cardiff (WMO= 03717) becomes "Cardiff MO Roof" or perhaps "Cardiff
rooftop (MO) or somesuch.

These sites have such peculiar behaviour, never mind the 'local'
influence (e.g. air-conditioning stacks, hard-standing surfaces,
significant elevation above above street-level etc.) and are creeping
into the network like a cancer, that some routine distinction could
usefully be made.

Martin.


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