Yes, this is a real current temperature presented by NOAA/NWS for the forecast of Addison, TX near Dallas.
![160-in-addison-tx-national-weather-service[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/160-in-addison-tx-national-weather-service1.jpg?quality=83)
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
@Peter:
If we switch to Metric now, it gives NOAA and all the other AGW proponents a means to further adjust the historic temps as the values are “converted” from traditional units to SI.
I don’t have enough hands to facepalm as much as I should.
john robertson says:
October 16, 2013 at 2:36 pm
However I expect Seth the bore at AP to proclaim “New Record High”.
He might, but it still doesn’t beat the 212°F over Lake Michigan a couple of years ago. I don’t suppose they ever got around to removing that erroneous set either.
Howcome the errors are never unrealistically low temps?