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<font size="+1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Ted, <br>
<br>
What is your explanation for the "behavior" of the thermometer at<br>
the Pullman-Airport location? I've been wondering lately if it is out
of<br>
calibration by quite a lot. I really doubt that, though.<br>
<br>
I don't know where it is sited over there and which peculiarities of
site<br>
might be driving it to what seem to me to be extra-low temperatures.<br>
<br>
For example, is it in a topographic sink into which higher-density cold<br>
air is draining and collecting, only to get colder still by rapid energy<br>
loss on clear nights due to long-wave radiation?<br>
<br>
I'm startled because I don't know why the two thermometers outside<br>
my house on Indian Hills Drive in Moscow run 10-20 degrees warmer<br>
than the PullCow site during these deep cold episodes?<br>
<br>
Ideas?<br>
<br>
Sam Scripter<br>
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Ted Moffett wrote:
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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:</div>
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