As for the Burbank Airport, Watts wrote that “the weather station is virtually surrounded by asphalt runways, taxiways, and aircraft parking ramps,” which means the “likelihood for the station to get in the middle of a [400-degree] jetwash is almost a certainty, being so close to taxiways with turns.”

Not news unless you are talking lamestream news. Weather stations and heat island effect have been a hot topic in “skeptic” circles for a long time. Why haven’t UN/IPCC climate change grant recipient$ told u$/done $omething before?

http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/09/record-temperature-los-angeles-compromised/

Michael Bastasch

“In my opinion, the data from these stations is worthless,” California-based meteorologist Anthony Watts wrote on his blog Watts Up With That.

That’s not to say Los Angeles wasn’t scorching hot. Temperatures in much of greater Los Angeles were in the triple digits, according to the National Weather Service.

On the contrary, what Watts claims is that artificial heat sources and sinks produce localized heat around weather stations, adding the few degrees necessary to qualify as records. In general, cities are warmer than surrounding countryside owing to the urban heat island effect. Read the rest of this entry »