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Originally Posted by Lithium
MAX TEMP : 29.1 °C MAX TEMP. DATE Jun.9 2008 MIN TEMP : 5.4 °C MIN TEMP. DATE Jun.1 2008
Halifax, NS.
June 1, 2008 to July 15, 2008.
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And if you read my post you would see that I don't really care what the website says, because the channel itself during the day with the live reporting temperature has had far higher temperatures than that. You see we check it quite often so we don't dress our kids to bake or freeze when we go out to the park etc. I quite honestly don't much care if anonymous joe in front of computer believes me or not, but that is what the channel itself has said (not to mention the local meterologist in his forecasts I listen to every morning).
Btw depending on what part of the city you are in you get the temperature from a different source. Some get the Shearwater temp and some get the International airport temp. There is often a number of degrees different. The temperature can vary widely across the metro area just as the precipitation can. This is of course due to a rather large body of water called the Atlantic ocean that even being a few miles inland can change things significantly. For example as I looked up right now the Halifax Airport is 17 deg and Shearwater Airport is 19 deg. It stands to reason that say downtown might have a different temperature yet and somewhere over by Kearney Lake will have a different temp. So the official search you made pulls up the Shearwater jetty as all the searches seem to...not the Halifax airport or other areas of the city that may in fact and very likely be hotter. Like say were my car and other people's cars drive around and our houses may be. The thermometer on my car seems to work as everyday as I drive into work downtown the local meteorologist says "and downtown right now it's X deg and my car seems to agree". That temp of course does not necessarily agree with the weather channel given it's from a different location.
The website may be the official source you used but keep in mind the official Halifax source for that website search is in an area that experiences significantly different weather than other areas of the metro area. In fact, all areas of the metro area can experience widely different weather experiences. This is especially true with precipitation and type of precipitation. Where I live we get copious amounts of snow dumped on us every winter whereas downtown a mere 15 km away doesn't experience nearly as much (rule of thumb the past 4 years has been we get 2-2.5 times the amount of snow).
You may also want to see the days at that 30 deg mark from this tracking site (environment canada). And couple that with the humidity that is tracked at the same time. Mean humidities for the day at about 80% or so with that 30 deg weather. heck feel free to click on last years data and see the days over 30 deg as well seeing as it was a general statement about those type of temperatures beign reached in the area every year.
http://halifax.weatherstats.ca/2months
The point still very much stands. Similar temps are seen in the Halifax area but with typically higher humidities making things worse. For example you can notice the humidex for today which is quite a mild day on the thermometer is about 30 deg. Humidex being a measure of what it "feels" like. So take a 30ish deg day on the thermometer with 80% humidity and use your imagination.