Tony,

Great to hear your part in the tale of punching through the 100 deg. temperature line for the Britannic Islands on Sunday, August 10th @ 3.30 p.m.

You say, "set at the approved height above ground".

Tony can you state what the "approved ht." is for your outdoorsman thermometer?

I've been told that the standard for my outdoorsman thermometer is:

in the shade
5' above snow/earth/grass
away from building & concrete

More info @

http://www.weights-and-measures.com

And topic:

Common Temperature Scale

Tony,

Apologies for the above bullet-in-board title, a computer chip must have gone loco somewhere.

Well, well, apparently xcole is not a robot after all: it's got feelings !

Official 'shade' temperatures all used to be recorded in a white-painted (reflects sunlight, according to my old physics teacher), wooden-slatted Stevenson's screen (no sun could enter, but the air could), which as I recall was indeed about 5' above the ground and placed at least x feet (can't remember how many) from the nearest building.

My own one is at the right height but *is* near the house, for which I make a downward adjustment of 1 degree F