Trevince DCNN 8936 – Entering the 3rd decade of the 21st Century with 19th Century dross.

50.21853 -5.17480 Met Office CIMO Assessed CLASS 5 repeat CLASS 5 Installed 30/9/2020

I quote

“Observations from amateur stations and those not part of the Met Office’s official network cannot be considered for entry into the official records as they’re not subject to the same internationally agreed standards that are required for the official records.”

Trevince is one of the Met Office’s official network, it is an amateur site and one so poor it meets no internationally agreed standards because there are no regulatory conditions to be met for a Class 5 site. It is in fact “Class 5 (additional estimated uncertainty added by siting up to 5 °C)” for which the requirements are “Site not meeting the requirements of class 4.” in other words no conditions at all – JUNK………..and this was installed less than 5 years ago.

The Met Office openly gives the entire reason for running this site as:

“Personal” located in a “Field sloping gently down to SE”. They seem to be so concerned about the site’s local attributes that they cannot even be bothered to evaluate them by giving their own standard ratings to each category. Everything is blank.

It really does not seem worth me going further with any site evaluation, the Met Office itself rates it as Junk – more a waste of computer memory storage. There are, however, important questions raised by this site. Why is the Met Office being so untruthful? They falsely claim their standards are very high and “professional” when clearly this and and so many more of their sites demonstrate they are nothing more than poor quality back garden amateur sites. There may be the excuse of older legacy sites originally intended for other specific purposes being pressed into use for climate reporting but there is none of that here. This is an almost brand new, unregulated standard offering that is far worse than most genuine amateur sites.

Why the charade that this is somehow “official”. Just like Astwood Bank this is an amateur site run for “personal” reasons i.e. a hobby! The Met Office portrays itself as some high tech organisation – an elite -when the reality is a “barrow boy” outfit cobbling together data that is not worthy of the name. Bear in mind that if this site were to record a highest ever reading it would almost certainly be regarded as a representative site. Trevince is a tourist attraction – what a way to get yourself “on the map!”

Suffice it to say Trevince nor any others of this almost comedic standard will be anywhere near a serious national historic climate reconstruction.