How do we know the true temperature?

[Tinkerblonde1]

Currently apple weather says its 27 degrees where I am. The BBC says its 24 degrees and the met office says its 25.

So which is it? Is there an official site that shows the current true temperature?

Depends where they get their data from. Weather stations are all over there may be several in your area stick with one source. If your curious you may be able to find out where they get there readings. I think ours (via BBC) come from a station at the nearby college.

Ours comes from a nearby airfield where they have a weather monitoring station. Although I know that their temperature and ours is usually around 1degree different, because they are in a valley and we are the other side of a small hill.

Weird suggestion, but you could buy a thermometer.

So which is usually correct BBC the met office?

I have one. I was just wondering which was official. For is say it did break 40 degrees.

So which is usually correct BBC the met office?

Well, I would go with the MET office as its their area of specialty.

MET office as they are the ones who keep the official records

It’s just Met not MET, it’s an abbreviation not an acronym. As pps have said it’s all ‘correct’ by a thermometer near you. MO has all the weather stations kept to internationally recognised standards and regularly maintained.

BBC get their data from MO afaik, but it may depend on how locally the nearest weather station to your postcode is- if you’ve put your postcode into MO but not bbc they might have more localised data?

Some websites include crowd sourced data from weather watchers which may be rigorously checked but may not.