Here’s the problem:
The Daily Caller News Foundation decided to look into it, and with the help of meteorologist Anthony Watts, found the weather station was located at Ain Beida Airport about four miles southeast of Ouargla.
Airports tend to run hotter than surrounding areas because of runways, jet wash from airplanes, vehicles exhaust and other non-natural factors that can artificially raise temperatures, creating a heat island relative to the surrounding area.
“It’s not the right place to measure climate,” Watts, publisher of the popular science blog Watts Up With That, told TheDCNF. “It’s not climatologically representative.”
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