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As the other poster mentioned, going to thousands of a °C implies precision that simply isn't there. The math conversion between °F and °C gives repeating decim

As the other poster mentioned, going to thousands of a °C implies precision that simply isn't there. The math conversion between °F and °C gives repeating decimals, so you were already rounding. The other poster was simply pointing out that your choice of rounding was implying precision that was unwarranted. Rounding to 56.7°C would have been plenty enough to make sense (reverses back to 134.06). I tried finding information on the precision of the DV record and couldn't, but I personally doubt it was more that hundredths of a °F. I'd love for someone to provide data on the instruments used to record that record though, for my own edification.

thebruce87m 2y ago
> so you were already rounding > your choice of rounding Just a reminder that none of it was my choice, it was straight from google: https://www.google.com/search?q=134+fahrenheit+to+celsius&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari https://www.google.com/search?q=134+fahrenheit+to+celsius&ie...
nucleardog 2y ago
> I tried finding information on the precision of the DV record and couldn't More than you could possible want to know, but: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/an-investigation-of-death-valleys-134f-world-temperature-record.html https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/an-invest... Long story short… both the precision and accuracy are very questionable, but not due to the instrumentation. The observer at that station during that time period was not doing a very good job. As far as precision specifically, During the period that observer was recording the station: > When rain fell at the ranch, recorded amounts were almost invariably in the amounts of 0.01”, 0.10”, 0.20”, and 0.30”. Whatever the instruments did (and that article makes a pretty conclusive case for them not having hit 134F), the observer recording them seems to have often filled in values that “felt right”, carried over previous days readings when he missed one, and just kind of eyeballed the actual measurements.
- nucleardog 2y ago
  Looks like maybe the broken images weren’t just my connection. This link has even more information (and working photos and charts!): https://stormbruiser.com/chase/2020/11/23/death-valleys-134f-record-temperature-study-part-one/ https://stormbruiser.com/chase/2020/11/23/death-valleys-134f... This provides a “summary” of the five part series: https://stormbruiser.com/chase/2020/11/11/death-valleys-improbable-record-temperature-of-134f/ https://stormbruiser.com/chase/2020/11/11/death-valleys-impr...

thebruce87m 2y ago

> so you were already rounding > your choice of rounding Just a reminder that none of it was my choice, it was straight from google: https://www.google.com/search?q=134+fahrenheit+to+celsius&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari https://www.google.com/search?q=134+fahrenheit+to+celsius&ie...

nucleardog 2y ago

> I tried finding information on the precision of the DV record and couldn't More than you could possible want to know, but: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/an-investigation-of-death-valleys-134f-world-temperature-record.html https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/an-invest... Long story short… both the precision and accuracy are very questionable, but not due to the instrumentation. The observer at that station during that time period was not doing a very good job. As far as precision specifically, During the period that observer was recording the station: > When rain fell at the ranch, recorded amounts were almost invariably in the amounts of 0.01”, 0.10”, 0.20”, and 0.30”. Whatever the instruments did (and that article makes a pretty conclusive case for them not having hit 134F), the observer recording them seems to have often filled in values that “felt right”, carried over previous days readings when he missed one, and just kind of eyeballed the actual measurements.

nucleardog 2y ago
Looks like maybe the broken images weren’t just my connection. This link has even more information (and working photos and charts!): https://stormbruiser.com/chase/2020/11/23/death-valleys-134f-record-temperature-study-part-one/ https://stormbruiser.com/chase/2020/11/23/death-valleys-134f... This provides a “summary” of the five part series: https://stormbruiser.com/chase/2020/11/11/death-valleys-improbable-record-temperature-of-134f/ https://stormbruiser.com/chase/2020/11/11/death-valleys-impr...