High in T.O. was not that high


I just want to point out some facts regarding the very high temperatures experienced on Sept. 6 and last week’s Acorn article, “The mercury just kept rising.”

First, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website lists four weather station sites along the 23 corridor between roughly Avenida de Los Arboles on the north to the 101 Freeway on the south.

These are designated TOCC1 (Civic Center), TO (TO High School), SE146 (home adjacent to Oakbrook Park), and D7457 (open space along Kevington Road).

On Sept. 6 these stations recorded peak temperatures of 119F, 112F, 112F and 111F respectively.

The National Weather Service website uses only the TO station to report data for Thousand Oaks. Further, as seen in the data above, the Civic Center data was a statistical outlier almost two standard deviations greater than the average of the other stations.

It was extraordinarily hot on Sunday at 112F. However it was not 119F in Thousand Oaks.

Terry Cavicchi
Thousand Oaks