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There must be a cold front going right through Morrissey Boulevard
By adamg on Mon, 10/07/2013 - 2:18pm
How else to explain the 15-degree difference in the temperatures on the home pages of boston.com and bostonglobe.com right now?
H/t Chris Walton.
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Have you looked at a weather map?
There is a cold front moving in and creating a line of storms to our west. It is possible that there is a 15F difference between two fairly close locations (one being downtown and the other at the Airport, perhaps?)
Time for Zombie Summer to end.
More likely a technical fault.
I noticed the discrepancy a little earlier, too, so I wondered if it was because of a seabreeze.
Considering that the wind has been strongly out of the south at KBOS (not a seabreeze) since at least mid-morning, it's not that. Also, as the front of which you speak is still, as of 15:49, still somewhere between the NY border and Syracuse, it's probably not that either.
As much as I'd like to chalk it up to a microclimate event of early June proportions (when it can easily be something like 80 at KBED and 59 at KBOS at the same time), it's almost certainly just a technical fault at boston.com and bostonglobe.com.
I do agree, however, that it's time for Zombie Summer to end.
The correct temperature is
The correct temperature is only available to subscribers.
No freebies
I suppose that's what you get when you pay for a subscription and get bostonglobe.com, eh?
Sources
According to boston.com it has been 60 degrees since about 8 a.m. Their source must be broken.
must be citing the more
must be citing the more conservative weather reports of the herald.
Could it be different sources
Could it be different sources for the temperatures? Has anyone noticed how the TV weather would report similar temps all over the Boston area, except for Norwood. I don't know where Norwood's thermometer is, but it's always noticeably cooler than anywhere else on the map.
Norwood
I'm sure a weather junkie can tell you exactly, but I believe Norwood's weather station is in a valley which is why it's always cooler than most.
Global Warming
The Globe needs to keep every liberal special interest group possible, including the global warming crowd. The Norwood discrepancy probably has to do with poorly placed temperature stations, either there or elsewhere. Much of the "warming" comes from poorly placed temperature stations giving artificially high readings.
"The USHCN is one of the main metrics used to gauge the temperature changes in the United States. The first wide scale effort to address siting issues, Watts, (2009), a collated photographic survey, showed that approximately 90% of USHCN stations were compromised by encroachment of urbanity in the form of heat sinks and sources, such as concrete, asphalt, air conditioning system heat exchangers, roadways, airport tarmac, and other issues. This finding was backed up by an August 2011 U.S. General Accounting Office investigation and report titled: Climate Monitoring: NOAA Can Improve Management of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network" -- http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/29/press-releas...
Please submit links
To the peer-reviewed literature on the subject.
A no-nothing blog is not sufficient scientific evidence.
By "global warming crowd" you mean "reality-based community", as in "the vast majority of scientists do not dispute the data, the analyses, nor the reality that they all point toward human activity as the cause of rapidly escalating planetary temperatures".
The answer is very simple
The boston.com weather editor's thermometer is mounted outside the office window, while the Boston Globe weather editor's thermometer is sitting inside on the desk.