Tag: Sardinia

Sardinia Temperature Record Set In Middle of Undergrowth, And Yards From Road

You will recall how the media gleefully announced a new July record temperature for Europe this week, even though it had not even been validated by the WMO.

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

Weather News – Ticker (weatherandradar.co.uk)

You will recall how the media gleefully announced a new July record temperature for Europe this week, even though it had not even been validated by the WMO.

As Italian expert, Robin Monotti, pointed out immediately, the weather station at Jerzu was not an officially recognised climate station.

Excellent detective work by Tim Daw has revealed the actual location of the Jerzu station, and as I surmised it is poorly sited and maintained.

There are three weather stations in and around Jerzu, but the one in question is Jerzu RU, indicated below – note the 48.2C reading on 23rd:

Dati meteo Sardegna – ultimi 7 giorni | Rete meteo ARPAS – 2016-2022 (arcgis.com)

Google maps place it here:

Sardinien – Google Maps

And zooming in:

Google Earth

As can be seen, the equipment is within a few yards of the road. Worse still, the whole compound is overgrown with bush.

Recall what the WMO say about the siting of thermometers:

https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=11612

Clearly Jerzu fails Class 3 on two counts:

1) Its proximity to the road

2) Vegetation >25cm.

At best, it can only be classified as Class 4 (out of total of 5 Classes); this means that temperatures could be artificially inflated by as much as 2C because of poor siting.

This obviously precludes any possibility of the “record” Jerzu being officially recognised, or at least it would with any reputable scientific organisation, which the WMO most certainly is not.

But, of course, the fake record claim has already gone round the world, which has always been the objective of our corrupt media.

It is worth pointing out that there are three other stations listed by the Italian agency. The max temperatures of these were 42.10C, 46.57C and 47.21C. (If you click on the link, and then click on the coloured logo, it brings up the daily table. All of these are well below the 48.2C at Jerzu RU, even though they are only a few miles apart:

Dati meteo Sardegna – ultimi 7 giorni | Rete meteo ARPAS – 2016-2022 (arcgis.com)

There are many hundreds of weather stations like this in countries like Italy – poorly sited, poorly maintained and with no official long term data. Jerzu is a classic example – was there a thermometer there prior to the installation of this automatic one? It seems highly unlikely, as who would have trudged out in the heat to read it every day?

And with this proliferation of stations, there are bound to be some in particularly hot spots, just waiting for a record to be claimed.

For any climatological record temperature to be validated, the site should not only be properly sited and maintained; but there should also be at least 100 years of data, to ensure we are comparing like with like.

Record Breaking Heatwave In Europe?

As we have seen, Rome never got above 41.8C at the most. As for Madrid, temperatures only reached 39C, nothing out of the ordinary at all for the nation’s capital

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/18/europe-heatwave-rome-temperature-record-covid-protocols/

Most of the so-called reporting of the European heatwave seems to have centred around of temperature forecasts, rather than actual ones, along with claims of “records” and images of people enjoying the sun. Factual reporting appears to have taken a holiday!

Take the Telegraph article above, published on 18th July. It begins:

Rome was among several European regions to breach temperature records on Tuesday as a Covid-style protocols were rolled out across Italy to protect its hospitals from the unprecedented heatwave.A new record was set in the Italian capital when the local weather agency recorded highs of 41.8C (107.2F), beating the previous record set in June last year by 1C.The European Space Agency said thermometers could tip 48C in Sardinia and Sicily, while the temperatures in Rome and Madrid could both reach the mid to high-40Cs.In drought-stricken Spain, temperatures were set to reach highs of 44C in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands while the country is in the final throes of an election campaign before Sunday’s vote.

Let’s examine some of these claims more closely:

A new record was set in the Italian capital when the local weather agency recorded highs of 41.8C (107.2F), beating the previous record set in June last year by 1C.

For a start, the previous record was not 40.8C, as implied. A temperature of 42.0C was recorded at the Ponte di Nona in 2005

https://www.ecad.eu/indicesextremes/customquerytimeseriesplots.php

As for this week, the temperature at Rome’s Urbe Airport only reached 40C:

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/italy/rome/historic

thermometers could tip 48C in Sardinia and Sicily

And pigs might fly!

Alghero, which is on the north coast of Sardinia, only hit 40C, a long way short of its record high of 41.8C, set in 1983.

There are of course places further south in Sardinia which would naturally be much hotter, but there is no evidence that any of these were hotter this week than in the past. The BBC is particularly good at finding some obscure little village with a high temperature, without offering any historical perspective to compare it with.

And Sicily? Catania, the island’s biggest city, hit 39C on Wednesday. The record there is 46.7C, set in 1962.

.https://climexp.knmi.nl/ecatmax.cgi?id=someone@somewhere&WMO=2103&STATION=CATANIA/SIGONELLA&extraargs=

temperatures in Rome and Madrid could both reach the mid to high-40Cs.

As we have seen, Rome never got above 41.8C at the most.

As for Madrid, temperatures only reached 39C, nothing out of the ordinary at all for the nation’s capital:

In drought-stricken Spain, temperatures were set to reach highs of 44C in Catalonia

This is probably the most absurd forecast of the lot, as temperatures in Barcelona did not get above 30C!

It was hot this week in much of Europe, very hot in places.

But I have found no evidence that the heatwave was in any way unprecedented, never mind the inferno suggested.

CORRECTION

The temperature graph used for Madrid was actually Malaga! I have now replaced with the correct graph.

I have also included the KNMI chart for Catania, which has a longer data record