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From: RC Macaulay
Subject: Re: Phytoplankton
Plummet
Thomas Malloy wrote..
> I was working by a
mercury
thermometer today. The radio station reported a temperature, which
I
assume they got from the weather service which was 8 degrees F
lower
than the one I observed.
Thomas, One of the worse kept
secrets is the unwritten agreement between
the weather bureau and the local
chamber of commence. It's all about tourism
and keeping the temperature
statistics as " average" as they can stretch
the
truth.
Richard
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Please,
guys, use some common sense. The temperature at any local point can
very
widely from the "official" temperature because local temperatures do
vary. If
you are standing on a lawn, in the shade, or on a hot asphalt
parking lot you
will get significantly different temperatures. The US
Weather service
sampling points are standardized structures which are often
located at some
airport. There is a rain gauge, an anamometer, weather vane
and a
thermomenter enclosed in a modest white-painted ventilated box.
Ventilated,
to allow the local air to flow thorough and painted white to
minimize solar
heating which would distort the temperature measurement.
Relative humidity is
also measured.
Each mesuremnent of local conditions has to be as good as
possible for the
weather forecasting computers to work at all. Skewing the
data for "tourism"
would serve nobody's interests.
Really, if
conspiracy theories is your hobby, try something else. Such
assertions are
credibility-shredders.
Mike Carrell
Mike, No impingment on the intregity of the weather professional was
intended. The statisticical data gets skewed once it is out of the hands of the
weather professional into the bureaucracy which is subject to politics. The same
is true of the education system, NASA, etc a.i.
Gosh! You are such a trusting soul. Surely the US Constitution
taught us something. The document is written to protect us from the government..
not visa-verse. The framers of that document knew the laws of human nature and
tried to compensate. One need not be a conspiracy theorist to sustain an
alertness. Just don't believe everything you read in the funny papers.
Richard
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