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I know this will sound foolish, as if I should know, but I'm confused:
Today, Wednesday, KSL posts temperatures as "50" high and "20" low.
I always thought that the "50" was the high temperature to happen on Wednesday, and the "20" would be the low for Wednesday night (as in before Thursday morning).
My husband says that the "50" will be the high for Wednesday, but the "20" was the lowest temperature on Wednesday morning (before the sun comes up Wednesday am).
So what does the low of "20" reflect?
Marijo B. **********************************************************
We've talked about this before but since it's a popular question, so we'll discuss it again. Weather graphics and maps can be totally confusing. The confusion only gets work if different stations present the same information in different ways.
Here at KSL, if you look at our 7 day forecasts, you'll see panels with each day at the top. There's a high and a low temperature. The low temperature corresponds to the day it's on. So if it says Wednesday 50/20 then the high on Wednesday is 50 and the low is 20 on the morning of that date. Thursday's low is just that, it's the low temperature on the morning of Thursday or what some people like to call 'Wednesday Night'.
The low you saw in the example is the low listed for Wednesday morning.
Answered by KSL Meteorologist Dina Freedman.
