"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Winston Churchill
A Death Valley thermometer is reading high because it is right next to a building and an asphalt parking lot. Imagine having a thermometer placed on a tennis court, or right next to it, on a hot day. We know from coverage of tennis games that there is a thing called "court temperature", and this is very similar to that situation. Other nearby thermometers do not show the spike in heat in Death Valley. If it there really was record heat in the region other nearby thermometers would show signs of it, but they don't. And these sorts of ill sighted reading contribute to the modern weather record that is skewing the overall temps upwards. This should not be happening, but it is because of politics.
[Posted at the
SpookyWeather2 blog, September 7, 2022.]
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