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Do the weather servers accurately record the weather extremes?

April 26, 2017accurately EXTREMES record servers weather

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Do the weather servers accurately record the weather extremes?

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At present the ‘weather servers’ don’t necessarily record the most accurate information about weather extremes. Every 10 minutes a program runs at AAD Head Office in Kingston that gets the latest image from the station webcam, and also asks the ‘weather server’ on station how windy and cold it is, at the minute the image is retrieved. The time/date and weather information is stamped on the image and it’s published on the internet. If it gets really windy at 2:05 pm one day, for example, then the images at 2:00 pm and 2:10 pm will fail to record this.