On Sunday, 13 November 2016 20:22:42 UTC, wrote:
On Friday, 11 November 2016 17:26:40 UTC, wrote:
Having just read the piece on observation timing on the FAQ pages, I wanted to see what the majority do with regards timings.

10 or so years ago, as a teenager with admittedly not much of an eye for detail, I used to take my readings at 1800 local time each day, noting the max/mins for the previous 24 hours. However, having had a little look on various sites I see 0900 local seems to be a more common time, along with splitting the climatological day into two periods. Or is a "normal" day seen as acceptable (00-24 local)?

Thanks,

Luke

Having just visited the Met Office website, I notice on the "extremes" page for the last 24 hours, they have high/low max temp as having occurred between 09-21 on the date listed, and low min between 21-09 (along with rainfall and sun between 21-21).

Do anyone of you follow this way of recording your extremes or should I follow the COL standards on this page http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge..._protocols.pdf

I'm also assuming the COL standards I've linked to are the most up to date?

On Sunday, 13 November 2016 10:25:07 UTC, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 02:06:57 -0800 (PST)
wrote:

I never realised my post would create such a debate.

I can't think why you didn't. This subject has been causing big
debates here for the past couple of decades. ;-)

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I can see that now!