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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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To: Haiku Guy

It is probably not Yahoo, but who they get their information from. It is well known that most “official” weather stations in the US are not correctly located, often put in heat islands like airports. So they consistently register from 5-10 degrees warmer than anywhere else.

However, other than these “official” sites, there are likely dozens of other readings in your area, *if* you can find a map of their locations. Your accurate temperature is close to the average of the temperatures about a quarter of a mile in all directions, excepting unusual places like golf courses and lakes


41 posted on 12/08/2014 12:05:40 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Haiku Guy

Yahoo 34 Weather Channel 32


42 posted on 12/08/2014 12:08:24 PM PST by o-n-money
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To: Haiku Guy
Yahoo is two - three degrees cooler for the stations around me that I know and trust.
43 posted on 12/08/2014 12:09:55 PM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Haiku Guy

The ‘official’ weather is from somewhere in town. Might be the airport. Perhaps they are sampling too close to some heat generating equipment.


44 posted on 12/08/2014 12:40:55 PM PST by TalonDJ
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To: struggle

I have the Weather Underground app. And Yahoo. And a couple of others. Some of them, including WU, run a few degrees warm because I live in a rather cold spot, and the local reports are drawn from small weather stations that may not be appropriately sited. For example, some reports come from small stations at schools, where they’re often placed on the roof for security reasons. Obviously a flat roof is hot. Other stations are put next to a factory’s red brick walls or an airport runway. You can see how these placements bias temperature reports upward.


45 posted on 12/08/2014 12:41:03 PM PST by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: struggle
[Get the weather underground app]

I did and I got the Bill Ayers Version, thanks!!!

46 posted on 12/08/2014 12:49:10 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: SamAdams76
So even if Yahoo! got together with Google and the rest to try and fool us about the temperature, they would get outed pretty quickly.

And what would that "outing" look like?

47 posted on 12/08/2014 12:54:54 PM 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: struggle

Agreed. PWS makes “Best Forecast” far more accurate. There’s lots of tools and information at that site.

Pay $10 a year and drop the ads. Get other features too.

wunderground.com


48 posted on 12/08/2014 2:18:59 PM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: Haiku Guy
I would think so, too, except the same error is consistent as I move from town to town. The iPhone changes the location as I move, but the temperature is always running 3-5 degrees F higher. For instance, Yahoo Weather is reporting the temperature in the town where I live is 1 degree F warmer than my work location, so it is obviously running off of a different sensor. But they are both consistently just a few degrees high. This is true wherever I go in the area.

The weather site goes with the temp of the National Weather Service monitoring station closest to your area.

Some global warming skeptics, a few years back, discovered that the NWS monitoring stations were badly located, sitting near warm buildings, air conditioner exhausts, etc. This would skew temperature readings upwards. Report here

It looks like you've noticed the same. The "official" temp readings are skewed to show "warming".

49 posted on 12/08/2014 2:31:33 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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50 posted on 12/09/2014 7:18:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: Haiku Guy

iphone error?

My phone works


51 posted on 12/10/2014 5:32:49 AM PST by dila813
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