[Vision2020] Winnipeg 26 F. Above Moscow Last Night 5 AM?

[Sam Scripter]

Ted,

What is your explanation for the "behavior" of the thermometer at
the Pullman-Airport location?  I've been wondering lately if it is out of
calibration by quite a lot.  I really doubt that, though.

I don't know where it is sited over there and which peculiarities of site
might be driving it to what seem to me to be extra-low temperatures.

For example, is it in a topographic sink into which higher-density cold
air is draining and collecting, only to get colder still by rapid energy
loss on clear nights due to long-wave radiation?

I'm startled because I don't know why the two thermometers outside
my house on Indian Hills Drive in Moscow run 10-20 degrees warmer
than the PullCow site during these deep cold episodes?

Ideas?

Sam Scripter

Ted Moffett wrote:
> While listening to 990 AM CBC Radio One from Winnipeg (off the 
> airwaves, not Internet), Manitoba last night at about 5 AM PDST (3 AM 
> in Winnipeg), they announced the temperature as 0 degrees (32 
> Fahrenheit), in Celsius, given Canada is in the modern scientific age 
> and officially uses the metric system.  I had just checked an outdoor 
> thermometer (near Joel/Cornwall between Moscow and Troy) and the 
> temperature was 6 F. or minus 14.4 C. 
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> At first I thought I must have heard the radio announcer wrong, given 
> Winnipeg has colder average temperatures for this date in October than 
> Moscow, Idaho.  So I checked, and indeed at 3 AM in Winnipeg it was 0 
> Celsius, 26 degree F. warmer than the outdoor thermometer I checked:
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> http://winnipeg.weatherstats.ca/
> City <http://www.weatherstats.ca/>]
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