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Eric Swanson · **U.S. Record Temperatures, 31 August 2007**

In article , says...

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:11:42 +0000 (UTC),
(Eric Swanson) wrote:

In article ,
says...
In other words, I personally feel that you're wasting your time.

I suppose you are correct, science is a waste of time these days.

Posting temperature values for a particular day of year for
a given location without posting the temperature value of the day
before and the day after is not science.

I post data, but I'm not trying to analyze that data. The analysis
can't be done until months or years later.

What he was saying is that there are days of the year which
haven't recorded very high temperature values in the short data set
that exists, and that makes it not only easy, but also, _expected_,
that a record will be set for that day of year.

There
are so many idiots like you posting that there's no point in attempting
ANY serious discussion.

I thought he presented a reasonable explanation of why
a day of the year record is not always big news.

One day's records are not significant. Many days of data over a large
area become interesting.

For example, there were quite a few records
set that day, yet, you pick just one and ignore the fact that the date
was the last day of the month, which is at the end of the summer and the
beginning of Fall and cooler weather.

There is still more than two weeks of astronomical summer,
but the temperatures can lag by quite a bit.

Climatological summer ended 31 August.

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Eric Swanson --- E-mail address: e_swanson(at)skybest.com :-)
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