Re: temperature

Joe Ramirez wrote:
On Jan 19, 11:16 pm, Trevor Smithson <trevor_smith...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:16:43 -0600, wen...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Your Daily Bradnam just said on Eurosport that the temp on court yesterday
was 64 degrees C. That can't *possibly* be right, can it? Did he switch
the digits and mean 46?
wg
No, it's not right, at least not the ambient air temperature. Maybe
they did a reading right next to some concrete or something.

Sometime when TV types report the temperature "on court," they are
referring to the actual surface temperature of the court itself.
Baking in the sun, a hard court can get far hotter than the air
temperature (this is another reason many players prefer natural
surfaces -- clay and grass -- which stay cooler). The players feel
this heat through the soles of their shoes,


Most wear 2 pairs of socks for that reason.



and perhaps to an extent
through convection, but it's certainly not the same as if the air
temperature were the same as the surface of the court. As TT has
pointed out, 64 C is higher than the highest ambient temperature ever
recorded on earth, so the announcers are being very sloppy with the
way they are reporting this information.

Joe Ramirez



It's clear they meant court temp in the papers.

The ambient air temp reached 40 today.
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