The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-19
PERHAPS It MIGHT
Be HOTTER WHERE?
Instrument That Records Tenn
perature Breaks Record,
but Is Still Working.

Take Il pessimist. now, and he
couldn't find bit of consolation In yes
tcrday's weather In Salt Lake. But It's
different with an optimist. An optimist
is always alert to point out boastfuly
something that his town has that no
other town can show. The optimist had
a little the better of the argument yes
terday. for Salt Lake was almost the
hottest town on the map. Only two other
towns showed better work at the bat.
They were Phoenix, Ariz-, and Oklahoma
City
Officially, Salt, Lake was 96 degrees
not Yesterday, Phoenix was LOG and Ok
lahoma oS However, II isn't quite fair
to put Phoenix in as a competitor any
moro than II would be TO enter Yuma,
and therefore Salt Lake is entitled to
second place in the league standings.
Usually people don't question the ac-
curacy OF anything that bears the brand
official" but Yesterday they jumped
fetal" temperature wasn't what they
were eating. and stood by the street
level markings The government kiosk;
which is Just as 'officiaf''-or should
building, said 1t was 102 in one place
and a little more than 100 in another.
The place where IL said 1t was 102 was
the card upon which the s!phon sets its
purple line. The place where 1t said 1t
was little more than 100 was the
thermometer which hangs hard by The
ing to give the siphon the best of it
and accept it's figures-they were more
In accord with the suffering multitude S
feelings.
town whether there was any possible
way OF determining the difference be-
tween the heat on top of the Boston
TO go and hang thermometers in DIFF
ferent places and sometimes they found
that it was ten degrees hotter in the
official station. and sometimes they
found that II was five or six. When the
government sent Salt Lake IT'S kiosk
there was every reason TO believe that
the VeXing problem had been solved
But the solution seems to be as far off
as ever for now the ordinary street
thermometer doesn't agree with the
kiosk. and the kiosk doesn't agree with
Itself.
Along about the time when It first
began TO get hot In Salt Lake tacit
agreement was was entered into among the
genuinely hot the kiosk should be six
degrees hotter than the official obser-
vatory., Accepting that arrangement as
fair basis for computation. the siphon
was right yesterday with It's I02 de-
grees.
The reason for any difference at all
existing between the kiosk and the Bos-
ton building instruments lies in The fact
that the thermometers on top of the
skyscraper are free from undue Influ-
eHCe. ike paupeT maFlnE VIII, and
are kept In the open air. getting the
benefit OF free circulation. On the other
hand. the instruments In the kiosk are
hedged about with evil omens, so to
speak. They are surrounded by metal
castings. and metal gets mighty hot.
and then too. they given a power
| ful help by the radiation from the
superheated asphalt pavements
The 90 degrees reported "official'
arc three degrees higher than the previ-
Gus record for this summer. and, as one
man expressed it whose grammar has
run to seed. three degrees is some de-
grees in this land of the free. believe
me-"
! The humidity yesterday contributed its
mite toward keeping the pores open. 1t
wasn't so allflred humid. but II was
humid enough The humidity began the
dny with a percentage Of 26 and wound
| up at O'Clock with a percentage of 16.
so that the mean was 81 Twenty
per cent OF saturation is no little thing
to fool with hot day.
| The prediction for today Is that it will
be- fair: 1t doesn't say anything about
being cooler.