Gotta love this, with all the hullabaloo over a possible new world temperature record in Death Valley, a logging town in Washington has pre-empted them.
Hilariously, the reading of 139 degrees F is listed as “suspect” as it should be, but at 133 degrees F in the next reading (just under the Death Valley all time record of 134F) it is listed as “OK”.
See the screencap:
Source: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=otx&sid=KTLW1&num=72&raw=0
h/t to reader Dave Thompson.
Obviously it is an equipment malfunction. I wonder how many other weather stations will go on the fritz in our upcoming heat wave.
The old record dates back to 10 july 1913, the pregreenhouse time. You would expect this record to be broken by a landslide
The NWS Quality Control column is meaningless. Around here, Fairchild AFB shows “light rain” or “drizzle” about 20% of the time in bone-dry summer. It’s obviously an error, but it’s always “OK”.
“Obviously it is an equipment malfunction.”
Or a prank.
We are going to need someone on the ground in Death Valley during this heat wave to verify the temps.
The forecast is for record breaking temperatures but I imagine the warmists would dearly love to talk about a new all-time world record in Death Valley right now.
Even if the temp has to be fiddled with somehow.
They could not find the low temperature recording at KCI (Kansas City) yesterday–it read 35 degrees F. They did “fix” it somehow.
Oh, ans PS–it was not listed as a new record that I saw, either.
MattN says: June 28, 2013 at 5:54 pm
With a dewpoint of 120F, that wouldn’t be a dry heat. I wonder what the heat index translates to?
Millions of degrees, per Algore. There’s a cave in Mexico with giant gypsum crystals that runs over 130°F with 100% humidity. If you breathe that for more than a few minutes, you can drown because your lungs are cooler than the dew point.
https://www.google.com/search?q=crystal+cave+mexico
click on the images link
Bob Diaz says:
June 28, 2013 at 6:57 pm
It should be no surprise that every now and then we hear of some record high some place. If the records go back only 100 to 150 years and there are 365 days in a year, every day represents 1 chance out of 100 to 150 that a record high may be broken. Given that there are 365 days of the year, record highs should be broken on average 2 to 4 times per year.
Brilliant, Bob. [/sarc]
Climate Change innit
Sorry, I’m not current on my electronics. But if I remember correctly. the cuttoff for the old style electronics (silicone based), not microcomputer was air conditioning after 80 F. With the introduction of microcomputers, the temperature went up but was biased after 90 F. In other words, errors were inherent in the output. So unless we are using old fashioned tube electronics, (could be cooled by open air conduction), electronics is unreliable for the accurate measurement of temperature. In old fashioned, call it steam-punk, electronics, they used slide resistors to compensate for the temperature variations to keep steady signal.
That was in the 1960’s, that I was trained in electronics, basically all that has changed, is the size of the packaging. Back then, when It got that hot, one went to the lakes, business stopped in towns, but resumed after dark.
Among all of its previously-noted magical qualities, CO2 now apparently has the ability to affect the jet stream. Amazing stuff, really.
Whoa Whoa Whoa!!! Let’s not be so hasty here guys!!! They never said the data was spurious. With a little homogenization, I’m sure the data will find its way into the next IPCC report, somewhere.
I have been watching the forecasts and comparing them to the observed readings the next day using Weather.com. If memory serves, Death Valley was forecast, yesterday, to reach 128, but topped out at 112. Phoenix was forecast to reach 119, but topped out at 116. Phoenix set their all time high yesterday anyway. However, I will check the numbers again a in a week or two to see if they were adjusted, which happens sometimes.
Perhaps Kettle Falls is hosting a local version of Burning Mann and they placed the effigy next to the temperature sensor?
Well the global all time official air Temperature record in the shade, somewhere in North Africa, I think circa 1928, was about 136 deg. F about 57.8 deg. C.. I heard many reports of US troops during the Iraq war out in full gear in 134 deg. Temps. No doubt, those desert surface Temperatures at those times go well over + 60 deg. C.
