I remember seeing something a long time ago about the temperature meter’s placement being a variable that was skewing data—oftentimes it was placed near a shed in an otherwise barren location so that wind and freezing rain might be blocked by the shed’s position and that even being hidden from direct sunlight would alter the meter reading. Believe it or not I think it was on a Channel 13 (read PBS) show since it was too long ago for me to have had cable.
.............oftentimes it was placed near a shed in an otherwise barren location so that wind and freezing rain might be blocked by the shed’s position and that even being hidden from direct sunlight................
Yeah! then due to a lack of upkeep, after many years the box the instruments were housed in started to fall apart, so sunlight hit the instruments; then after another 25 years the barren location became a shopping mall, with asphalt parking lot next to the instruments!