Lingwood:Strumpshaw Hill DCNN 3000 – A very poor site that stands head and shoulders above its comparative neighbours.

52.61080 1.48318 Met Office CIMO Assessed Class 5 Temperature records from 1/4/2009

This is my 250th post since re-starting the Surface Stations Project on the 24th August 2024. That I have still not covered all the Class 5 stations yet surprises even me but there are still 31 more of these effectively unregulated ones I have yet to review! Lingwood:Strumpshaw Hill may not be the worst sited of them all but it comes very close. Amazingly, it is infinitely better than any of its near “neighbours”.

I have deliberately used a wide angle view in the headline image to include the thick belt of woodland to the south and the ever-changing agricultural land to all other compass points surrounding this highly enclosed domestic rear garden site. To give more context below is an image of the entrance driveway to the property from the aptly named “Wood Lane” to the south.

Viewing from the Buckenham Road trackway leading to the property from north it is just about possible from one older streetview image to discern a vague white blob indicating the screen – under the trees and surrounded by shrubbery.

I really feel delineating the proximity with radius circles is a pointless exercise as this site can have no credibility whatsoever for contributing any data to the national historic temperature record – but it does as shown here. {Worth remembering this listing for later reference}

Clearly the site is not going to represent anywhere other than the tiny micro-climate of the rear garden it sits in. I defy any meteorologist to claim this site offers any climate reporting benefits so why on earth is it included in the above listing and its data even considered? Answer: because it is infinitely better than all those comparative Met Office “Weather Stations” in the area……..the UNDEAD strike again!

I use the term “infinitely better” simply because NONE OF THE ABOVE SITES EVEN EXIST. Check out that “List of all the synoptic and climate stations” and they are not there. Regular readers will know well about the absurdity of Lowestoft still reporting monthly averages here despite closure 15 years ago as well as the proof of an afterlife at Scole. Coltishall died 19 years ago, Morley St Botolph died 20 years ago and Hemsby died nearly 25 years ago.

Lingwood weather station sits just 9 miles from the fully operational Norwich Airport site and 11 miles from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Are we really to believe that the Airport site cannot be used or that the CRU does not have a weather station? Seems someone is missing a “Trick”