Why do thermometers never agree?

[Rod Speed]

I know I can see the rain coming from hundreds of miles way and can see it passing below my town at times too.

<reams of your shit any 2 year old could leave for dead flushed where it belongs>

Wrong, as always.

But it can tell you what temperature it will feel like and you are free to decide what clothes will be appropriate for that given when you plan to be doing.

Doesn't need to.

30K people.

So am I but I prefer to be comfortable when standing around in with a chill wind in winter.

And when standing around when its over 45C too which feels like you are in a oven.

<pathetic excuse for a troll flushed where it belongs>

[Commander Kinsey]

I'm really not that fussy.

And what you're saying appears to be backwards. When it's humid, temperatures feel more extreme either way (think butterfly house - 100% humidity, your sweat can't evaporate), so you should be feeling not quite as cold when the winter is dry. Although I've never know a dry winter. Winter is usually 100% humidity here in Scotland. That means your skin is damp and you feel colder. A dry winter should feel a bit warmer.

[Commander Kinsey]

I'm just happy if I can see out the bloody window. Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to populate an island (the UK)? It's just wet, all the bloody time. Windows are always steamed up. Cars get damp and mouldy inside.

[Commander Kinsey]

Shouldn't be necessary. All three thermometers have already been shown to agree.

[Commander Kinsey]

And the thermometer actually comes back out unharmed?

[Commander Kinsey]

I'm not admitting to that in public.

[Commander Kinsey]

You didn't leave here, you were thrown out!

[Commander Kinsey]

I don't see why that would be true. I can understand humidity in summer stopping you from sweating so easily, so you feel hotter. But in winter, you aren't sweating. I would have thought if the air is damper in winter, more heat would be conducted away from you. Perhaps if you're wet for some reason, like it's been raining, then you cause more evaporation when it's less humid? But it wouldn't have rained if it was dry! Maybe it's the damp on your skin evaporating as skin is always a little bit moist? I'm having to guess here as I'm not fussy enough to notice the difference, unless I walked from one place directly to another with different humidity and the same temperature.

[Commander Kinsey]

And you know which way it will decide to go do you?

It has no clue what temperature it will feel like. Because that depends on how wimpy you are, what you're wearing, what you're doing, etc, etc.

I meant in area obviously. Which is the only thing relevant to weather. Why would the weather care how many people are there?

Those are extremes of temperature. What I mean is the "feels like" is unnecessarily precise. If it feels 5 or 10C different to what it really is, you won't even know or care.

Was my query too difficult for you?

[Rod Speed]

Yep, the radar and lightning maps are time lapse, so its easy to see what it is going.

Corse it does.

But I know when standing around in shorts and T shirt that 13 will feel too cold. And that 45C will feel like you are standing in front of an oven.

Then you should have said that.

The size of the town is realted to the number of people, stupid.

Bullshit it is when its say 8Cbelow the stevenson screen temp.

Only fools like you don't really care when deciding what to wear.

It was a pathetic excuse for a troll.

[Andrew]

Not with one of grandfathers cows. Newly qualified vet 'lost' the thermometer when cow suddenly belched.

[Commander Kinsey]

I'd be more concerned for the cow, with a now smashed glass thermometer with mercury inside it. Or are animal ones non-toxic and biodegradable?

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

Where I am, it's usually dry in the winter (although summers are usually very humid). When we do have a humid day in the winter, it's much colder for that temperature.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

The day I took my grandmother to a hospital in another city, the weather was like that. I had to use the A/C, but being cold was preferable to not being able to see.

[Commander Kinsey]

That makes more sense that way round - damp air will conduct more body heat away from you. But in summer, damp air prevents evaporation from sweat. In other words, humidity always makes extremes feel moreso.

[charles]

then your A/C is wromgly set. It can dry the air and keep you warm at the same time. My last few cars have all been able to do this.

[Commander Kinsey]

[Clare Snyder]

"But they don't have Lucas air conditioners"

[Ron Bach]

A/C != cold. The decision to turn on A/C, for example to dehumidify the air in winter, is completely separate from the decision to set the temperature.

In the summer, I use A/C with a colder temp. In the winter, I use A/C with a warmer temp.

[gfretwell]

Usually "defrost" does have the AVC going. The core easily overcomes the A/C so you are blowing warm dry air.