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Ground Temps Reached 118°F in the Arctic Circle Last Week
- Noumenon72 5y agoThe obvious question raised here is "How does ground temp compare to normal temp?" From Googling, it looks like it generally is more extreme (think parking lot vs air above parking lot), perhaps up to 12 degrees warmer.
- jdavis703 5y agoThat’s correct, ground temp can be way different than air temp (if you’ve lived in a snowy climate, you’ve almost certainly been in storms where the falling snow melted after hitting the ground.)
- aazaa 5y agoFrom the linked Gizmodo article: > The air temperature in Verkhojansk was 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius)—still anomalously hot, but not Arizona hot. https://gizmodo.com/ground-temperatures-hit-118-degrees-in-the-arctic-circl-1847144505 https://gizmodo.com/ground-temperatures-hit-118-degrees-in-t... I'm not sure what the deal is with reporting ground temperature, but it seems like click baiting to me. What was your city's ground temperature yesterday? You're not likely to know. What was the air temperature? That you know. The article doesn't even mention the air temperature for comparison. What's worse is the the Pacific Northwest of the US has recently seen air temperature highs above 100 F. So this article is misleadingly trying to draw an associate to that event. I can imagine the conversations now... A: Did you hear about the heat in Oregon? B: That's nothing. It was 118 IN THE ARTIC CIRCLE!
- yeuxardents 5y agoFUD makes money Its why its literally everywhere on the internet/news now I switched from weather.com to accuweather.com years ago when everything on weather.com became 10 PEOPLE DIE IN EXTREME HEAT IN LOUISIANA plastered all over the place now accuweather.com is starting to resemble the same I will probably end up at just weather.gov, which is less featurefilled, but at least is not covered in FUD