{"id":408154,"date":"2025-10-14T14:05:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=408154"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:05:29","slug":"newton-rigg-revisited-why-not-deleted-the-next-foi-that-cannot-be-ruled-vexatious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=408154","title":{"rendered":"Newton Rigg Revisited \u2013 Why not deleted? The next FOI that cannot be ruled \u201cVexatious.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"A<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0By\u00a0Ray Sanders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Map<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In my original review of Newton Rigg <\/a>with its \u201ccreative accounting\u201d I made the following comment. \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnother aspect I also took the Met Office to task with was their \u201cHistoric Stations<\/a>\u201d page and demonstrated how misleading it was notably with its portrayal of a long closed site at Lowestoft<\/a>. I similarly expected changes to this web page especially as I have extensively contested the data presentation such as at Braemar<\/a> and Southampton<\/a> amongst others. However, it seems the Met office are not only willing to continue with this web page\u2019s charade of being actually factual but also to extend elements of this misrepresentation throughout their systems.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office subsequently and covertly deleted the \u201cvisibility\u201d of data post site closure at Lowestoft,<\/a> Nairn<\/a>, and Paisley<\/a> thus starting the collapsing of the house of cards. Newton Rigg\u2019s data, however, still remains and is continuing to be fabricated with temperatures, rainfall, frost days and precipitation being recently added for September 2025. This retention warranted further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to ensure the data is captured, below is all the suitably asterisked fabricated data since station closure. {The notation of \u201cprovisional\u201d for the most recent fabricated data takes irony to new levels<\/em>}<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"A<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

To further ensure clarity, below is the final \u201cend data\u201d marking the demise of Newton Rigg\u2019s archived temperature recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Spreadsheet<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ever since 19th July 2021 all data for Newton Rigg is fabricated data \u2013 but that is actually nothing new for Newton Rigg at all. Despite the Historic Station Data showing a continuous record from 1959 there are in fact whole years when no\u00a0archived data\u00a0<\/a>whatsoever was being recorded as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"List<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As well as there being precisely ZERO<\/strong> readings for 1987, the surrounding years were remarkably sparse for data. The successful days of actually taking any temperature readings were as follows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985 \u2013 212 days, 1986 \u2013 77 days, 1987 \u2013 ZERO, 1988 \u2013 124 days, 1989 \u2013 233 days.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality the observation\u2019s standard of this site was very poor indeed particularly so for the generally much better 20th century era. Looking at the full historic data record shows literally over a hundred monthly estimated readings. Even going back prior to the Historic quoted record period, in 1946 just 30 days readings were actually taken. All of this does bring into question why the Met Office feel Newton Rigg warrants such high profile treatment. The site, in theory, has readings all the way back to 1883 (then known as Newton Reigny) but has actually had major long distance and not openly shown re-locations. The digital archives attribute all the digitalised data from 1959 to the last location, but this is completely incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the 1959 digital starting data that any meteorology or climate science student would be presented with \u2013 note quoted coordinates and elevation that I have highlighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Spreadsheet<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Manuscript copies in the deeper archives, however, indicate different sites (one shown on my original earlier report) and another here with accurate coordinates down to the second. Ironically, I know of many long-term temperature graphs based on Newton Rigg\u2019s data which are clearly rather pointless given the multiplicity of sites<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Even more recently, notes can be found of a relocation from within its college base to outside the grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000-08-18<\/td>Current<\/td>SITE INFORMATION<\/td>GAUGES 604741 AND 604742 AT GRID REF 3493E 5310N ELEVATION 169M<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If all this seems erratic, poor observational frequency is one problem but lack of observational ability is even worse. A point I regularly make is that if readings are sporadic, how trustworthy are the few that are taken? Amidst tens of noted excuses for not taking readings the archives shows multiple deletions of spurious numbers. The height of absurdity is surely this below. Reading\/using the wrong instruments really should never happen\u2026\u2026.but for two straight months?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005-04-01<\/td>2005-06-30<\/td>MISSING DATA<\/td>MAXIMUM TEMPS DELETED.HAD BEEN USING DRY BULB THERMOMETER<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What is known is that Newton Rigg (formerly Newton Reigny) has had numerous different locations over a surprisingly large area. Its observation standards were very poor \u2013 especially so for the time in stark contrast with exemplary sites such as Class 1\u00a0Cawood.<\/a>. How the Met Office has gone on to show this site in terms of long-term averages is equally perverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Despite its \u201cHistoric\u201d status and being operational since the latter 19th century, Newton Rigg was not selected to be a \u201cLocation Specific Long Term<\/a>\u201d climate average site. In lieu the Met Office chose other sites to provide 60 year rolling averages for the period 1961 to 2020 as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shap<\/strong> \u2013 installed 21 years after the start of the averaging period in 1982 . Great Dun Fell No 2<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Installed 32 years after the start of the averaging period in 1993. Keswick<\/strong> \u2013 Installed 22 years after the period start in 1983. Warcop Range<\/strong> \u2013 also installed in 1983 and Ambleside<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 DECEASED 31st December 1970<\/strong> but still Zombie-like producing averages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a final confirmation below are the images of the Newton Rigg site \u2013 firstly when still operational from April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"View<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And subsequent to closure from Sept 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thus despite being the only (almost) continuously running weather station in the area, its data has been ignored for area representation BUT<\/strong> will be used to \u201cfill in\u201d the period gaps for the other stations for the multiple missing decades of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this comes back to the Met Office\u2019s\u00a0refusal to answer<\/a>\u00a0my Freedom of Information requests on the grounds that I was \u201cVexatious\u201d, and it was not in the \u201cPublic Interest\u201d. In deleting from public view, the data for Lowestoft, Paisley and Nairn the Met Office has tacitly admitted they cannot substantiate their fabrication. My FOI requests have been demonstrated to be in the public interest and caused action to be taken. I will now resubmit an FOI requesting the details of the \u201cWell Correlated\u201d stations still being used to fabricate Newton Rigg\u2019s data AND if refused further legal action will be considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office is not above the law.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Met Office subsequently and covertly deleted the \u201cvisibility\u201d of data post site closure at\u00a0Lowestoft,\u00a0Nairn, and\u00a0Paisley\u00a0thus starting the collapsing of the house of cards. Newton Rigg\u2019s data, however, still remains and is continuing to be fabricated with temperatures, rainfall, frost days and precipitation being recently added for September 2025. 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