On 07/25/2016 12:04 PM, KenK wrote:
I'm having my own private high heat this past month. About 6/15 the 100K+
AZ town in live near had a week-long heat wave, around 115. Then it
returned to normal - high 90s, low 100s, once in a while low teens. Out
here in the farmland where I live, aboutc 2 miles west of town, it's
consistently been around 15 degrees above theirs since then. They report
100 on the radio weather report, 1 get 115. Yesterday it was 113 there,
132 here. ...

No, it's not a defective thermometer, all three of my outside
thermometers agree.

Mayhaps not defective thermometer, almost certainly defective
measurement (for real air temperature, anyway).

Highest record world-wide air temp is 129F or thereabouts; a measurement
of 136F in Libya has been decertified by World Meterological
Organization and a Death Valley measurement of 134F is considered likely
erroneous as well. 129F is pretty-much the limit of recognized
measurements.

Of course, these are "official" air temp measurements which are defined
as being at 1.5m above ground and shielded from direct sunlight.
Ground-reflected temperatures can easily exceed air temperatures by as
much as 60-80F and perhaps even more for dark soils or paved areas, say.

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