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.
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.
Occam’s shaving kit.
YAHOO is on board with Al Gore.
But hey, it’s FREE! Right?
All weather is local.
Our microclimate is always hotter than reported.
What is “gaslighting”?
Get the weather underground app. Much better than others.
CEO Marissa Mayer is an Obama bundler.
I blame ‘Globull’ warming.
I shoulda done this in haiku, but lunch is almost ready...
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?
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.
In my case, it's not necessarily an either/or question.
Yahoo Weather must have an Al Gore Global Warming believer running it.
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.
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!
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.
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