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You’d think the answer would be obvious, but here we have a NOAA operated USHCN climate station of record providing a live experiment. It always helps to illustrate with photos. Today I surveyed a sewage treatment plant, one of 4 stations surveyed today (though I tried for 5) and found that for convenience, they had made a nice concrete walkway to allow servicing the Fisher-Porter rain gauge, which needs a paper punch tape replaced one a month.
Here is what you see in visible light:
Gee, I wonder why they show higher temperatures than RSS
Gee, I wonder if you know that RSS temperatures are for the lower troposphere and NOAA weather station temperatures are for the Earth's SURFACE ??????????