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Tracking the season's coldest air thus far


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CPK didn't hit 32.

You're right, looks like they got down to at least 25...

KCPK 041220Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR M04/M07 A3008 RMK AO2

I was talking about Central Park not Norfolk-Chesapeake Airport :P It does look like they briefly touched 0C though...

KNYC 041151Z AUTO VRB06KT 10SM CLR 00/M04 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP120 T00001044 10006 20000 56005 TSNO

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You once said you live at one of the higher points in town. Thus because inversions generally develop on cold clear mornings when the atmosphere is stable, it is not surprising that your temps don't fall off much. Always remember that a valley floor will be colder than a high spot in that situation...

Yeah it's really impossible for me to radiate as I'm at the top of a massive hill at 350' elevation.

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You're right, looks like they got down to at least 25...

KCPK 041220Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR M04/M07 A3008 RMK AO2

I was talking about Central Park not Norfolk-Chesapeake Airport :P It does look like they briefly touched 0C though...

KNYC 041151Z AUTO VRB06KT 10SM CLR 00/M04 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP120 T00001044 10006 20000 56005 TSNO

Dude, CPK is a common abbreviation for Central Park. As SACRUS mentioned, we missed by half a degree.

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Dude, CPK is a common abbreviation for Central Park. As SACRUS mentioned, we missed by half a degree.

Don't they round that? I've never seen an official low that wasn't a whole number. There must have been many times where the official low was 32 but it was actually a bit above that.

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Don't they round that? I've never seen an official low that wasn't a whole number. There must have been many times where the official low was 32 but it was actually a bit above that.

New York Central Park, NY did indeed reach 32F for a low at 727 AM EST. See today's climate statement. Besides, I doubt the METAR was wrong when it said the low was 32F for the 6-hour period ending at 12Z. There are no fractions or tenths of degrees in ASOS. ASOS reports 5-minute average temperature in Fahrenheit rounded to the nearest degree. Because the METAR standard uses Celsius in the main body, that integer Fahrenheit temperature is converted. The T group in the remarks section gives you the fractional Celsius number just so you can get back to Fahrenheit. Otherwise we'd have temperatures skipping roughly every other degree in Fahrenheit (i.e. no 31, 33, 35, 38, and so on). Often people take that fractional Celsius temperature and try to infer tenths of Fahrenheit which is not correct and leads to double temperature conversion error. This is why when you convert those tenths of Celsius degrees you always end up with tenths of a degree Fahrenheit of .8, .9, or .1, .2.

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CDUS41 KOKX 042137
CLINYC


CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
437 PM EST SAT DEC 4 2010


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...THE CENTRAL PARK NY CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 4 2010...
VALID TODAY AS OF 0400 PM LOCAL TIME.

CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1971 TO 2000
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1869 TO 2010


WEATHER ITEM   OBSERVED TIME   RECORD YEAR NORMAL DEPARTURE LAST
               VALUE   (LST)  VALUE   	VALUE  FROM      YEAR
                                                 NORMAL
..................................................................
TEMPERATURE (F)
TODAY
 MAXIMUM 		40    126 PM  74    1998  46 	-6   	52
 MINIMUM 		32    727 AM  10    1882  35 	-3   	44
 AVERAGE 		36                        41 	-5   	48

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Bangor, PA

HIgh of 35 today. Nice, legit., winter day.

Reached the low-40s here, but hardly felt like it especially during the times when we had a lot of thick mid-level clouds and a breeze. Definitely going to feel like winter this week. We just need to get in on the fun the Great Lakes states have had.

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