<div>I have heard of the temperature mechanism you discuss, but I have no knowledge of the details of the airport temperature readings. Weather.com gives the past two nights temperatures for Moscow at 12 and 10 F., new record lows by a wide margin. But I had 6 F. and 7 F those two nights, though I do live in a "draw" as some call it, so cold air might settle into the area where my thermometer is located, as you described.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Sam Scripter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moscowsam@verizon.net">moscowsam@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffcc"><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></font></font><br>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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