What is the temperature in this location?

[moose]

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[Moridin]

I am now officially phobic of Mondays.

 

[neutrino]

We almost hit 43, that's Celcius, yesterday. Comfy, isn't it?

 

[Evo]

I'm so glad that I don't live in a desert.

High's in the 70's and lows in the 50's all week.

 

[arunma]

Yeah...I grew up in Minnesota, so to me, there's no such thing as too hot.

What really sucks, weather-wise, is that ended up going to grad school in the upper mid-west as well (though at least it's a few degrees south of where I used to live). Don't get me wrong, I love my new school in every other respect, but it just occurred to me the other day that grad school was my chance to move somewhere warmer, and I didn't even apply anywhere in the South! Oh well...

 

[check]

It's going to be pretty comfy around here
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/756/temp1sn4.jpg

 

[George Jones]

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Wow - above the boiling point four days in a row.

 

[check]

Wow - above the boiling point four days in a row.

I blame global warming/Al Gore.

 

[G01]

Its around 80 in these parts, humid as all heck though...which makes it worse.

 

[scorpa]

Geez, yesterday I was out planting trees at a farm and nearly froze to death! There was a howling wind, and it was cold! I had on a sweater and jacket over top and gloves and I still thought I was going to freeze to death. Although I think I would rather that than having insanely hot temperatures like that!

 

[siddharth]

If it makes you feel better,

 

[J77]

There's going to be some ****ed up weather going on this summer.

 

[TuviaDaCat]

here it will soon be 95 every day, accompanied by 80 percent of moister. i can stand the heat, since it matters less when in shadow, and cold at night. high moister means: hot anywhere, anytime, and all the sweat... bah

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Where's Johnny Carson when you need him?

 

[loseyourname]

Chumps. We've got highs in the 70s for the next 10 days.

 

[turbo]

We were supposed to get into the mid-70's yesterday. It reached 91 in the shade.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

We are hovering in the sixties and low seventies with rain predicted on Tuesday.

Anything over 70F is too hot.

 

[Evo]

Anything over 70F is too hot.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[neutrino]

Anything over 70F is too hot.

My thoughts exactly.

Hi.How are things in Pluto?

 

[turbo]

Today, we were supposed to get maybe 70 degrees. It's 78 in the shade right now. I shouldn't complain, but when it's too hot to split and stack firewood in early May, something is wrong. Yesterday, I split wood until late morning when the temps got to around 80, then I took out the Softail and ran some parsnips up to my dad. I wanted to keep riding and get some miles in, but when looked in the rear-view and saw how flushed my face was, I headed home. It was over 90 in the shade when I got back here. That's not too unusual in late July or August, but early May?! One year in high school I skied on the south face of a local kettle-hole (steep-walled depression in an esker) near my parent's place in June after school was out. I guess I could move from Maine to northern Quebec to enjoy the winters of my childhood.

 

[turbo]

Hi.How are things in Pluto?

Kansas is too hot for me. Heck! Maine is too hot for me. But Madras? How are things on Venus?

 

[neutrino]

Kansas is too hot for me. Heck! Maine is too hot for me. But Madras? How are things on Venus?

I'm ready even for an acid-rain.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Hi.How are things in Pluto?

The last time that he had an x-ray, the dwarf Doc said that things looked goofy.

 

[Astronuc]

We set a new record for warm temperature yesterday - but it was only warm (88F) - but it was humid (> 80% Rel Hum).

This afternoon just after lunch we had a thundershower roll through and now we have a tornado watch.

 

[neutrino]

- but it was only warm (88F) - but it was humid (> 80% Rel Hum).

It's sometime past midnight, now and that's about the weather here. I think we hit 43/110 yesterday.

 

[Evo]

We were in the 50's last night, 60's yesterday, 60's today, low tonight and tomorrow in the 40's. (fahrenheit). :!)

 

[neutrino]

We were in the 50's last night, 60's yesterday, 60's today, low tonight and tomorrow in the 40's. (fahrenheit). :!)

Go on, rub it in...

 

[turbo]

Go on, rub it in...

Give her hell! It's not like she's going to fly 12,000 miles to smack you with a frozen fish. Although that might be the coolest that you'd be all day.

 

[Huckleberry]

I prefer temperatures in the desert about 100F. Here in Portland I'm very comfortable at about 80F. I'm usually feeling pretty cold.

 

[Astronuc]

We were in the 50's last night, 60's yesterday, 60's today, low tonight and tomorrow in the 40's. (fahrenheit). :!)

Trade you.

I would prefer ~ 70°F (21°C) with about 40-50% humidity and sunny, on a daily basis, with 2 cm of rain each Friday evening - year round.

 

[Cyrus]

Right now its a nice cool 79 degrees. If you people think 70's is too hot, your nuts. Anything up to 90 degrees is fine provided that the humidity is low (which is never around here).

 

[Astronuc]

Global warming said may alter Kansas area

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070518/ap_on_sc/no_sunflowers;_ylt=AjSFVkCWhSMHOLU0KZ8RsIQPLBIF

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Imagine the Sunflower State without its sunflowers. That's one of the dire predictions contained in a new report on global warming released by the National Wildlife Federation, which says the Kansas state flower could move north to other states in a few decades.

Increasingly warm temperatures also could mean the end of the state tree, the eastern cottonwood, according to "The Gardener's Guide to Global Warming."

. . . .

While conditions could change, Glick and other say projected increasing temperatures also could wipe out cool-weather grasses, such as Kentucky bluegrass, and many fescues that cover lawns in the region.

Some experts think global warming will cause temperatures in Kansas to rise an average of 5 to 12 degrees in the next several decades.

It seems like more extreme weather in the future.

