[Newsbot]

Title: Australia sees the highest temperature ever recorded in a major city with Adelaide reaching 46.6 degrees
Category: Weather
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2019-01-25 05:12:03

[uwish]

BS that is not the highest recorded temp in a city. I was in the middle east about 6 years ago, and the temp hit 49...

[DrCaleb]

uwish uwish:

BS that is not the highest recorded temp in a city. I was in the middle east about 6 years ago, and the temp hit 49...

That's not what they wrote, is it?

$1:

Adelaide sweltered through the highest temperature ever recorded by a major Australian city on Thursday,

Literally, the first sentence.

[BartSimpson]

The title of the story is misleading and would lead a reader to believe this is the highest temp ever recorded in a major city anywhere.

And that would be wrong because I would assert that Hiroshima and Nagasaki share that record.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The title of the story is misleading and would lead a reader to believe this is the highest temp ever recorded in a major city anywhere.

Most people read the article in order to be better informed, before commenting. And when the title is read in the BBC's section on Australia, it makes perfect sense.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world/australia

[PluggyRug]

And?

[raydan]

But that was a dry heat?

[DrCaleb]

raydan raydan:

But that was a dry heat?

With all the wildlife dying for lack of water, and the record number of fires they have, I imagine it's very very dry heat.

[BartSimpson]

I'd love to see the weather station that picked up the temp. Is it in the middle of an asphalt parking lot or some other heat sink?

Also, the current forecast for Adelaide is considerably less dramatic than the Guardian is reporting...

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/au/14 ... a/adelaide

[BartSimpson]

I'm seeing a spike in temps yesterday to 113F but that was just a spike and not any part of a prolonged wave of unusual heat.

[llama66]

It's an awkwardly written article for sure. I looked at Weather Underground, and they report a station Adelaide International had picked up temperatures of ~45C yesterday.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/mo ... ate/2019-1

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

I'd love to see the weather station that picked up the temp. Is it in the middle of an asphalt parking lot or some other heat sink?

On mountains, actually.



http://www.bom.gov.au/sa/observations/adelaidemap.shtml

And:

$1:

The two observation stations have been operating in tandem for some months. This is done so the Bureau can compare the data and identify differences in the observations for forecast and long-term climate comparisons. The Kent Town station will continue operating for a further 12 months or more, after which it will be closed permanently.

http://www.bom.gov.au/weather-services/ ... move.shtml

Exactly the reason I have told you, time and again, why weather data must be manipulated.

[raydan]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

raydan raydan:

But that was a dry heat?

With all the wildlife dying for lack of water, and the record number of fires they have, I imagine it's very very dry heat.

I saw that they're having major droughts down there... but I also posted my comment because of the 45C heat indexes we get around here.

[N_Fiddledog]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Most people read the article in order to be better informed, before commenting.

Hang on...aren't you the guy who's always on his soapbox virtue signalling about how far you are beyond endorsing "Click Bait" titles?

And now you want to make some snide comment about how people need to ignore them and read the article before complaining about how they were tricked to click?

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Exactly the reason I have told you, time and again, why weather data must be manipulated.

I disagree. Let the chips fall where they may and record and report the temperatures as they are.

That way we (the people) can identify the weather stations that are obvious outliers for ourselves.

But let's say you do manipulate data for a reason then be sure to simultaneously publish the original data so people can see it and so others can replicate and understand your manipulations.