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Comments
According to Weather.com, it is currently 108 degrees in Aberdeen. Is that the hottest day ever for Aberdeen?
FR: No idea. I don't know of any long-term weather database for Aberdeen, and we have no way of knowing how accurate or well-maintained that station is. The official record high temperature for Maryland is 109.
Posted by: Tom S | July 7, 2010 2:31 PM
My thermometer says 62...
Posted by: Jim Bob | July 7, 2010 3:23 PM
I have a question that relates to temperature:
When stationing a thermometer at one's house, where is the best place to put it. I'm struggling with one of my own. I cannot find a place to put it where the sun will not, at some point during the day, hit it directly. When that happens, the ridiculous thing rises to like 114 degrees. Is it my thermometer? Is it my placement? What kinds of thermometers are used for the "official" readings?
FR: This may help: http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/PWS_-_Siting
Posted by: BaltiJo | July 7, 2010 3:58 PM
When I look at the NWS Sterling page, I see that there is a station reporting at Ft. Meade. That station consistently reports temps around 8 degrees or more cooler than anywhere else around it - does anyone know why? As of now it's 101 at BWI and only 93 at Ft. Meade just < 10 miles away. I can't think of any geographical reason, and even being semi-rural doesn't make sense as it's cooler than other outlying stations too.
Posted by: Bryan | July 7, 2010 4:22 PM
I'm a Baltimore gal working in Michigan. It's 95 degrees out here and people are wilting! It rarely gets this hot out here so everyone is asking how we take this kind of heat in Baltimore! I tell them it is not the heat, it is the humidity (lol).
FR: Actually, in Baltimore we say, "It's not the heat, it's the humility."
Posted by: Susan Moscareillo | July 7, 2010 4:39 PM
Climate change is what it's called. After such an extreme winter and now clearly a records setting summer it's not typical weather. People still want to doubt it because it's hard to believe in "global warming," after 20+ inches of snow for the third straigh week. Truth is it's climate change, like I said in February, get used to this sort of thing.
Posted by: Ted | July 7, 2010 5:06 PM