My neighbors and I have made a game out of comparing low temps, max wind gusts, and resulting damage reports. And when you compare what’s really happening with what the weather forecast says is supposed to be happening, it doesn’t often seem very similar. A distance of just a mile can make a big difference, and I don’t understand why.
The airport this weather forecast is aimed at is only ten or twelve miles away as the crow flies and supposedly has 20o temps right now. But I’m ten degrees below that and still falling steadily. Naturally (thank you Uncle Murphy!) the sky cleared just in time for sunset, so there ain’t nothing to hold the heat – and there wasn’t any heat to hold anyway, so…
It’s a’gonna get cold tonight. To my delight the cabin is still quite comfortable, though of course by morning things will be shivery indeed. This will test my water pipe improvements, fer shur. I’m very interested to see if I still have running water in the morning.
Yeah, under sunny skies my online weather guesser said it was raining in the village 3 miles away. Think there’s a golden opportunity for people with some observational skills to look out the window and let the weather guys know what’s going on? Apparently they can’t.
You do lose 3 degrees of temp. for every 1,000′ of elevation rise. That might explain some of your temperature differences with the weather guy. Either that or he’s like mine.