They used data from stations like these to buttress their contention that man-made warming is occurring, and the rest of their data is based on fraudulent, error-prone computer models and outright fabrications (look up "global warming hockey stick".
My thermometers differ by over 20 degrees on a hot summer day. One is on a corner of the porch in the sunlight, the other is on the fence where air circulates and the sunlight is scattered by thin vegetation (not shade).