The local weather forecast shows us to have a low of 10F this am. It's now 4F. The forecast I looked at last night had a low of 15F. I've seen the numbers off a couple of degrees, but not 10! And the weather station is about 4 miles from my house, so I know it should be pretty close, but the variation on their own site is unusual. To be clear, the site is now reporting numbers different from the forecast on the site, Weather Underground.
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Gambles
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While on the subject of weather, several years ago Readers Digest did an article on weather men (or ladies). Did you know that anybody can call themselves a weather man and you don't need a schooled degree? Most weather predictors that you see on TV don't have one, they are just there for their looks.
Even in my area, which is relatively flat, there are lots of "micro-climates", temps can vary a lot. Notice this as I'm driving into work, sometime big difference from my rural area to the big city with variations in between. Where we used to live there was a place along the road where the temp would drop almost 5 degrees. I always the gates of hell were somewhere around there, sucking all the heat from the area.
Weather guy on our local radio station is a locomotive engineer, whose hobby is meteorology. 20 some years ago, he went to the radio station, and offered to supply weather forecasts every morning. If they're more accurate than the "official" forecasts, hire me. They were, and they did.
A few days ago the weather gurus reported that Watertown, NY had the nations coldest temp at a minus 37 degrees f.
At my farm the actual temp was a cold minus 21 degrees f. My place is about 45 miles north east of Watertown and about the same altitude. I find it hard to believe that we could be 16 degrees warmer.
At my farm the actual temp was a cold minus 21 degrees f. My place is about 45 miles north east of Watertown and about the same altitude. I find it hard to believe that we could be 16 degrees warmer.
47fivewindow
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Borrow a motorcycle on a cool day. The difference in temp. as you go up and down hills and past shady spots will be surprising.
Al Baker(pumpman)
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It was 7 here 13 miles from lake mich. Much colder than we were told. Yesterday it was 9 degrees warmer than they said it would be.
flying belgian
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"they are just there for their looks." and some do look fine.
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