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

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It is cold and miserable today - and is supposed to be cold and miserable on saturday too :-(

I need some global warming up here.

 

[Evo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070518/ap_on_sc/no_sunflowers;_ylt=AjSFVkCWhSMHOLU0KZ8RsIQPLBIF
It seems like more extreme weather in the future.

Summers in Kansas have been cooler each year for the last several years, this year has been the coldest so far, with record or near record lows . What data are these people using?

 

[Astronuc]

Summers in Kansas have been cooler each year for the last several years, this year has been the coldest so far, with record or near record lows . What data are these people using?

I don't know that it is necessarily based on temperature - but rather it is related to precipitation.

John Blair, a Kansas State University professor and research scientist at the Konza Prairie research station north of Manhattan, has been conducting experiments for nine years on the effect of altered rain patterns on plants.

Blair said even if total rainfall doesn't change, computer models show the rain will come less often and will fall in strong downpours when it does come.

I believe the center of the country, particularly Nebraska, the Dakotas, and E. Montana have been receiving less rain.

However,

Heavy rains through the last half of March have put an end to drought conditions across all of Central, South Central and Southeast Kansas. As a result, this will be the last update until D2 drought conditions return to the area.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/?n=drought (May 19.)


But I wonder what the temperatures will be like over the next decade.

There was the heat wave last year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_American_heat_wave

Then there is anecdotal stuff like:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/scripts/viewstory.php?STORY_NUMBER=2006061520
WICHITA EXPERIENCES WARMEST SPRING IN 117 YEAR CLIMATE RECORD (6/15/2006)
By: Eric Schminke

AS FAR AS WICHITA IS CONCERNED...SPRING 2006 SOARED TO THE TOP OF THE RECORD BOOKS IN TERMS OF WARMEST AVERAGE TEMPERATURE.


DURING THE 3-MONTH PERIOD OF MARCH...APRIL...AND MAY...THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE AT MID CONTINENT AIRPORT WAS AN EVEN 60.0 DEGREES. THIS SETS AN
ALL TIME RECORD FOR WARMEST SPRING SINCE CLIMATE RECORDS COMMENCED ON
JULY 1ST 1888. THE PREVIOUS SPRING RECORD WAS 59.7 DEGREES SET IN
1977. THE 60.0 DEGREE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 4.6 DEGREES ABOVE THE
NORMAL OF 55.4 DEGREES FOR THIS 3-MONTH PERIOD.

or
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/newsletter/Fall2005.php
Summer Climate Summary

Somewhere, like the NCDC at NOAA, there is a temperature record, but finding or accessing it seems to be a challenge.

I found this, but it only gives temperature records for a given day, and not a continuous (with time) dataset.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/climate/viewrecords.php

Here is some record temperatures near Wichita for July.
Date
July Record High/Record Low/Coolest High/Warmest Low
1 . 109 in 1980 . 58 in 1995 . 71 in 1988 . 78 in 1956
2 . 108 in 1990 . 54 in 1959 . 71 in 1915 . 80 in 1980
3 . 108 in 1990 . 53 in 1924 . 73 in 1892 . 80 in 1897
4 . 110 in 1980 . 53 in 1892 . 72 in 1915 . 80 in 1969
5 . 106 in 1980 . 51 in 1972 . 69 in 1967 . 82 in 1953
6 . 107 in 1980 . 55 in 1972 . 71 in 1904 . 79 in 1966
7 . 106 in 1980 . 55 in 1908 . 68 in 1894 . 80 in 1980
8 . 108 in 1980 . 55 in 1952 . 70 in 1896 . 82 in 1980
9 . 110 in 1980 . 55 in 1905 . 71 in 1905 . 83 in 1980
10 . 110 in 1980 . 53 in 1905 . 64 in 1895 . 81 in 1980
11 . 111 in 1980 . 55 in 1905 . 69 in 1996 . 81 in 1954
12 . 112 in 1980 . 56 in 1975 . 70 in 1953 . 80 in 1980
13 . 111 in 1954 . 51 in 1975 . 72 in 1951 . 80 in 1934
14 . 113 in 1954 . 52 in 1990 . 74 in 1973 . 81 in 1980
15 . 110 in 1936 . 55 in 1990 . 74 in 1891 . 83 in 1936
16 . 110 in 1980 . 57 in 1906 . 66 in 1967 . 82 in 1980
17 . 110 in 1980 . 57 in 1900 . 75 in 1911 . 82 in 1936
18 . 112 in 1936 . 59 in 1911 . 71 in 1967 . 82 in 1936
19 . 109 in 2006 . 61 in 1947 . 76 in 1911 . 82 in 1936
20 . 109 in 2006 . 55 in 1971 . 70 in 1970 . 81 in 1978
21 . 107 in 1974 . 53 in 1900 . 71 in 1950 . 83 in 1954
22 . 107 in 2001 . 53 in 1970 . 74 in 1961 . 80 in 1934
23 . 109 in 1936 . 55 in 1970 . 66 in 1947 . 79 in 2001
24 . 109 in 1981 . 58 in 1911 . 67 in 1947 . 80 in 2001
25 . 105 in 1964 . 58 in 1890 . 74 in 1904 . 83 in 1934
26 . 105 in 2006 . 57 in 2004 . 75 in 1996 . 79 in 1936
27 . 106 in 1986 . 58 in 2005 . 77 in 1911 . 80 in 1936
28 . 105 in 1980 . 56 in 2005 . 73 in 2004 . 79 in 1935
29 . 109 in 1978 . 55 in 1971 . 69 in 1971 . 80 in 1940
30 . 110 in 1986 . 54 in 1971 . 73 in 1903 . 78 in 1980
31 . 109 in 1934 . 53 in 1971 . 74 in 1962 . 79 in 1980