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Average max temperature refers to the average daily maximum of each month, not the highest temperature of the month. I guess it is ambiguous now that you pointed it out, but that's the usual way of writing it. So to me and other posters, there was nothing ambiguous in the OP.
Since there hasn't been a single solitary reference to an "average" anywhere in this thread, I fail to see how this is relevant.
Since there hasn't been a single solitary reference to an "average" anywhere in this thread, I fail to see how this is relevant.
You missed my point... It's taking an average of maximums; which are daily maximums not monthly maximums. And daily is not mentioned. Daily is assumed not stated just like the OP.
The question is, what is the coldest maximum temperature on any given day that has ever been recorded in your town/city between 1 June and 31 August. It is really quite simple.
You missed my point... It's taking an average of maximums; which are daily maximums not monthly maximums. And daily is not mentioned. Daily is assumed not stated just like the OP.
An average requires a range by definition so by definition it refers to a data range and not just one data point. Just saying "maximum" without referring to any increment leaves it open to ambiguity. If the OP meant "daily maximum high" then he could have just said "daily maximum high." By adding that one word, there would have been no ambiguity about which "maximum" he was referring to. And if he had just said "I meant maximum daily high" when responding to my initial question instead of being a snarky smartass about it, we could have avoided this entire discussion.
Your the only one on here that is confused doesn't that tell you something?
I'm no longer confused, thanks. And this thread could have been a lot shorter if you or the OP had just clarified the first time I asked without being dicky about it.
An average requires a range by definition so by definition it refers to a data range and not just one data point.
Yes, but the average was taken over many years. They could have taken the average of the highest monthly temperature of each year, but they didn't. The site averaged daily temperature not monthly, and didn't bother to say daily (and it's via a public weather/climate service). This article uses maximum without making adding daily either:
Just saying "maximum" without referring to any increment leaves it open to ambiguity. If the OP meant "daily maximum high" then he could have just said "daily maximum high." By adding that one word, there would have been no ambiguity about which "maximum" he was referring to. And if he had just said "I meant maximum daily high" when responding to my initial question instead of being a snarky smartass about it, we could have avoided this entire discussion.
Daily would have been more clear. But no one else noticed the ambiguity and didn't follow where you were coming from, so I don't the OP wasn't sure what to clarify. You could have asked what he meant.
Daily would have been more clear. But no one else noticed the ambiguity and didn't follow where you were coming from, so I don't the OP wasn't sure what to clarify. You could have asked what he meant.
That was the whole freaking point of my asking for clarification -- twice. And instead of someone just providing that clarification and moving on, I got a-hole responses and now it's become all this. Jesus Christ.
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