Forecast for Dallas: 160°F with a chance of showers

Watts up with That? ^ | October 16, 2013 | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes, this is a real current temperature presented by NOAA/NWS for the forecast of Addison, TX near Dallas.

I checked the airport ASOS at Dallas Addison Airport (KADS) and sure enough, the reading is there:

Source: http://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KADS.html

This is likely an ASOS station failure, which is a fairly common occurance, like I pointed out in Honolulu a couple of years ago:

More on NOAA’s FUBAR Honolulu “record highs” ASOS debacle, PLUS finding a long lost GISS station

I find it amazing they don’t have a simple data sanity check built into the NOAA data dissemination system. This wouldn’t even pass in Death Valley. How many other incorrect temperatures get logged but never noticed because they aren’t so absurd as to be impossible?

h/t to D.B. Stealey and Moonbattery

[dfwgator]

Yeah, but it’s a dry heat.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Related...

The Polar Express is Leaving the Station: ‘Major cold air outbreak for most of the U.S. late next week’

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/10/the-polar-express-is-leaving-the-station/

[martin_fierro]

Lulz

[a fool in paradise]

Global warming no doubt.

[GeronL]

wow

[TADSLOS]

“no mas pantelones”

[Night Hides Not]

Yeah, but it’s a dry 160 degrees so it’s not so bad.

Good reason to put artificial turf on middle school football fields...saves on water and you don't have to worry about large cracks in the ground.