Met Office reporting yesterday was the hottest day (Heathrow 34.2). This beats the previous hottest day which was also at Heathrow.

Why Heathrow?

Is there something special about its location that attracts such high temps?
Or is it simply the pollution ????

In The Know (but not this time) wrote:

Why Heathrow?

Is there something special about its location that attracts such high temps?



No. Heathrow is just one of the Metoffice's main observation locations.

There are about 140 of them. And it is highly likely the Heathrow was not the hottest place in the UK yesterday.

Just the hottest of these 140 places.

Airfields are often the hottest places.

Quite logically, because they have huge expanses of heat retaining and reflecting concrete and tarmac.

Q.E.D.

The hottest palce in Britain is usually Central London, in the middle of the South East.

And the highest recorded temperature, ever, was in Faversham, Kent - almost exactly 10 years ago.

38.8c

Yep, all that concrete / asphalt must act like a storage heater - so WHY base your meter reading equipment there? It's bound to give a distorted reading, surely?

ITK wrote, "WHY base your meter reading equipment there? It's bound to give a distorted reading, surely?"

Well Heathrow is in the open air, and they do take air readings, or maybe just sensationalism; and Faversham '06? was the true hottest ever 'recorded' UK air-reading ?

Tho some of the media hot-air on College Green outside Westminster must beat that; so it's 'back to the studio from our Political Correspondent..'


Distorted media, distorted Met Office, same $hit different dogs.

In The Know wrote:
WHY base your meter reading equipment there? It's bound to give a distorted reading

Heathrow is on about 5 square miles.

Bright chaps there know how to get accurate readings.

Why would a Derbyshire OAP know better?

Ben 11 wrote:
[quote]In The Know wrote:


Why would a Derbyshire OAP know better?

Or a silly prat with more insults than sense?

Ben 11 wrote:

Bright chaps there know how to get accurate readings


The sensors are strategically located away from any heat (or other) sources which might distort readings

Away from terminal buildings/runways/aircraft and in thermal wells which incorporate nickel or platinum insulation