On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:47:17 -0700, Whata Fool wrote:

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:42:28 GMT, John F.C. wrote:

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:14:09 +0000 (UTC),
(Eric Swanson) wrote:
In article ,
says...
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:54:26 +0000 (UTC),
(Eric Swanson) wrote:

15 August 2007

RECORD EVENT REPORTS FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DATA

NEW PREVIOUS YEAR OF
LOCATION RECORD RECORD PREVIOUS

STATIONS SETTING (OR TIED) A NEW RECORD HIGH TEMPERATU

SEATTLE, WA 84 83 2002
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I just took this one at random and found that the record for Seattle
on August 15th was 96 degrees F set in 1942. And, I don't think it
was anywhere near 84 last Wednesday. (the high was 73 today)

Hey, I don't make this stuff up:

http://www.weather.gov/view/validPro...=RER&node=KSEW
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I'm at a loss to figure out what that is that you're referencing. If
you go to:
http://www.weather.com/weather/clima...m_ite=CityPage

you'll see that the average record high temperature for August in
Seattle is about 93. The hottest ever was in 1981 at 99.

Oh, that Seattle. :-)

That is an interesting page. Some of the lower record
high temperature for day of the year have stood since before 1900.

And there is a 12 degree difference between highest and
lowest day of the year record high during the month of August.

These two facts seem to make the day of the year high
temperature records in summer less remarkable.


I don't know what it does to Eric's confidence.
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I also noticed some of those anomalies leading me to think that some
of those record highs in the 80's aren't correct.
Most of the cities' record highs for a month such as August I think
are much closer than that. I used Tulsa's record highs for the month
earlier. Hottest August day was 115 in 1936 and the lowest high for
the month was 106 set in 1935.
Mind you, that's 9 degrees difference so, perhaps, that 12
differential above isn't that odd after all.