Why do thermometers never agree?

[Commander Kinsey]

I have three thermometers, they read the same when placed next to each other. Put one in another room, and it reads colder, yet I can feel as I walk into the room that it's warmer.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Prick.

[Commander Kinsey]

Ah, another informative answer from thicko Pounder. You're as stupid as a southerner sometimes.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

It is not an answer, it is a remark. Learn the difference, prick.

[Bob]

Maybe check humidity in both rooms with a sling psychrometer?

[Hawk]

They don't agree Because one is Republican, the other is Democrat and the third is most likely Libertarian.

[Commander Kinsey]

Checked with a digital one. Only 3% difference. Which I think would slightly exaggerate the change I'd feel.

I think the problem is that the room isn't even throughout, they never are. I'm feeling the air in the middle as I walk through the door, the thermometers were on the wall at the edge.

[Custos Custodum]

Is it because of their mercurial temperament?

[Commander Kinsey]

Could be, I'll give them a jolly good talking to.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Or the humidity is different

In a humid summer I want my car at 19C. In dry cold winder 22 is more the mark.

[FMurtz]

Stupid question. Take the three thermometers together into each room before posing it.

[Andrew]

The thermometer is usually inserted into a nearby orifice (if you can only say mieaow or woof)

[Andrew]

Was somone murdered in that room ?. Ghost ??

[Ed Pawlowski]

Set mine at 22C on the last few cars and never change it. Love good climate control in a car.

[whisky-dave]

I thought you knew about physics.

What you feel is the differnce between your internal temperature and extenal temperature. That's why you don't feel 'the cold' when sitting in a cold stream with cold air around you. Which is also why hot countries have spicy food, and cold countries (othe rthan the UK perhaps don't)

[whisky-dave]

Then stop feeling yourself, any excuse is it ?

why should it be, heat rises, cold falls.

I thought you knew physics.

[Andrew]

Err, are you sure that you do ?.

HOT AIR rises(cos it expands). COLD AIR sinks (cos it contracts).

Heat is radiated, conducted or ...

[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.