On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:44:15 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

My favorite was the US Federal Weather station that was
placed directly in the exhaust of a building air conditioner.

Ummm... like this wx station mounted on top of the HVAC units?
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/KSBW-WX-Station.jpg
It's the weather station for the Santa Cruz sales office for KSBW. I'm
told it isn't used for forecasting or data collection.

"Distorted data? Feds close 600 weather stations amid criticism
they're situated to report warming"
https://www.foxnews.com/science/distorted-data-feds-close-600-weather-stations-amid-criticism-theyre-situated-to-report-warming

I can supply plenty more examples of bad sitting. However, most of
these abominations have been either moved or replaced by more modern
monitoring systems. Details if anyone wants them as this drifting
topic is rather far off bicycling tech.

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