Fort Valley, Arizona had daily temperatures recorded every day during summer 1990. NOAA declared the data to be missing, and bumped the temperature up by 0.64C (1.16F)
The USHCN adjusted monthly data shows summer 1990 as missing and 27.06C USH0002316011990 623EX 620EX 1168EX 1613EX 2016EX 2872EX 2711EX 2536EX 2312 1916 1284a 542a THE USHCN Raw monthly data shows it present and 26.42C USH00023160 1990 557 601a 1083 1528a 1917 2812 2658 2456 2212 1816 1182a 432a The USHCN Daily data shows temperatures recorded every day that summer, and 26.42C USC00023160199006TMAX 194 0 250 0 289 0 294 0 289 0 267 0 272 0 294 0 267 0 211 0 222 0 244 0 239 0 233 0 211 0 228 0 261 0 278 0 278 0 283 0 317 0 322 0 333 0 333 0 339 0 339 0 333 0 339 0 339 0 339 0-9999 USC00023160199007TMAX 333 0 294 0 261 0 294 0 267 0 267 0 206 0 222 0 233 0 267 0 289 0 300 0 267 0 256 0 222 0 250 0 261 0 267 0 300 0 283 0 261 0 261 0 256 0 239 0 233 0 244 0 267 0 283 0 289 0 306 0 261 0 USC00023160199008TMAX 261 0 228 0 256 0 283 0 261 0 267 0 267 0 289 0 294 0 294 0 283 0 278 0 178 0 133 0 161 0 194 0 233 0 233 0 211 0 222 0 233 0 244 0 244 0 233 0 233 0 256 0 267 0 261 0 289 0 289 0 239 0
Fort Valley is a very rural US Forest Service research station near Flagstaff, and is as well sited as a thermometer can be.
NOAA declared two thirds of the recorded daily data at Fort Valley, Arizona from 1990 to be missing, and replaced them with fake higher temperatures
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/readme.txt
How could they possibly think they would get away with this?
