Weird that as the temperature lowered your count was doubling but then you strategically omitted 120, 121? It’s not a “flex” that it was hot (??)
I love these programmer types on HN that are always looking for some way to tell someone they’re wrong.
I know, let’s spend a few hours to plot every day it was 120, 121, 122, 123 on a chart, debate the role of “feels like” temperatures, debate what all the time means, and then we can have an Internet panel decide if 130 really does seem like a particularly hot day for someone from Palm Springs.
And by the way, since you’re so smart, how is 123 “no where close” to 130?
But you are wrong. I'm sorry you're upset that "programmer types" are telling you that... do you think it's better to allow misinformation to spread uncorrected? That doesn't seem very helpful.
Even according to @EliRivers's link, it only hit 121 twice. Unfortunately the article doesn't have 120, but given the distribution it's fair to assume it's only been a handful of times historically as well.
Nobody's talking about "feels like" temperatures (they don't exist on thermometers), and "all the time" doesn't need a debate -- it's obviously significantly more than once a summer, for example.
So in every possible way, it seems your statement that Palm Springs hit 120 all the time is 100% wrong. It would be better to just accept that graciously.
What it’s fair to assume is that Palm Springs has broken 120 multiple times per summer and over the course of many years yes I’d call this “all the time” — as in, not a rare occurrence. It would be better not to make a sport out of trying to prove people wrong when they’re not making a precise scientific statement in the first place and you don’t know what you’re talking about.
I love these programmer types on HN that are always looking for some way to tell someone they’re wrong.
I know, let’s spend a few hours to plot every day it was 120, 121, 122, 123 on a chart, debate the role of “feels like” temperatures, debate what all the time means, and then we can have an Internet panel decide if 130 really does seem like a particularly hot day for someone from Palm Springs.
And by the way, since you’re so smart, how is 123 “no where close” to 130?