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forecasts
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:57 pm
by nlafrance3
The forecasts on the weather ticker at the top is a bad representation of Edmonton climate. I think thats taken at the international airport which is in the middle of nowhere.
www.weather.ca always has our temperature as a couple degree warmer everytime I look at it. Sometimes it will say -4c on here and it will be like +4c on weather.ca. I don't like the ticker, it makes us look way colder then we are!
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:30 pm
by Jay-Admin
It's the same for Kelowna. It's taken at the airport which is always a couple or more degrees colder than where I am.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:30 pm
by Alchris
Yes: But it makes us look tougher;
Allen
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:26 pm
by nucci60
That ticker is correct for boston. Man it's FREEZING!!
Vancouver
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:34 pm
by Wes North Van
Our temps are taken at the airport too and it is the coldest spot in the summer and one of the coldest in the winter. Our airport sits out on an island in the ocean and at the end of the Fraser river where all the cold air from the north comes down through the Fraser Canyon I am usually 2 to 3 degrees warmer and sometimes during an artic outflow 4 to 5 degrees different.
I see the east is experiencing winter. Even in Charleston they are only 5C which is almost the same as at my place, 4.6C
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:29 pm
by nlafrance3
-18 international airport at 9pm.
-9 at my house.
Is that weird?
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:30 pm
by Laaz
It is cold here tonight. Not freezing, but very cold for this area.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:30 pm
by nlafrance3
-10c for boston.....psh. Is that as cold as you guys can take? haha just kidding man.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:14 am
by nucci60
we only see low temps like that once or twice a year in Boston and vicinity. I am about thirty miles north of Boston, but still on the coast, so we stay warmer than inland areas. I am in zone 6 and Boston is 6b because of it's density of buildings.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:32 pm
by Estiva
The official temperature for metro Milwaukee is taken at Mitchell International Airport. Because of it being about 2 1/2 miles from Lake Michigan, official winter temps tend to be slightly warmer than alot of the metro area.
The big differnce can be in the spring and summer where it can be 90F a several miles inland and 75F at the airport. Our official average high for July (79F) makes us seem cooler than we really usually are in the summer.
I guess putting the offical thermometer in the middle of a downtown heat island would be deceiving as well.
LOW SO FAR THIS WINTER.........................6F
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:18 am
by Barrie
Most weather stations are located at the closest airports to city centers. Since air traffic needs weather info, it only makes sense to locate them there. Our local reporting station is about 20 miles away and is quite likely the coolest region in all seasons. This is so in most cases, since airports are in wide open areas with little or no protective means.
BTW nlafrance3 ... "the international airport which is in the middle of nowhere." ... Edmonton IS in the middle of nowhere! hahaha.
Cheers, Barrie.
Current temps. on Salt Spring Island
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:23 pm
by banana joe
9:30 pm here with a temp. of 8 C. Joe