Well that is wonderful, because at that Temperature the earth radiates at 1.8 times the rate it does at “the global mean” of 288 K. And the center of the spectral peak of that LWIR emission moves from 10.1 microns, down to 8.74 microns; even further away from the CO2 15 micron band. Also the desert air is so dry, that even water vapor absorption is minimal. That 8.74 micron peak is also below the 9.6 micron Ozone band.. Well that might be a tossup, going from one edge of the ozone to the other. But the emission is definitely better placed in the “atmospheric window.”
So we should all rejoice in these “scorching” high Temps; I can almost hear the LWIR emission sizzling out to space at a near catastrophic rate; we might all freeze before this unprecedented (since last month) heat wave, is over !
The vast bulk of the atmosphere is composed of N2 and O2, non-radiative non-GHGs. They are unable to dispose of sensible heat except through evaporative loss from the top of the atmosphere. Only GHGs can radiate energy to space. Hence, in their absence, the atmosphere would heat until it could “boil” away enough mass to counterbalance solar irradiation.
Hence GHGs are cooling agents which preserve atmospheric mass. The Warmist (and Luke-warmist) positions are 180° wrong. As usual.
jim says:
June 29, 2013 at 7:08 am
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I used to do level S qualification. The temperature range was +125 to -50 C. The automotive/industrial spec is usually from +75 to -40 C. Commercial products are commonly tested from +40 to -25 C. Modern Test and Measurement instrumentation is designed to be accurate over a fairly wide range, depending on application. The products are architected to be immune to temperature effects. This is often achieved by the use of thermometers built into the devices along with temperature compensating circuitry. Built in calibration curves smooth out any remaining effects. With the advent of modern digital technology, much of which is off-the-shelf, these techniques are easy and cheap to implement. Even your laptop monitors internal temps and changes its behavior accordingly. BTW, there are some high power devices that have a top operating range of +200 C, pretty dang amazing considering that the annealing temp of semiconductors is +175 C.
The all-time record high temperature in Death Valley was set in 1913: 134 degrees F. (Interesting that this was 100 years ago, before the alarmies claim AGW began).
Within my own lifetime (I’m 65), Death Valley has reached 130 at least six times, and 129 at least once almost every year. So if the temp there goes to 129 or 130, that will be nothing new, the alarmies aside..
Death Valley isn’t the hottest place on the planet, either. In 1946 the temp reached 136 F. at a station in Libya, and temps of over 140 have been reported (not always verified) in the Danakil Depression in the Horn of Africa, which is over 500 feet below sea level – lower than Death Valley’s -282 and at about 14 north latitude, versus about 36 north for Death Valley. So one would expect the Danakil to be considerably hotter than Death Valley, even without benefit of (imaginary) AGW.
polistra says:
June 29, 2013 at 2:38 am
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Spokane has notoriously difficult to predict weather. When I was stationed there, I worked (and partied) with the meteorologists pretty regularly. They would sometimes whine about the areas chaotic summertime weather. I spent a few nights running around base firing up generators and correcting problems caused by ground strikes from thunderstorms that cropped up out of nowhere. I kind of miss those days 🙁
“It’s obviously an error, but it’s always ‘OK’.” [Polistra 2:38 AM]
LOL.
“… I was stationed there… .” [Desert Yote]
A grateful American says, “Thank you.”
And it’s STILL 139 F at this hour. Where’s some Coke swilling polar bears to mount a rescue effort of all those poor people in Kettle Falls?
I love the 133 degrees and the ‘OK”. By the way it reached 140 degree’s at 2:37 pm today. They list it as ‘suspect’ though. Darn.
139 degrees with 63% RH? Good luck with that.
Did someone move the thermometer into the sauna?
Even funnier: At 8:37am this morning it was 130 degrees and raining. OUCH.