Daryl Ritchison: BIG temperature discrepancies | Tom Nelson Pod #285

Daryl is North Dakota’s state climatologist.   His career includes weather forecasting in all regions of the country and for various regional television stations. 00:00 Introduction to Daryl Ritchison 00:37 The Importance of Climate Data Integrity 00:57 The Fargo Airport Incident 02:03 Challenges with Airport Climate Data 02:15 Historical Climate Records in Fargo 02:48 Urban Heat Islands and Their Impact 04:56 Temperature Measurement Standards 06:08 Comparing Historical and Modern Sensors 07:15 The Role of Mesonets in Accurate Weather Data 13:02 The Fargo Airport Temperature Sensor Issue 15:35 Evidence of Sensor Malfunction 19:05 The Impact of Sensor Errors on Climate Data 22:58 Quality Control in Weather Data 24:41 Comparing ASOS and AWOS Systems 26:30 Verification of Sensor Issues 27:30 Introduction to Temperature Sensor Issues 28:47 Analyzing Temperature Data Discrepancies 30:34 Sensor Reliability and Replacement Challenges 32:46 Bureaucratic Hurdles in Data Integrity 35:12 Investigating Historical Temperature Records 38:36 Global Temperature Records and Uncertainties 40:20 Minnesota's Dew Point Record Controversy 43:32 North Dakota's Historical Temperature Extremes 49:44 Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions Slides for this podcast, along with AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries https://x.com/DarylRitchison Minnesota: Record State Dew Point Temperatures: https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/110719_record_dew_point.html ========= AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1