Gosport Fleetlands DCNN5660 – Rotor Wash?

50.83638 -1.16832 Met Office CIMO Assessed Class 3 Installed 1/8/2011 (NO TEMPERATURE RECORDS)

I have received three sets of CIMO ratings from the Met Office relating to CIMO ratings for UK weather stations. On every one of them Gosport Fleetlands appears and is ranked as Class 3. Despite being installed in 2011 as a full synoptic weather station recording not only temperature but also detailed wind conditions, there are precisely zero archived records of any readings. “No MIDAS Open data are available from this station“ Now why would that be?

No need to beat about the bush here, there are no records archived thus this site cannot be a climate reporting station whatever the Met Office may claim. No public records means no accountability means no credibility – end of, period, full stop etc, etc. If the Met Office feels basic temperature data is a state secret they have a major problem with the real world.

Focussing in on the above google aerial image it is worth considering one local aspect of rather major importance.

Talkshop commenter “HiFast” added his important real world aviation experience and meteorological expertise in his evaluation of both helicopters and aviation aspects on meteorological observations detailed in my report on Culdrose. He later advised me that he stood firmly behind his comments regarding the Met Office inviting ridicule in using such aviation sites for climate reporting purposes. Now what is that in the image above? That is not a small helicopter, it is one of these:

The effect of one of these on meteorological instrumentation in the vicinity really should not be one of conjecture, it should be blatantly obvious……..and it is even to the Met Office BY THEIR OWN ADMISSION.

“ALL ELEMENTS ARE SUSPECT DUE TO TALL BUILDINGS/ROTOR WASH/ENGINE EXHAUST/HEAT SOURCES.”

Excuse my sarcasm, but “Quelle surprise!” Yet again this is more evidence to explain exactly why the Met Office refuses to advise which stations are used in the compilation of data for long closed and non-existent “Climate Averages” stations. Interrogate their website for the Gosport area and you will get this.

The issue is that both Solent (closed 27/02/2015) and Southampton Mayflower Park (closed 31/3/2000) DO NOT EXIST but their ongoing climate averages are, in part, being constructed from totally corrupted sites such as Gosport which has no publicly viewable records at all.

Despite all this we are just supposed to blindly “believe” what the Met Office tells us unquestioningly despite everything we can see with our own eyes……if we were allowed in there but of course this is a secure area and we are not.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Met Office is not to be trusted to produce accurate, scientific and most importantly not ideologically corrupted data.

Source: https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/gosport-fleetlands-dcnn5660-rotor-wash/