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Originally Posted by Lithium
The statement I was replying to said "Early June to mid-July" scroll up, you'll see.  |
I see that. You're right.
Just keep in mind that you're arguing with someone who is living there and that temperatures are recorded at airports (at least most of the time) and not in the middle of the city where people are actually inhabiting. It gets a fair bit warmer where there are engines running and buildings blocking wind from removing the hot air as opposed to the generally open and flat areas that airports tend to be.
I listen to QR77 pretty much all day and I have a thermometer in my truck. The temperatures announced on QR all day long are always higher than the ones that are announced as official on the evening news. The evening news takes the official recording at the airport but QR takes theirs in the downtown. My job keeps me around the core all day, so the ones I hear on QR are generally more accurate than the ones I get on the news at night.
Sometimes the difference is significant. 5, 6, 7 degrees warmer in the city than at the airport.
This used to happen when I lived in Rome. On every corner there's a farmacia (pharmacy) and they all have a neon sign outside their shop with a tempertature gauge on it. It'd regularly show high 30s, but the newspaper the next day would peg the official high in the low 30s, or even in the high 20s. I can tell you will complete certainty that being at ground level in the middle of town with hundreds of thousands of cars and mopeds buzzing around, that the temperatures in the farmacia signs were correct. High 30s. I don't care what the newspapers say.