Day 135 - Wild night
Last night was a wild night. That is, at the Crosstimber Micronet, the land that I own near Norman, Oklahoma. If you didn't know why this piece of land is so special or why I'm using it for my Ph.D. research, a graph of the temperature last night should give you a hint.
This graph shows the temperature during the night at 5 of the weather stations located there. One thing that immediately jumps out is the cold temperatures. At the Norman airport, the station nearest the Micronet (approx. 17 miles away), the low temperature last night was 24°F (-4C). At the coldest Micronet site (blue), the low temperature was 6°F (-14C).
But look at the differences between the various sites. At one point in the night, the coldest site (blue) was 22°F (12C) cooler than the warmest site (red). This 22-degree temperature difference is across a distance of only 500 feet.
To put this in perspective, the temperature range across my little 5 acres was larger than the temperature range measured across the entire UK, from southern England to northern Scotland.
5 Comments:
wow...
Now Matt, when you decide to start bulding your dream house, you let me know so we can take this data and implement passive heating and cooling techniques within the design. I think you'll get a big kick out of that, and I'll be excited to use such complete data!!!
But doesn't the blue line represent the 0.5m temperature? That can't be compared to the airport. However, the purple line is just as impressive. I thought about going out there last night to see what it was like, but decided against it because it was late. :-)
How do you have the site set up? Last time I saw it you had just bought it and took me out there and we walked around.
No!! The blue line is at the standard 1.5 m, same as the airport. Same sensor too, I believe. The 0.5 m one is not plotted, but it's colder than any of those. I think that one had a low around 4F.
Yikes!
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