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NannyP
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sean Downsizer Moderator
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dougal
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 07 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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NannyP wrote: |
In the sun it's 48.7C this afternoon...
The thermometer is digital, and as my husband pointed out, it was in a very specific place. Up against the front wall of our south facing house.
The normal mercury thermometer in the shade at the back on the wall was showing 30C. |
Accepted that it was very *hot*, but thermometers "in the sun" don't tell you much. A shiny probe would give a very different reading to a matt black one!
The usual temperature quoted by meteorologists and weather forecasters is the *air* temperature - which is measured in the shade, (for official purposes inside a standardised, white painted, louvre-sided box called a "Stevenson screen"). It even needs to be mounted a standard height above the ground... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_screen
There must have been about 5cm of rain here last night, (most of it falling in two half hour deluges), but its been really lovely today.
(And no, I don't have a standardised rain guage... ) |
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NannyP
Joined: 26 Aug 2005 Posts: 118 Location: Vienne, France
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NannyP
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NannyP
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sean Downsizer Moderator
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NannyP
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sean Downsizer Moderator
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