Met Office Claims Of New Record At Cambridge Look Very Dodgy

How does this fare against WMO standards?

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

The Met Office have rather conveniently decided that a new record might have been set in Cambridge after all, at the Botanical Gardens.

According to the Met Office location details, this is where it is situated:

It appears to be on top of the building, but I suspect the NOAA Metadata below is more accurate:

Either way, the Botanical Gardens are well surrounded by the urbanised city, particularly to the south and east, where the wind was blowing from yesterday:

If anyone is familiar with the Botanical Gardens, they might shed some light on matters.

At the moment the Botanical Garden site is showing 38.7C, compared to the 38.1C set at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), about 2 miles (3 km) north of the city centre near Girton.

Even more significantly, there is a third official site at Cambridge, run by the University’s Digital…

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