Bridgefoot DCNN 7008 – A quick commentary on CLASS 5S Junk
I woke up today not only to the above daily “extremes” proclamation but also the typical “no news day” BBC article with their “Lead Weather Presenter” (i.e. propagandist-in-chief) dragged into the authorship list to create faux credibility.
The lines ” Temperatures topped 19.1C in Bridgefoot, England. Scotland recorded a high of 18.3C in Threave, while Northern Ireland hit 17C in Castlederg. Wales matched Thursday’s recording of 18.2C with Saturday’s temperature in Porthmadog.” warranted investigation.
I have already reviewed Threave {have they left the door open again?} and Castlederg and was planning to cover Porthmadog (Foehn central) soon but was not familiar with Bridgefoot. I looked it up to find that it is the lowest possible Class 5 and not required to meet any siting standards whatsoever.
2.6 Class 5 (additional estimated uncertainty added by siting up to 5 °C)
Site not meeting the requirements of class 4.
Furthermore it was also shown with the “S” addition indicative of being subject to heavy shade effects. So how bad is this Cumbrian site? Well I cannot locate a close up view yet but I doubt that is really necessary as the Google aerial view says it all.
54.64911 -3.45955 Installed 1/10/1997.
So yes, yesterday demonstrated three issues – firstly it was a pleasantly warm spring day, secondly the BBC fill up “no news days” with dross weather stories but, most importantly thirdly, the UK Met Office really has some appallingly badly sited weather stations that cannot be taken seriously. Nothing more to add other than – JUNK.
Source: https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/bridgefoot-dcnn-7008-a-quick-commentary-on-class-5s-junk/
