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With those hot weather records in Los Angeles being set, it’s important to remember where measurements are taken. I’ve done an investigation and found that every “all time high” reported by the LA Times is from a station compromised by heat sources and heat sinks. In my opinion, the data from these stations is worthless.

Weather "stations" smack in the middle of asphalt, lots of vehicles parked nearby; one placed in an airport by a runway, likely to be affected by jet backwash; another placed on a roof between two AC units.  Real scientific.

Y'all need to see the pics.

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... A reminder, NOAA’s own requirements for the placement of thermometers to record climate data has been violated on every one of these stations.

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    Thermometers should be shielded from the sun, rain, snow and other sources of light, heat, or cold that can cause erroneous readings. If an instrument shelter is used, it should be designed to allow the maximum possible free flow of air while providing protection from heat, precipitation and light. A shady location on the northeast side of the school is a preferred site.

    The thermometer should be 4.5 to 6 feet above the ground and in a grassy location. (You may need to keep a step stool nearby for short people because readings are taken at eye level to minimize parallax error.) A flat, open clearing is desirable so that the thermometer is freely ventilated by the flow of air. Stay at least 100 feet away from concrete or paved surfaces. Avoid balconies, patios, enclosed porches, and beneath eaves.
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Surprise surprise........ no not really. 

One of the biggest science scams ever seen.   Another one that keeps going on and on,  that dippy Musk and his electric car.

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I swear I have deja Vu all over again...and again...and again!

I lost track of how many locations have pics of probes in hot spaces on rooftops and such.

And people are too stupid to realize accurate ambient temperature are taken in the shade away from heat producing/absorbing-radiating sources.

They placed these things in hotspots INTENTIONALLY!

Makes one want to harpoon a prog in the forehead for the good of mankind.
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I swear I have deja Vu all over again...and again...and again!

I lost track of how many locations have pics of probes in hot spaces on rooftops and such.

And people are too stupid to realize accurate ambient temperature are taken in the shade away from heat producing/absorbing-radiating sources.

They placed these things in hotspots INTENTIONALLY!

Makes one want to harpoon a prog in the forehead for the good of mankind.

Makes you wonder if a meteorologist gets a liberal arts degree as opposed to a technical/scientific degree.  Course we have always known
weather forecasting is 8 parts BS, and 2 parts possible fact.   Locally we had a really bad windstorm....Residents have photo's of a Funnel
Cloud, however, the Nat. Weather Service reported "in line winds", based on their highly accurate radar station (about 75 plus miles away).
 

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They kill me.  It ain't a tornado until and when they say their equipment says it's a tornado.  Nevermind about you, with yer roof ripped off ...
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Said that a number of times.  Storm of July 2011 at the lake ripped up trees and toppled them and others cut in half...still to this day describe it as a severe thunderstorm with straightline winds...but straightline winds do not shred trees, and many residents reported a funnel....and a 11 girl at a campsite died from a big tree branch that fell.

I'll tell them where to stick their Doppler!
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What's in it for them to not say it's a tornado? That they missed it?

We had a horrible storm once with a lot of damage and huge trees uprooted and tossed into streets and they said it wasn't a tornado.
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What's in it for them to not say it's a tornado? That they missed it?

Maybe ego, maybe money.

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We had a horrible storm once with a lot of damage and huge trees uprooted and tossed into streets and they said it wasn't a tornado.

You can see the funnel cloud with your own eyes and unless their instruments showed tornado, to them it wasn't a tornado.
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As far as MN & WI go...I have never seen a storm come in and see/hear a weather guy say anything but "Doppler shows signs of possible rotation here" or "severe weather (wind, hail, tornadoes) possible...only once a spotter/LEO makes an official report do they locally officially declare a tornado...most official announcements come from the NWS(NOAA) and they have a 30% success rate (70% are false alarms)...couple that with people being desensitized to over-the-top predictions from meteorologists locally and nationally (Storm of the Century, naming every storm now even winter ones) and you have a problem.

To issue an official warning, a tornado has to be seen on radar.

Check this out -

There's a balance between trying to detect and warn for every single tornado while keeping the number of false alarms low. The more tornado warnings you issue, the higher chance of a false alarm, which increases public complacency.

It is easier for a forecaster to verify a tornado warning for a supercell on days with a potential for long-track, violent tornadoes. Those signatures are usually distinct, straight out of a meteorology case study.

Tornado warning performance and lead times are higher on these relatively few, volatile days, according to a 2008 study by Kelly Keene, Paul Schlatter, Jack Hales and Harold Brooks of NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory and Storm Prediction Center.

However, as Ian Livingston of ustornadoes.com found, about 90 percent of tornadoes in the U.S. from 1950-2016 were weak, rated EF0 or EF1 and can occur in more marginal environments for severe thunderstorms and/or display less distinct radar signatures.

Often, the environment spawning these weaker tornadoes is only marginally supportive for tornadoes, and radar signatures are weaker or more subtle.

Other challenges forecasters face in these situations include:

Radar is often unable to see rotation in the lowest elevations near the ground, particularly for distant storms, since the beam gains elevation with distance.
Nighttime tornadoes are hard to verify as they're happening unless the tornado is illuminated by lightning, power flashes are seen, or damage has already happened.
Short-lived tornadoes embedded in squall lines may quickly form, then dissipate, and their signatures may be less pronounced.
Tornadoes in squall lines or high-precipitation supercells may be obscured by rain, and, therefore, hard to identify by spotters.
Spotter networks may be more dense in, say, Oklahoma, but far less in sparsely-populated areas.
Outside of the core severe weather months during spring and early summer, the environments are more marginal, the public is less aware, and perhaps fewer spotters available.
As meteorologist Jonathan Belles wrote in May 2017, in an attempt to address the false alarm problem, lead times for tornado warnings have decreased from 13 to 14 minutes at the beginning of the decade, to around 8 to 9 minutes in the past year.

NWS forecasters now wait until a tornado has begun before issuing a warning more often, according to Dr. Harold Brooks, senior scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, in a presentation given at the 28th Conference on Severe Local Storms in 2016.

In essence, this comes down to a question of whether the public can stomach missing a few more weaker tornadoes (EF0/EF1) in order to lessen the overall tornado warning false-alarm rate.

http://downdraft.caps.ou.edu/reu/reu08/Final%20Papers/Keene_final_paper.pdf

Even now, even if a spotter report confirming a tornado is on the ground, meteorologists go get radar confirmation.

To me eyeballing it and hearing of others eyeballing one is more valuable than "official" pronouncements.

We are now where The Founders were when they faced despotism.