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I Think Yahoo Weather Is Gaslighting Me On The Temperature (iPhone)
12/8/14 | Self (VANITY)

Posted on 12/08/2014 11:03:13 AM PST by Haiku Guy

I have noticed over the last few months that the temperature I get for my location from Yahoo Weather on my iPhone is running 3-4 degrees F higher than the actual temperature that I observe through my own equipment or on various thermometers around town.

For instance, right now it is 29 degrees F, the puddles are frozen, and the termometer outside my window, the radio and the bank across the street all agree that it is 29 degrees F.

But my iPhone is telling me it is 34 degrees.

If this just happened from time to time, I would chalk it up to errors or bad data. But it is very consistent. every time I check my phone. Now, every time I see a thermometer, I check my phone against it, just to see if it is consistently warmer, and it is, every single time.

What was it James Bond said, "If it happens once, it is happenstance. If it happens twice, it is coincidence. If it happens three times, it is enemy action".

So, the question is, obviously, why would Yahoo Weather do such a thing? If they can't even say when it is freezing outside, they are going to hurt their business. So what is their motivation in getting this wrong?

My guess it is all about Global Warming. They are generating a data set for every location in the country. The would be the easiest thing, if you want to look at temperature trends, to just pull up the Yahoo Weather data for year-to-year comparisons. Since nobody is allowed to talk about the weather anymore without lying about it, maybe Yahoo Weather is biasing their data upward to "prove" that Global Warming really does exist.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; iphone; yahoo
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How about it... Has anybody else noticed this?

Check Yahoo Weather against the actual weather at your location, and see if you notice a consistent difference.

The other alternative is that I really am crazy, which is a possibility I cannot dismiss out-of-hand.

1 posted on 12/08/2014 11:03:13 AM PST by Haiku Guy
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To: Haiku Guy

Occam’s shaving kit.


2 posted on 12/08/2014 11:04:11 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Haiku Guy

YAHOO is on board with Al Gore.

But hey, it’s FREE! Right?


4 posted on 12/08/2014 11:05:19 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Haiku Guy

All weather is local.

Our microclimate is always hotter than reported.


5 posted on 12/08/2014 11:05:43 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Haiku Guy

What is “gaslighting”?


6 posted on 12/08/2014 11:06:49 AM PST by humblegunner (Why hello, Captain Trips.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Get the weather underground app. Much better than others.


7 posted on 12/08/2014 11:06:52 AM PST by struggle
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To: F15Eagle

CEO Marissa Mayer is an Obama bundler.


8 posted on 12/08/2014 11:07:36 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: Haiku Guy

I blame ‘Globull’ warming.


9 posted on 12/08/2014 11:08:28 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Haiku Guy
Yahoo and my three outdoor thermos are all in agreement - 74 degrees. I suppose the location of whatever sensor Yahoo uses in your case is more protected, or some such...

I shoulda done this in haiku, but lunch is almost ready...

10 posted on 12/08/2014 11:08:31 AM PST by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: Haiku Guy

A few years ago, I’d have told you to take off the tin foil hat. But it turns out the tin foil hat wearing kooks were right about government monitoring, secret government scandals, intentional undermining of our Republic and covert missions to help our enemies.

So now I sell tell foil hats. Do you need one?


11 posted on 12/08/2014 11:09:42 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (POTUS shall now be referred to as POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: Haiku Guy
iWarming©


12 posted on 12/08/2014 11:10:31 AM PST by 867V309 (Crusade: the only solution.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The term comes from a terrific old movie starring Ingrid Bergman in which her evil husband keeps changing things around (including the gas lights) to make her think she is going insane.

It is now classified as a form of mental abuse.


13 posted on 12/08/2014 11:10:41 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Haiku Guy
The other alternative is that I really am crazy,

In my case, it's not necessarily an either/or question.

14 posted on 12/08/2014 11:11:08 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: Haiku Guy

Yahoo Weather must have an Al Gore Global Warming believer running it.


15 posted on 12/08/2014 11:11:51 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: humblegunner

Gaslighting is an effort to effect a person’s perception of reality by changing the information given to them in a purposeful way.

It refers to the 1944 movie Gaslight, with Charles Boyer and Igrid Bergman, where a man tries to drive his wife insane by lowering the level of the gaslight in her room while telling her that she was imagining the changing level of illumination.


16 posted on 12/08/2014 11:14:42 AM PST by Haiku Guy (Every driver with a "Ready For Hillary" bumper sticker had to scrape off a "Obama 12" bumper sticker)
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To: Haiku Guy
Gaslighting Abbie
17 posted on 12/08/2014 11:14:57 AM PST by kanawa
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To: NormsRevenge

Yep...especially in hot climates. Was in Kuwait city staring at a thermometer that read 138F. The air force was reporting 125F. years later met a man who experienced the same thing in the Cali desert. He called a radio station complaining that they under report the temperature. They told him they do it on purpose because when they report the real high stat, people start dying left and right!


19 posted on 12/08/2014 11:16:16 AM PST by gr8eman (Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
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To: Haiku Guy

Remember the “official” temp for your region generally comes from one thermometer, near one building, that’s monitored by somebody. Back in the day your TV weather guy probably even said it (”it’s 85 degree right at the airport”). So subsequently your mileage may vary.


20 posted on 12/08/2014 11:19:36 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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