Pateley Bridge:Ravens Nest DCNN4048 – A virtual weather station or just misrepresentation.

54.07051 -1.177162 Met Office CIMO Assessed Class 4 Temperature Records from 1/4/2000

There most certainly is an official Met Office weather station at Pateley Bridge and has been for over 25 years. Artificial Intelligence is thus clearly not a reliable source of information, a point I raised in my review of Southampton where the long closed weather station was shown by AI as a currently operational site along with “reputable” long term data. Even more topically AI has recently reported on events at a non-existent football match which was taken as “evidence” by West Midlands Police. {“Guildford admitted an AI tool was responsible for providing incorrect evidence that referred to a match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and West Ham that never took place –“}

A major point I made in my original letter to Peter Kyle M P concerned not only the accuracy of Met Office data but also how its potentially invalid data was being interpreted/misused by third parties notably World Weather Attribution. This latter issue is very relevant in current times where information on the internet comes with an acceptance of the source. Information from approved or acceptable sources is deemed “good” whilst information running contrary to the approved agenda (this blog falls into the latter category) is deemed “Disinformation” no matter how verifiable and accurate it actually is.

Pateley Bridge weather station certainly comes under the AI Disinformation bracket reinforced by the might of its Wikipedia page.

“Climate data for Pateley Bridge, 154m amsl (1981–2010) (extremes 1992–)” No the weather station is not at 259m amsl.

” The warmest temperature recorded was 31.0 °C (87.8 °F) on 1 July 2015. ” NO IT WAS NOT the maximum recorded at Pately Bridge that day was 29.2 °C.  

The rest of the text goes on to appear to quote data for Pateley Bridge with only a passing reference to Dishforth Airfield. However, none of the data actually refers to Patelely Bridge at all and is thus complete FICTION. The source, though, is deemed an acceptable one and does refer via link to the “high authority” of the Met Office, thus for someone like me to query it must be either Disinformation or even a conspiracy theory.

All this above nonsense has actually been extracted from the “Nearest Climate Station” at just 33m amsl (where does “154m” come from?) and 15 miles away that also ceased operating 6/6/2016….Dishforth Airfield.

The Met Office, by its dissociation of actually having a climate reporting weather station at Pateley Brdige, has created the impression that using homogenised data from a low elevation airfield is relatable. The reality is that the Dishforth climate will be completely different to the high Dales with their noted localised micro-climates. Does this below seem even remotely similar to the headline image?

The other nearby climate stations of Leeming and Topcliffe are also incomparable airfields and Bingley is just a risible parody of a weather station site that no credible meteorological organisation could possibly justify.

Pateley Bridge is assessed as Class 4 for the readily evident reasons of unacceptable slope, being bounded by fences running both north to south east and north to south west, and subject to heavy shading principally from the south east. The site was automated in 2010 probably on the grounds that in its prior history nobody seemed overly concerned in actually making observations. Of the 1,500 days (4+ years) from 2006 just 377 manual observations were made – effectively a pointless exercise for any worthwhile climate recording.

That data from such a poor site not only gets used for homogenisation and data infill for the surrounding area and then gets reinterpreted in reverse as coming from somewhere in between typifies Met Office sloppy representation. Pateley Bridge is a weather station to forget.

Source: https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/pateley-bridgeravens-nest-dcnn4048-a-virtual-weather-station-or-just-misrepresentation/