Did everyone else know this but me? Weather temperatures

[Lottle]

I just found out that the temperatures given in the weather forecast are the temperatures in the shade!

No wonder I was constantly overdressed and boggled that "oh this is warm for 19 degrees".

What else don't I know?!

We covered “climate and weather” in science at school. We even had a weather station.

It's actually the ambient air temperature as surfaces of different materials and colour absorb the sun's radiation differently.

My current forecast is 22, feel feel sun 27, 0% chance of rain.

I'll take that!

Well I'm 37 and learned something new today

My outdoor thermometer burst last summer because ot was in the direct sun!

I've never seen this in a car, even hire cars abroad, it only seems to occur on MN!

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Thank you, I was thinking the same!

Don't worry, if you ever go to London there are signs telling you to do this 🙂it’s so people can walk past you on the left

That I didn't know!

It's on my car (Ford)

Yes. I had it recorded (from a thermometer in the garden) at nearer 43/44 in the sun on some of the 40 degree days.

It doesn't work like that, the majority of forecasters only use one model depending on the predictions required. What can vary are the input parameters and these are sourced from.

But different versions give slightly different results, so I find the US Navy NAVGEM best at long range.

The majority of forecasters calculate % as confidence x area. The area would usually be the resolution of the forecast.

Yes I knew that and my mum from a Mediterranean country thinks they fiddle the figures here. Some days they say its baking hot and it isn't and she thinks they put it directly in the sun to make out it's hotter than Spain, Greece or Italy and the media can salivate on it lol

It's on my car (Ford)

Misread that as Fred & thought that that was a great name for a car!

I have it on my current car (Seat) and had it on my last one (Suzuki).

It's very handy because I'm an idiot and, even though I've had my car for over a year, I have to check the arrow more often than I'd like to admit

Often during sporting events they will give a shade temp and a temp in the sun, and a surface temp. So for example f1, or tennis. It’s always interesting to see how much it varies.

Read the other flipping posts - that was the real temperature. Any "temperature" reading taken in direct sunlight is a false interpretation, as per the previous explanations

This was what I said when my sister wanted me to get a dna test for ancestry purposes. Then she explained. And the results show that we do have very different dna. We both get a different % from each parent and in turn that percentage might have more or less of their parents etc.

The temperature thing makes sense when you think about cars. On a sunny day I get into my car and it measures 30 degrees when it’s been sat in the same spot for a period of time but as we drive it comes down to the more accurate 18/20 or so degrees. This is true of being in the shade and in the sun - the shade just gives a cooler higher reading.

When I watched the adorable Ian Fergusson doing the BBC Points West weather forecast, if the weather forecast showed scattered showers as blue blobs moving across the map, I used to wonder 'How do they know there'll be a little shower over Bath at exactly 3 PM?

Radar is used to look for rain (and wind), the weather models then use the radar to extrapolate into future.

Look up rainfall radar, although not much point today.

There was an old alleged 'record' temperature in Seville of 50° which has been widely discredited because it was probably taken with a thermometer in the street in direct sunlight. When I was at school they had a weather station and the thermometer lived in a little house on a pole, painted white, with louvres to let air in and out.

Yes, I know that, but I believe now (unless you can disabuse me) that the scattered moving blobs in the animated graphic are purely to suggest that the scattered showers will be local in extent, but not where and when they will happen. They are illustrative rather than indicative.* *Can the models really tell that there will be a shower a mile wide in one place at an exact time 24 hours in the future?

Scattered showers no, not in 24hrs. I was thinking more 15 to 30 minutes, I'm a bit obsessive over the weather due to the sport I play.