A small, white box with horizontal slats is a familiar sight at weather stations around the UK, and around the world. This louvered housing for thermometers measuring air temperature was invented in ...

Devices used to measure the wet-bulb temperature include a dry-bulb thermometer, wet-bulb thermometer and globe thermometer. The National Weather Service recommends the wet-bulb temperature for anyone ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — 2022 was one of the warmest years on record. How do we know? NASA and NOAA are partners in data collection, study and modelling. KXAN spoke with Rachel Tilling, a polar scientist at ...

As recent fervor for storm chasing and the national pastime of doubting meteorological predictions demonstrates, weather can be a tricky beast to pin down. To truly wrangle it and capture its data, ...

Austin temperatures on Thursday are expected to hit 101 degrees, while the muggy air will make it feel more like 104. We’ve all heard the saying, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” to describe ...

If you need to measure the temperature of something, chances are good that you could think up half a dozen ways to do it, pretty much all of which would involve some kind of thermometer, thermistor, ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - It’s Winter Weather Preparedness Week. All week, our team of meteorologists will have important tips and reminders to make sure you’re ready for whatever winter brings. Today, we ...

FARGO — It seems simple enough to hold a thermometer out in the sun in order to get the temperature “in the sun,” but this is fundamentally wrong. Air is not heated up very much by sunlight. The rays ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – There are several ways to measure the severity of a winter season. The News10NBC First Alert meteorologists ...

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