[fleitz]

Yes, but in my rudimentary understanding of weather the importance is the pressure differential rather than the absolute pressure.

I believe the data in aggregate will provide a pretty good map of the pressure gradient which could then be fixed to the more accurate dedicated weather stations. Think of it like the 10,000 year clock which uses a clock known to drift in conjunction with a solar time fix to calibrate.

[nieve]

You may be right about pressure, but btown is talking about temperature and that's going to have much worse systematic bias exactly as he says. Your comment and his are nearly completely unrelated.