[PRCo] Re: Official Temperature

[Fred Schneider]

Remember to that in 1900 you had Jones and Laughlin, Westinghouse Air  
Brake, steam locomotives on the B&O, the P&LE, the PRR, PFtW&C,  
Armstrong, Crane Plumbing and all sorts of other places plus steam  
boats on the rivers adding to the heat downtown.   On the flip side,  
you didn't have 200,000 automobiles registered within the city  
limits.  I want to think the industry jacked up the heat but then I  
have no idea how the equations work out over the last 100+ years.    
It was also 86 degrees in Lancaster this afternoon.   I was hiding in  
the Manheim train station next to the A. C. vents.   The Birney car  
was hot.

On Oct 7, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Dennis F. Cramer wrote:

> 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
>