Buchan (No identifier number) – From the undead to the ante-natal clinic.

57.45884 -1.81035 No existing CIMO assessement known. Installation date – not known

Buchan is an interesting weather station at “Remote Radar Head Buchan” that is most certainly not open for public inspection being a secure location. Interesting in that it does not appear to have any standard District County Network Number (DCNN) identifier nor any WMO designation. In fact does it even exist? Well it is not on the list of Open/Closed stations nor does it appear on the CIMO listing of stations. So what is the story?

The Met office publishes a list of all its Synoptic and Climate reporting stations in alphabetical order by country i.e. English followed by Northern Irish, Scottish and then Welsh. Check it out, there is no mention of Buchan anywhere on that list either. So let’s go to the archives where it does appear as below:

So far so good but there is no archived temperature data at all and in fact nothing at all to indicate there is any data available.

This is very similar to Plymouth Kinterbury Point where the site is solely for supplying immediate site data for specific local purposes but managed to have its data drifted into the public arena by “mistake” as explained to Paul Homewood of NALOPKT who inquired on my behalf.

“Hi Paul, thank you for your enquiry.

I have checked the weather station you mentioned in your enquiry and it has come to light that an administrative error resulted in data from this site recently making it on to our external website for extremes.

This is a customer-only site and as such is used to inform the customer’s specific decisions rather than being used for public records. As this site is used to provide very specific customer information, which is not climate related, it therefore does not have a CIMO rating and should not be available for our external website for extremes. The issue has now been resolved and will no longer be seen in any of our products.

Thank you for making us aware of this.

Nicky

Nicola Maxey BSc (Hons) Senior Press Officer”

So why is Buchan similar? Well yesterday the Met Office published this and note there is no hyperlink for this station name to more details.

Should Buchan be appearing in this public record? I would ask but, of course, I am deemed vexatious and they would not answer me. So unless anyone else chooses to query if this is a mistake then it will simply carry on. Of course I could ask from another email address, surely they would not know it was me. Well over 1 month ago on the 13th June I did that very thing, different name, different email address from a different supplier. And no responses at all as at 17th July despite a gentle reminder……..

…………but a little after note for the Met Office about Buchan for when they read this……..how do I know exactly where it is?

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