Some nice rainfall and storms across North Georgia this afternoon 
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Pattern Dry July 2024
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A rain shower just moved through the GSO area. Sure to cool things off a little, and also turn it into a steam bath.
Iceagewhereartthou
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Wow, have to head to CAE to cool off; only at 96 and it's fair skies. CAE actually one of the cooler spots today. None of it makes any sense anymore.
BHS1975
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Finally!
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Wow, that is seriously sketchy. Durham at 97 and RDU at 106??? I didn’t know Durham didn’t have UHI effects, too. If anything, Durham may have more UHI than the RDU airport!
I'm about 15 miles (as a crow flies) north/northeast of the airport. My high so far is 98. We should be much closer with the temperature. The big differences seem to only happen when it's sunny. My temps are much closer when it cloudy, and especially during widespread precipitation events. That article I posted, stated the sensors were over packed clay soils. That would do it.
Brick Tamland
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It seems like the hotter it gets the more and more off the station at RDU gets. Used to it being 3 to 5 degrees off all the time, but today it's 8 to 10 degrees off.
Brick Tamland
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Greg Fishel's response to WRAL met Kat Campbell's Facebook post about RDU hitting 106.
My point is this. The science categorically supports the idea that Man is warming the climate. But bad data is bad data. There isn't a properly sited observation anywhere in Wake County within 5 degrees F of that RDU reading. It's pure and unadulterated trash!
My point is this. The science categorically supports the idea that Man is warming the climate. But bad data is bad data. There isn't a properly sited observation anywhere in Wake County within 5 degrees F of that RDU reading. It's pure and unadulterated trash!
Sctvman
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I was wondering and this made zzzero sense. And of course all the climate sites and social media will go crazy over that observation
Brick Tamland
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It's raining here! And only a 20% chance in the forecast today.
Brent
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82 degrees here at 3pm... I could get used to this
Brick Tamland
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Another post from Greg Fishel on Facebook about the readings at RDU.
THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS, AND SOME PEOPLE COMMENTING CLEARLY DO NOT KNOW WHAT PROPER SITING STANDARDS ARE FOR INSTRUMENTATION.
Back in the year 1999 when RDU hit 100°F or higher 12 times, the idea that the RDU temperature reading was suspect was first brought to the public's attention. Steve Harned, the then Meteorologist in Charge at the Raleigh National Weather Service office took it upon himself to do a study, by placing temperature sensors at widely varying locations across the airport grounds. His conclusion was the best description of the issue I have ever heard, and I will share it with you now. He stated that the instrumentation was accurately representing a microclimate that was not representative of where anyone lived. Bingo! The instrumentation itself is fine, but it's sited in a terrible location, dictated by the FAA, who rightly insists on a location near the airport runway for aviation safety purposes. But we know for a fact that the instrumentation is not sited for climate purposes, and that when you can't find a properly sited station within 5°F of the airport reading, you know you have a problem. And please, stop with the car thermometer examples! Are those thermometers 2 meters over a grassy surface properly sheltered from the sun? I don't think so. Nobody likes breaking records more than I do, but let's make sure the records are legit, and this one clearly is not!
THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS, AND SOME PEOPLE COMMENTING CLEARLY DO NOT KNOW WHAT PROPER SITING STANDARDS ARE FOR INSTRUMENTATION.
Back in the year 1999 when RDU hit 100°F or higher 12 times, the idea that the RDU temperature reading was suspect was first brought to the public's attention. Steve Harned, the then Meteorologist in Charge at the Raleigh National Weather Service office took it upon himself to do a study, by placing temperature sensors at widely varying locations across the airport grounds. His conclusion was the best description of the issue I have ever heard, and I will share it with you now. He stated that the instrumentation was accurately representing a microclimate that was not representative of where anyone lived. Bingo! The instrumentation itself is fine, but it's sited in a terrible location, dictated by the FAA, who rightly insists on a location near the airport runway for aviation safety purposes. But we know for a fact that the instrumentation is not sited for climate purposes, and that when you can't find a properly sited station within 5°F of the airport reading, you know you have a problem. And please, stop with the car thermometer examples! Are those thermometers 2 meters over a grassy surface properly sheltered from the sun? I don't think so. Nobody likes breaking records more than I do, but let's make sure the records are legit, and this one clearly is not!
RDU dropped from 102 to 95 in the mid-afternoon now, LOL. Was there a rain shower or is the temperature reading just that erratic?
WFFaithful
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Rain
weather bubba
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It dropped to 93 degrees at my house from 100 degrees near the NCSU ECONet station located at Lake Wheeler. I was on the edge of a thundershower that moved through South of Raleigh about a hour ago and received a trace of rain. Hopefully that shower is a sign of things to come later today and this weekend.
Pattern loaded. Thank you for bearing with us 
Downeastnc
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99 at PGV.....can hear thunder from the storm to my east....
106F at RDU…sure. Guess which stations they will use to report their yearly climate reports.
Not dry for Jimmy and Shet tonight! 