Vidcapper wrote:

On 07/07/2015 15:01, Scott W wrote:

Puts to bed my criticisms from last week

http://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2015/07...ng-a-heatwave/


I wonder whereabouts on the airport the weather station is actually located?
Yes, I could check Google Maps, but the area is so large, it'd be a
needle-in-a-haystck search.


The meteorological instrument enclosure is on the north side of the airport.
It's about 130 metres north of the edge of the northern runway and about 20
metres south of the northern perimeter road. It is about 180 metres ESE of the
northern entrance to the tunnel at the south end of the M4 spur. Co-ordinates
are 51°28'45"N 0°27'2"W. It's probably broadly representative of the airport
environment but if the area was farmland rather than an airport no doubt the
temperatures would be somewhat different at times. Not only are there areas of
airport concrete in the vicinity there are also very large expanses of car park
nearby.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org