Here you go, historical weather
https://www.worldweatheronline.com/algarve-weather-history/pt.aspx = weather in Faro
https://www.worldweatheronline.com/lagos-weather/faro/pt.aspx = weather in Lagos
If you scroll down, you will see that both have historical weather ... but unfortunately it only goes back about 10 years, so the weather for the three days that include the day that Madeleine vanished has disappeared
I am really upset that such valuable information (FACTS) has gone.
This forum needs a place to store REAL INFO. Please can we have one John TY
PS I dont think this was either of the websites that I used when I posted the pertinent historical weather before, but I cant waste all day searching.
I am interested in weather stations, not weather reports. Your reports go back to May 2014 only as far as I can find. If I am accurate, these are years off anyway.
Let me try restating the problem
One site, plus a video maker, claim that their weather information came from an ex-RAF person who had a weather station in Luz. Now if that was the case, we would have our hands on something worthy of discussion.
The problem with this is that the person initially having his say on this weather was clear that the source of his information was Faro, and did not hide this fact. Other people morphed this into a weather station in Luz, operated by the ex-airman. It is child's play to check that the claimed Luz data is identical to the Faro data, when of course it should have been different.
But if the airman had indeed recorded the weather conditions, would that be the end of the discussion? He lives somewhere on Rua Praia da Luz (Luz beach road). Apartment 5A is perhaps 800m away. So we could debate whether the weather was the same or different across these two locations.
After pondering the weather question, I decided to conduct a practical experiment. For over a year I collected weather data from our part of Luz, in order to make a comparison against Sagres and Faro. But I have not carried out that analysis, because there was a flaw in my data collection. I was doing it at our villa on top of a (windy) hill, whereas 5A is much more sheltered. I would have needed to go into Luz twice every day, to record weather at the Tapas zone at the time of day that the Last Photo was taken, and to 5A around 10 pm.
I can get historical weather 'reports' for several places around us. There are no weather stations in any of them. Sites simply store the forecasts based on Sagres and Faro and then publish those forecasts as historical data.
Have a look at the Luz webcam. It is getting its weather information from somewhere, just not from its private weather station. Currently, I get mine from
https://www.otempo.pt/ to check on rain and thunderstorms (when our power often goes off). And while I would like to get my personal weather station as an amusement, a multi-day forecast is much more valuable, so this site is on my favourites list.
As far as I can tell, we have evidence from the Last Photo, plus the video clip when the McCanns were taken to Portimão in the morning of 4 May. After that, we are into pronouncements by the Tapas9 and others.
