{"id":402989,"date":"2025-09-18T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=402989"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:45:10","slug":"dundreggan-rewilding-centre-dcnn0559-is-this-the-met-office-up-to-the-same-old-if-so-action-should-be-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=402989","title":{"rendered":"Dundreggan Rewilding Centre DCNN0559 \u2013 Is this the Met Office up to the same old? If so action should be\u00a0taken."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ray Sanders<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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15th September 2025 marked the fifth time this year that Dundreggan Rewilding Centre weather station recorded the regional highest temperature. That, in itself, is not especially improbable until you discover that the site has only been recording temperatures since 23rd May 2025. Given that the adopted\u00a0CIMO<\/a>\u00a0regulations are now well over a decade old, the Met Office should reasonably be expected to be installing good quality sites \u2013 they are not. This is a preliminary review similar to that of\u00a0Whitesands<\/a>\u00a0to be followed up with\u00a0further details\u00a0<\/a>when available to answer previously raised questions and possibly take legal action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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57.19126\u00a0-4.76579 Met Office CIMO Assessed Class 4 installed 23\/5\/2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dundreggan automatic weather station is only rated CIMO Class 4 despite being the most recently installed Met Office site. The Met Office has chosen to open yet another site that is officially \u2013 \u201cClass 4 (additional estimated uncertainty added by siting up to 2 \u00b0C<\/strong>)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The obvious question is, why within a site extending to over 10,000 acres could the Met Office not find a Class 1 location? Well almost certainly because they probably did not want to. The red kite mark in the headline image marks the \u201cWGS84<\/a>\u201d coordinates supplied by the Met Office themselves. These are more commonly referred to as GPS (Global Positioning System) and are accurate to within at worst a metre. Although there are, as yet, not up to date maps or images including the Stevenson Screen this is a close-up aerial image of where the screen almost certainly is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, those black rectangles are solar photovoltaic panels<\/strong>. Google maps automatically orient north to top so all northerly wind is sheltered by the tree line. Despite 10,000 acres of open \u201cRewilding\u201d site the Met Office managed to find the only car park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this is correct, as I strongly suspect it is, then this is a deliberate and blatant action on the part of the Met Office to produce intentionally corrupted data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anyone can provide corroborating (or refuting) information or imagery I would be extremely grateful. If this really is the situation then there are potential grounds to take legal action against the Met Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

15th September 2025 marked the fifth time this year that Dundreggan Rewilding Centre weather station recorded the regional highest temperature. 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