Adelaide Now is carrying this news item (HT Chris Gillham) – Weather station near Adelaide High School to more accurately measure climate change will involve cutting 18 Parkland trees
The article says – [The bureau wants to relocate to the Parklands site to be able to make comparisons with historical readings gathered at a previous station which operated near the site between the early days of the South Australian colony and 1979, when the city station was moved to Kent Town.
The data from the new weather station would be able to be accurately compared to historical figures to determine the impact of climate change.]
So the BoM thinks that relocation on this or that postage stamp area of parkland enclosed by the huge and ever increasing urban heat island of the ever expanding and infilling Adelaide suburbs – will somehow mean that “…data from the new weather station would be able to be accurately compared to historical figures to determine the impact of climate change.”
Utter delusion.
And of course this is the same BoM who thinks Canberra Airport is “non-urban”
I wonder, is the original instrument still in existence?
Bob – the original West Terrace site that the BoM left in ~1979 has been built over by a school I think – see GoogleEarth if you scroll down comments here to one before the end –
www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=3398
A point that seems to emerge from the news is that assuming the BoM have to leave Kent Town in July – there can be very little overlap with the new site – where ever it will be. For such an important station – and an org that is always bleating about worlds best practice – a few years overlap with readings at the two sites should be standard. How did the BoM not plan further ahead with their lease running out at Kent Town ?
BTW – the comments at the AdelaideNow article were worth reading.