On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:54:05 -0500, Harold Brooks
wrote:

The record was set at the Seattle National Weather Service Forecast
Office (station KSEW), northeast of the downtown Seattle near Lake
Washington. The text of the record statement was

SXUS76 KSEW 160132
RERSEW

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
0629 PM PDT WED AUG 15 2007

...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT SEATTLE WFO...

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 84 DEGREES WAS SET AT SEATTLE WFO
TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 83 SET IN 2002.

The WFO site record only goes back to 1986. The weather channel page is
referring to the Seattle-Tacoma airport (KSEA), south of downtown, about
12 miles away from KSEW, with a record going back to 1950.
Harold

And do you know if this site is used in the global average
temperature data set?

For those born yesterday, and for sites that have only been
around for 20 years, 90 would be a hot day.

A day out in a wheat field with a scythe when the
temperature is 108 would unclog some brain cells, sitting in air
conditioned rooms in front of a computer searching google really
gets away from nature and reality.

Thanks for the explanation of the apparent error.