Weather Trivia
Well, yeah, in some circles all discussion of weather is trivial. Nevertheless.... The KPIX weather chick has a daily item on the Chronicle's weather page. Usually it's nothing notable, but the other day she said that there's never been a temperature of 100 degrees or greater recorded in the United States in December or January. I would not have guessed this. And though this claim was made by a professional TV weather chick and published in a big-city daily newspaper, I must say, I remain skeptical.
Update: Immediately after making this post, I Googled the issue. Took about five minutes to find contradiction to the 100-degree assertion:
According to Information Please: The highest temperature ever recorded for the month of December occurred on December 8, 1938, in La Mesa, Calif. (elevation 539 ft), where the temperature reached 100°F.
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Yeah, Roberta has ultra cred. But even that can't get her off the hook for not taking advantage of the opportunity to say something interesting (and factually correct) in her space on the Chron's lame weather page.
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