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The dumbest thing I've heard all week
By oddjob60 on Mon, 03/10/2008 - 7:57pm
Let me begin by saying that I fervently hope I am wrong in what I thought I heard on Fox 25 last night. But it was bantered about a few times, so I don't think I'm wrong.
During the pre-weather chit-chat, the meteorologist (I think it was Kevin Lemanowicz) opined that with the earlier shift to Daylight Saving Time, it would be interesting to watch what happens to all those weather records, since there's more sunlight, so it'll get warmer. I guess he forgot that DST only changes the time of sunrise and sunset-- it doesn't alter Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Did I really hear this? It's so dumb, and neither of the anchors even questioned it, that I seriously wonder.
If he did say it, then that meteorology degree isn't holding up very well.
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Length of Day a Result of Tilt of Earth's Axis
The variation in the length of the day is not a direct result of the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
Instead, it is caused by the fact that the Earth's axis is tilted more than 22 degrees away from perpendicular to its orbital plane.
During the Earth's orbit when the North Pole tilts away from the Sun, the length of the day is shorter than 12 hours in the Northern Hemisphere. When the Earth has passed around to the other side of its orbit, the North Pole tilts towards the Sun, resulting in a day that is longer than 12 hours in the Northern Hemisphere.
Variations in the length of the day only occurs because the Earth's axis of rotation is tilted.
Yes, you're right, that meteorologist and those on-air
"personalities"journalists are boneheaded.More hours to photograph cops!
Seriously, guys, I think they were joking. Last year there were some tongue-in-cheek "Emily Littella" esque letters to papers - usually small papers - about Daylight Savings Time contributing to global warming. This has become somewhat of a joke, even though we are a good 3 weeks ahead of 1 April.
Yes, but--
Yes, but the angle of the Earth's axis relative to the sun depends on where we are in our orbit...
His point was about the
His point was about the recordkeeping actually. The temperature at 5 PM on Saturday would theoretically be recorded at 6 PM on Sunday. He said a few times that it was only interesting for those that kept track of the hour by hour temps not folks in general.
I totally missed that part
But if so, glad that he wasn't totally whacked out.
Kevin from Heaven
I think sometimes Kevin the weather dude gets ah...um..
tongue tied around Maria from Foxboro.
Ha!
This is a traditional joke among the storm chasing community. One more hour of daylight means more energy for t-storms! *grin* Either he was joking and didn't get the response he wanted, or he really DOESN'T think things through.
No surprise that the anchors didn't question it. Having been a broadcast meteorologist myself, they RARELY listen to the weathercast.
Daylight spending time
What we really need is some daylight spending time. If we save up enough daylight in the summer, then we can spend it in the winter to drive down our heating bills!