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Old August 20th 07, 11:48 PM posted to sci.environment,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.meteorology
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Default U.S. Record Temperatures, 15 August 2007

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

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Thanks for that. That would explain why there are so many new hot
records. Some of the sites are relatively new.