[Effect of location on temperature]

I live 6 miles north of the official Writtle Met Office station. I have a weather station in my garden which is in the shade next to some trees. Where I live is slightly more rural than Writtle.

Normally my daytime temps are 2 or 3 degrees lower than the Writtle station but my nighttime temps are slightly higher than Writtle.

Is there a meteorological reason for that? Unofficial stations nearer Writtle tend to agree with the official one.

I tried reading temps in different parts of my garden and they're similar, so my weather station position doesn't seem to a factor.

There are quite a few trees in and around my garden though, plus I'm in a very slight valley compared to Writtle. Could these things have an effect?

[Best place to view the model outputs]

I see a lot of model output images posted on the forum but I'm unsure where they've  been taken from.

 

So, where's the best place  to view them? Is  there anywhere that 'combines' the various outputs?

 

I'm particularly  interested in the temperature models  and I know I've seen graphs lurking somewhere that show the various models plotted with an average.

 

I  have my own weather station running on a Raspberry Pi and uploading data  to the internet (see http://www.henryandjoey.co.uk/weewx) but  I'm a newbie when it comes to model outputs!

 

Thanks