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A. WUWT started out as a broad interest science blog under the umbrella of the Chico Enterprise Record Newspaper “NorCalBlogs” in 2006, where it is still listed. I decided to start blogging there because I had an interest in exploring and doing some experiments about “gee whiz” things. For awhile, it was general science and tech interest, catering mainly to local readers, but in the spring of 2007 that changed. One of the experiments in 2007 was something I’d always wondered about when I was in college in 1976, charged with setting up a remote weather station for Purdue University as a student assistant to the meteorology department (I was later hired full-time as a staff member). When I assembled the Stevenson Screen shelter, I was shocked to discover that whitewash was coming of in my hands, and even more shocked to discover that was still the standard coating for all U.S. Weather Bureau shelters. Later I learned that about 1979 the standard was switched to latex paint. I’d always wondered what that did to the ambient temperature characteristics, but never investigated it until I started blogging. In spring 2007, I did some paint experiments to test the differences, and while inspecting local NOAA weather stations to see how their paint characteristics were, discovered oddities in station siting in nearby station Chico and Marysville that led me to realize that there was an even bigger issue with station siting, one that eclipsed the paint issues. That led to the surfacestations.org project, which grew to international interest.
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