Why the Met Office cannot compare summers of 1976 and 2025

Written by Paul Homewood on September 29, 2025. Posted in Current News

Ray Sanders exposes just why the Met Office’s temperatures comparisons with the past are not just meaningless but deliberately misleading

The blogger ‘Tallbloke’ comments on it here: wordpress.com

I would recommend thoroughly reading the full post.

But essentially Ray has looked at how the weather stations used by the Met Office in Kent have changed since 1976.

There are sixteen sites that were operational in 1976, but have since shut. Ray, who knows the county well, says that all but two of these were pristine rural sites.

Five other stations, which were there then, are still operating – East Malling, Edenbridge, Faversham, Goudhurst and Manston – and the first four are officially classified as junk sites.

Two other stations have also been opened since 1976 – Langdon Bay and Frittenden, which are both Class 4 junk sites.

We obviously don’t know the classifications of the 1976 stations, which were not recorded.

But the Met Office have moved from a situation in 1976 when the vast majority of their sites were good quality rural sites to today when six of the seven are junk, and the other is at RAF Manston airfield.

See more here notalotofpeopleknowthat

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