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It shows the month's temperature deviation from the 30-year averages.
Which temperature? Day-time, or overall? Are we talking degrees F, or degrees C? Why does this map have no legend? Who compiled the data, both the average temperature and the current years' numbers?
I don't know for sure. I assume that it is the average daily temperature taken
over the entire 31 days in August. At least that is how I normally understand it.
I don't know the level of granularity, but it would be trivial to record the temperature every
second for all 2,678,400 seconds in the month of August and come up with an average.
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Originally Posted by Stanrice
Are we talking degrees F, or degrees C?
Based on how much higher temperatures have been in Albuquerque, my assumption would be Fahrenheit.
If it were Centigrade, then the color marked in red would be about 11 deg F warmer and although it has
been warm, it has not been that much warmer.
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Originally Posted by Stanrice
Why does this map have no legend?
Because it was posted only as a jpeg image from the original article.
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Originally Posted by Stanrice
Who compiled the data, both the average temperature and the current years' numbers?
I don't know for sure. I assume that it is the average daily temperature taken
over the entire 31 days in August. At least that is how I normally understand it.
I don't know the level of granularity, but it would be trivial to record the temperature every
second for all 2,678,400 seconds in the month of August and come up with an average.
That's not how average temperatures (overall, not just high or low) are calculated, but I am impressed that you took the few minutes to figure out how many seconds there were in August.
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Originally Posted by mortimer
Based on how much higher temperatures have been in Albuquerque, my assumption would be Fahrenheit.
If it were Centigrade, then the color marked in red would be about 11 deg F warmer and although it has
been warm, it has not been that much warmer.
Ha! good point.
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Originally Posted by mortimer
Because it was posted only as a jpeg image from the original article.
The High Plains Regional Climate Center.
Which may be why it is a good idea to include the legend as part of the picture...
Looks like the Good Lord was punishing all the global warming deniers.
Remember last winter when the "deniers" were wandering through the snow after the
blizzard(s) saying "Looks like the Good Lord was punishing all the global warming believers?"
I remember when Al "pay attention to me" Gore was still VP and Washington D.C. was
having a terrible heat wave waving his arms saying "What more proof do you need?"
Heat waves and cold snaps and new record highs are not proof of anything.
Global warming is a trend in average temperatures taken at all points on the
globe at all times of the year and at all times of the day - that is increasing.
It does not mean that everywhere is getting warmer, but that the average
of the averages - taken globally is increasing over time.
Even as the world heats up, some places will probably actually cool down
due to changes in weather ( weather, not climate ).
Had there been measuring devices and people available to operating them, you
could have probably created a map like this from one of the months during the
many years while the Pleistocene ice sheets were forming. Just like now, it wouldn't
have meant anything other than it was warmer than average for a month in Texas.
I just wanted to point that out.
Last edited by mortimer; 09-02-2011 at 04:16 PM..
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