the misadventures of weather boy: Hot

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Hot

Anyone in the North Carolina neighborhood right now would probably judge Thursday's temperatures as unseasonably warm. After doing some digging, I found the standard high temperature product issued by the local Raleigh NWS Office:

000
ASUS62 KRAH 100105
RTPRAH
MAX/MIN TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TABLE FOR NC
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
904 PM EDT THU AUG 09 2007





.B RDU 0809 DH2330/TX/TN/PP
:
: HIGH PAST 12 HOURS / LOW PAST 18 HOURS /PCPN LAST 24 HOURS
:
:                                         24 HR
:                  ID     HIGH   LOW      PCPN           REMARKS
:ASHEVILLE       : AVL      94  /  67  /   0.00  :
:CHARLOTTE       : CLT     104  /  76  /   0.00  :
:ELIZABETH CITY  : ECG      99  /  77  /    M    :
:NEW BERN        : EWN      98  /  80  /   0.00  :
:FAYETTEVILLE    : FAY     107  /  81  /   0.00  :
:GREENSBORO      : GSO     101  /  80  /   0.00  :
:HICKORY         : HKY     104  /  75  /   0.00  :
:CAPE HATTERAS   : HSE      89  /  82  /   0.00  :
:WILMINGTON      : ILM      97  /  83  /   0.00  :
:WINSTON-SALEM   : INT     100  /  78  /   0.00  :
:LUMBERTON       : LBT     106  /  80  /   0.00  :
:BEAUFORT        : MRH      88  /  83  /   0.00  :
:RALEIGH-DURHAM  : RDU     104  /  78  /   0.00  :
:ROCKY MT-WILSON : RWI     106  /  74  /    M    :
:ROANOKE RAPIDS  : RZZ     105  /  79  /    M    :
:
:          T = TRACE / M = MISSING
.END


$$

A few tidbits I also noticed: KIGX (Chapel Hill) peaked out at 104, Southern Pines clocked a very high, but believable, 108 (well maybe their sensor was running warm, but they captured a number of 106 reports to make the case reasonable). My fairly reliable, but cool, temp sensor gave me a 102.7. If I get a chance, I may do an isotherm plot of temperatures.

Wednesday it wasn't so bad (Chapel Hill peaked out at 103; my temp sensor was a 99.9 as I recall).:

000
ASUS62 KRAH 091216
RTPRAH
MAX/MIN TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TABLE FOR NC
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
816 AM EDT THU AUG 09 2007

.B RDU 0809 DH12/TX/TN/PP
:
: HIGH YESTERDAY / LOW PAST 12 HOURS / PCPN PAST 24 HOURS
:
:                                         24 HR
:                  ID     HIGH   LOW      PCPN           REMARKS
:ASHEVILLE       : AVL     92  /  67  /   0.01  :
:CHARLOTTE       : CLT     102 /  76  /   0.00  :
:ELIZABETH CITY  : ECG     98  /  77  /   0.00  :
:NEW BERN        : EWN     99  /  80  /   0.00  :
:FAYETTEVILLE    : FAY     105 /  81  /     T   :
:GREENSBORO      : GSO     100 /  80  /   0.00  :
:HICKORY         : HKY     100 /  75  /   0.00  :
:CAPE HATTERAS   : HSE     91  /  82  /   0.00  :
:WILMINGTON      : ILM     98  /  83  /   0.22  :
:WINSTON-SALEM   : INT     98  /  78  /   0.00  :
:LUMBERTON       : LBT     106 /  80  /   0.00  :
:BEAUFORT        : MRH     87  /  83  /   0.00  :
:RALEIGH-DURHAM  : RDU     102 /  78  /   0.00  :
:ROCKY MT-WILSON : RWI     103 /  74  /   0.00  :
:ROANOKE RAPIDS  : RZZ     104 /  79  /   0.00  :
:
:          T = TRACE / M = MISSING
.END

METAR KRDU 100256Z VRB02KT 6SM HZ 29/22 A2989 RMK SLP111

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