[PRCo] Re: Official Temperature

[Edward H. Lybarger]

They certainly couldn't have been using airports in 1900!  I agree that it
was most likely downtown, so some of the record highs will be hard to break.

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Dennis F. Cramer
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 9:00 AM
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Subject: [PRCo] Official Temperature


Since we have been experiencing abnormally high temperatures here in the
'Burg, I have always wondered what location the official temperatures were
recorded.  I know today the official temperatures are recorded at Pittsburgh
International Airport and I assume before that at Allegheny County Airport.
The high today is to be 86 and the record is 88 set in 1900.  The statistics
have to be skewed as that high from 1900 was probably recorded somewhere
downtown, always one of the hottest places around.

Any ideas?


Dennis Fred Cramer
     Trombone