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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Trusting Temperatures...

So after some careful consideration and obvious inconsistencies, I have decided that yahoo weather is not a good resource for temperatures here in Fes. Yesterday they were reporting that the high of the day was 88'F with a low of 58'F. At the same time, the current temperature in the afternoon was listed as 105'F. How you can have a high of 88 with a current temp of 105 is absolutely beyond me! Additionally, at 10pm we had just cooled off to 88'F and I would be shocked if it actually dropped as low as 58'F at any point during the night seeing as I was awake sweating through most of it.

Even more amusing though is the weather reports the list the actual temperature and then the 'feels like' temperature. When humidity and wind chill are factors then I would agree there is frequently a difference. HOWEVER, here in Fes when the thermometer is reading 105 it FEELS like 105, not like a cheerful 102 as some sites were gleefully reporting! Besides how do they even determine what temperature it feels like? Weather.com lists today's forcast as partly cloudy. I would like to know where they are looking, because where I am standing the skies are completely blue, the sun is blazing brilliantly and its hot! If there were A cloud in the sky it wouldn't make a difference; ONE cloud does not mean that it is partly cloudy!

1 comment:

David said...

NINA!! 4 DAYS!! TOOOOOOO LONG WITHOUT A BLOG POST!!!