Yes, this is a real current temperature presented by NOAA/NWS for the forecast of Addison, TX near Dallas.
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I checked the airport ASOS at Dallas Addison Airport (KADS) and sure enough, the reading is there:
Source: http://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KADS.html
This is likely an ASOS station failure, which is a fairly common occurance, like I pointed out in Honolulu a couple of years ago:
More on NOAA’s FUBAR Honolulu “record highs” ASOS debacle, PLUS finding a long lost GISS station
I find it amazing they don’t have a simple data sanity check built into the NOAA data dissemination system. This wouldn’t even pass in Death Valley. How many other incorrect temperatures get logged but never noticed because they aren’t so absurd as to be impossible?
h/t to D.B. Stealey and Moonbattery
We heard they do things BIG in Texas.
That temp is enough to drive a bloke to join the Big Climate Victimology Club-http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/global_victims/
Yes, but it’s a dry heat with the RH at 5%, the heat index is only at 139F. Why complain?
I suspect visibility would be less than 10 miles because of the heat haze. And dry heat..?
Briefly, as it’s overcast and was raining an hour earlier. Very unpleasant conditions, though if you sat around in a towel and splashed water scented with aromatic oils onto any rocks that were nearby you would have a sauna. If a sauna is not your game you could cook eggs on the rocks [or the airport tarmac].
They just got their Celsius mixed up with their Fahrenheit (71C = 160F). When will the U.S. join us all on planet earth and switch to metric?
And GISS homogenisation will bring all other surrounding station up to well over 150C !
“Chad Wozniak says:
October 16, 2013 at 6:09 pm
“false high temp readings” – please pardon my sloppy typing.”
No, Chad, I won’t pardon your sloppy typing. I spend quite a bit of time looking up words like “metar” (thanks, Mr. Albright) because I think maybe it’s a word I just don’t know and I don’t want to misunderstand the point. It’s not the typing that causes the problem. It’s the failure to take a peek at what you wrote before posting. I noticed Michael Mann doesn’t know the difference between looser and loser. I want to think our posters and our well paid scientists are educated, but if we can’t communicate properly, it doesn’t matter what we know. It gets lost in the “sloppy typing”. Save yourself a post… proof the first one.
john another, it’s my understanding the those “healthy trees” at Mendenhall Glacier are dead. They are carbon dating them to see how long they’ve been dead. Was there a news report saying they were alive? If so, who reported this? Alternatively, was this a case of “sloppy reading”?
Please, folks, let’s up our game.
I apologize for my rant. No, I’m not a teacher. I’m also not a scientist, so I struggle with some of what I’m trying to learn at WUWT. Please, have pity on me.
TimTheToolMan says:
October 16, 2013 at 7:01 pm
Truthseeker says: October 16, 2013 at 2:54 pm
and charles the moderator says: October 16, 2013 at 2:03 pm
But it’s a dry heat.
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Yeah, maybe these things don’t show up on Infra Red …
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What are we supposed to use? Harsh language?
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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure…
Noticed it’s the reading at Addison Airport – did somebody park an aeroplane with the jetpipes pointing at the weather station perhaps?
Government shutdown causes runaway global warming in Texas…
160 degrees and 5% relative humidity is completely normal in Texas at this time of the year. The new normal, I mean. Is innovation not wonderful?
I was going to say “make sure to get a screen shot, but it looks like you did, lol. Done that myself a number of times when they had some outrageous temp listed for our area.
Gee, I wonder why the ozone action police did not arrive on the scene and send out warnings via taxpayer funded electronic alert signs.
Goldie says:
October 16, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Not knowing much about US Geography, I thought there was a Hell, Texas. Turns out its in Michigan. So no hell in Texas……until now!
We also have a Paradise, Mi. So you can literally go from Hell to Paradise in a day.
Not a software problem. Only one reading effected, plus 160F is FS for some thermometers.
obviouisly, the other 17 or so temperatures listed need to be adjusted higher, Then graphed, then used to scare children. (I want to be an NOAA employee, I’ve heard there’s been a recent opening.)
Obviously, I need typing practice.
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Sometimes there is an error in the raw data.
Here the error is obvious because it is wildly outside the real readings surrounding it.
Sort of like the climate models don’t match the reality surrounding them.
I had to email Accuweather with a screenshot one very blah August evening in 2010 when the current temps recorded in my hometown were 15°C, with a ‘Real Feel’ forecast of -129°C. It was a below average August (nothing new in the UK), but not cold enough for my blood to freeze upon stepping outside.
@Jeff Crowder
Bank thermometers aren’t typically sited anywhere near correctly. They tend to read way high in direct sunlight, is my general observation. I just happen to commute at the peak temperature time of day and my car is usually spot on with the day’s official high, if I subtract 1ºF for pavement heating. If I’m in town, my car usually reads 3 – 5 ºF higher than the day’s official high, sometimes as much as 7 – 8 ºF higher. But, I’m sure there must be some explanation for that other than UHI.
“We’re gonna die! We’re gonna die!”
Perhaps the weather station was on fire and the reading was correct.
As a Texan this amuses me to think of people in Dallas seeing this and thinking “yeesh, gonna be hot”, without going “ok that’s impossible” due to how absurd the weather can be there.
I dropped a note off here a year or so ago about my local apt KFHR having a failed temp sensor on its ASOS. It was reading about 20c low. It took several calls to get the apt manager to initiate a fix. Who knows whether it went into the data stream.
Is that a dry heat? 🙂