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77 °F Forecast | Road Cams Thursday, September 16, 2004 Today's News | Classifieds | Autos | Homes | Jobs | Tempo | Health | Community | Home Delivery SECTIONS Home Page Local News Sports Business Obituaries Life Opinion - Politics Tempo AP News Weather Classified Archives Site Map SPECIAL SECTIONS Since We Asked Outdoor Journal How To Guide Wellness Connection Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Wedding Guide Rogue Valley's Finest EXTRA Newspaper in Education Personals Movie Times TV Times E The People MARKETPLACE Find a Car Find a Home Find a Job Classifieds Place an ad eSouthernOregon Automotive Communities Entertainment Publications Recreation Calendar CUSTOMER SERVICE Frequent Questions Advertising Information Home Delivery Employment Contact Us Media Kit Network Affiliate Oregon Road Conditions & Cams Email Story to a Friend August 20, 2004 Since You Asked Ashland’s high temp is a matter of degrees On the Mail Tribune’s weather page, the temperature for Ashland is always one day older than all the other cities. If you can get the latest temperatures from every other city in Oregon, why not Ashland’s, especially since it’s so close to Medford? — Robert J., Ashland It’s not a question of geography, Robert. It’s a question of timing. Some people think things are different in Ashland. Sometimes they’re right, and this is one example. Advertisement First, you need to know how the newspaper’s weather page comes together. The raw data is from the National Weather Service. AccuWeather, a Pennsylvania-based commercial weather service, compiles the information from the weather service for the newspaper. Much of the weather data is collected from observation stations staffed by volunteers. Data is collected at various times of the day, but in some locations, measurements are recorded only once a day. Many stations collect their information late enough in the day to include the day’s high temperature. In Ashland, however, the temperature and precipitation data is collected daily in the morning, so it includes the high for the previous day and the overnight low. For the Mail Tribune’s morning newspaper, AccuWeather compiles our weather page in the afternoon for the following day. So for, say, Wednesday’s paper, AccuWeather gets Ashland’s Tuesday data, which includes Monday’s high temperature. Send questions to "Since You Asked," Mail Tribune Newsroom, P.O. Box 1108, Medford, OR 97501; by fax to 541-776-4376; or by e-mail to [email protected] . We’re sorry, but the volume of questions received prevents us from answering all of them. Mail Tribune Home Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life Opinion - Politics | AP News | Archives | Site Map E Southern Oregon | Classified Copyright © 1997-2004 Mail Tribune. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions Website Feedback ADVERTISERS A D V E R T I S E R S SPECIAL SECTIONS Auto Finder Job Finder Home Finder Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Tempo Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Since We Asked Outdoor Journal Moving to Southern Oregon? Volunteer Opportunities