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[gpsnavigator]

Folks-

Just wondering if anyone else saw this: apparently, Sussex airport recorded a low of 9 and a high of 63 today. Lonnie Quinn on Channel 2 reported this on both the 5:30 and 6:30 news as a 12 hour 52 degree temperature swing. Rutgers website verifies 63 degrees. The chart shows a temp of 12 at 7:00 am, having warmed to 63 by noon. WOW!!

What do you all think? Thermometer malfunction, or could it really have happened? I live and work not too far from there and both locations only reached the upper 40s that I'm aware of. Why would one location so quickly reach 63?

[rgwp96]

gpsnavigator, on Jan 23 2009, 11:33 PM, said:

Folks-

Just wondering if anyone else saw this: apparently, Sussex airport recorded a low of 9 and a high of 63 today. Lonnie Quinn on Channel 2 reported this on both the 5:30 and 6:30 news as a 12 hour 52 degree temperature swing. Rutgers website verifies 63 degrees. The chart shows a temp of 12 at 7:00 am, having warmed to 63 by noon. WOW!!

What do you all think? Thermometer malfunction, or could it really have happened? I live and work not too far from there and both locations only reached the upper 40s that I'm aware of. Why would one location so quickly reach 63?

lonnie is a moron, If he checked the hrly reports he would see the 15 point jump in 1 hr than a 18 point drop in another hr, Its clearly an error as the other nws sussex ob was only 42 for the high. Than he tries and makes it look believable by posting another station(probably form wunderground) to back it up. The guy is horrible.

[icehater]

rgwp96, on Jan 23 2009, 11:40 PM, said:

lonnie is a moron, If he checked the hrly reports he would see the 15 point jump in 1 hr than a 18 point drop in another hr, Its clearly an error as the other nws sussex ob was only 42 for the high. Than he tries and makes it look believable by posting another station(probably form wunderground) to back it up. The guy is horrible.

Lonnie - with that much depth of character in serious weather reporting?? No chace in a million years. The guy is a robot without a knowledge base, so it never even occurred to him that something was wrong..