Although we are scheduled to get some rain tonight and over the next few days it still looks like it may be one of the driest July every recorded in the area.
As of the 27th we have only had about 3.5 mm for the month, this is more than the incredibly dry July of 1916 when we only had 1.8 mm. To get second we have to have less than the 19.8 mm seen in 1919.
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Is this skewed as a result of the vandalism?
I've always wondered - when you pull data from that far back, as in 1916, just how accurate is it against todays measurements?
If my Gramps was right they would wet a finger and hold it high in the air for temperature and then spit for wind direction.
To the comment from Randy: this is always something that puzzles me. Although technology has evolved since 1916 and earlier, that doesn't mean that people did poor science back then. In fact, I would argue they did better science than we do now. How would it feel to know that in 95 years, someone looking at data collected today is "questionable" or "inaccurate" because of its age, and therefore negates its usefulness?
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