Here is some info on temp sensors. The Data is collected by the National Centers for Environmental Information, but if you don’t trust the gov’ment just use your own thermometer.
Sept 5 in Phoenix - Another temp record?
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A technical liaison from a comm cable manufacturer was from the Canadian Maritimes originally, but had worked in NC's Research Triangle Park tech hub for decades.
He was transferred to Phoenix for a year and told me how unbearable the heat was.
I said that I thought it might be OK because it was a dry heat.
He replied "You stick your head in a dry oven for few minutes and tell me if dry heat is OK".
Point taken!
This is our forecast for the next couple weeks. About normal for this time of year.
Phoenix has created it's own heat island and the relative humidities have also increased as the urbanization of the area took effect. Higher low temperatures have helped make the highs higher. It's not some "climate" based issue. It's people.
Agreed. Standards (rules/laws) are developed so that some semblance of uniformity can allow measurements to be somewhat compared from location to location. In reality, weather measurements are hugely relevant (closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered). A person walking out of the grocery store on black tarmac in Phoenix during a 110F day doesn't care what the temperature is 10 feet above the ground in an open field. Because the thermometer reading on that black tarmac parking lot is not 10 feet high does not really matter to the people experiencing that griddle experience.The standard for temperature measurement is 10 ft, but how about if our Bittog brothers in Phoenix take a look at what their vehicle outdoor temp is on Thursday and report back?
It's the Desert Southwest..... It's HOT in the Summer.
According to the AZ Central, Sky Harbor weather instruments are located 5 feet above ground, to measure ground temp.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...-official-temp-is-taken-at-airport/466868001/
Official thermometers are placed at a height of 5 feet (give or take a foot) over unimproved ground.
The height standard is an attempt to measure air temperature at a level close to where people normally breathe. In locations where grass is common, thermometers are placed over grass. In Phoenix, the instruments are positioned over sandy, rocky soil.
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While the Weather Service’s official observation site for Phoenix is at the airport, it’s not the only one. That’s why you can sometimes find significant variations in temperatures relatively close to one another.
For example, if you look at the current observations page on the National Weather Service’s Phoenix website, you can find significant differences within the city, not to mention the surrounding area. A station near the former Phoenix Greyhound Park consistently reports 10-15 degrees higher than Sky Harbor Airport. The station at South Mountain Park is usually cooler than the one at the airport.
Their source? Ken Waters, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix.
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You would be surprised at what you get used to. We moved here from SW Washington in 2011. It was 103 the day we arrived at the end of August. We rushed to get indoors. Now I can work outside when it is over 100, have hiked into the Grand Canyon on 110 days, and enjoy it all. In the evening, when the temp gets down to 95 degrees we sit on the patio drinking a margarita and feel comfortable. It is usually 10 degrees cooler here than in Phoenix.
I will take 100 degrees with a dew point in the 40s like in Clovis NM vs 100 degrres with a dew point in the mid to upper 60s like here in Louisville KY any day...
10 ft from any hard surface is the spec for thermometers that most fail.
Yeah....I used to have a house down there between Phoenix and Tucson. Loved the weather. I was out and about when it was 115 degrees. Just drink lots of water and take shade breaks. It's much better than the humidity back east. And winters in Phoenix are just fantastic.
I did 38 Winters in Illinois, and 33 Summers so far out here. I would never live in the Midwest again.
Bad weather is like a bad marriage. And I've experienced both. And you don't realize just how bad both are until you have something better to compare them to.
Bad weather is like a bad marriage. And I've experienced both. And you don't realize just how bad both are until you have something better to compare them to.
Exactly....it's actually SUPPOSED to be hot in the summer.
Any more climate change debate, and the thread gets closed.
Why?
Seriously?
Please re-read this:
https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/bitog-standard-of-conduct.319568/
Read all of it. Don’t just “skim”. Pay particular attention to the prohibited topics. When you have finished, you can let me know.
Could you live without AC?
Warnings about "climate change" debate? I haven't seen any debating about that topic. All I see is people talking about the desert heat.
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