Monday, June 18, 2007

Measuring Temperatures - Update

SEARCH BLOG: GLOBAL WARMING

The other day, I wrote about the strange difference between the reported temperatures for this locality and the temperatures I recorded.

Today... absolutely no difference.





No difference.... Could be because it is a fairly cloudy (despite what the little picture shows) and windy eliminating whatever factors caused the monitoring station to be higher the other day.

Of course, another report shows this...


That's bound to be a record... you think?

UPDATE

At slightly after 6 p.m., the variance between my thermometer and two reporting stations is 5 degrees (89 on my porch versus 94). This from a monitoring site at another subdivision reported by Wunderground....





Now, if two sites that are residential are 5 degrees less than two other nearby sites, one can only guess that the reason is factors surrounding the two higher temperature sites ... like asphalt and metals surfaces and traffic.

This continues to raise questions about the quality control at weather monitoring stations.
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