StarTribune Hides Freezing Temps
So I wake up this morning and it -23 on my thermometer and I wan't to see how cold it is in northern Minnesota. So I go to the StarTribune's website and I find this map.
Which makes it look like all of Minnesota is in the 0º to -10º range, which doesn't make sense because my thermometer reads -23, and if you look at the color key on the top they only have colors down to -10ºF. Does Startribune.com think that anything below -10º isn't news worthy? Plus the whole state should at least be in the white because the high right now for the whole state is in Minneapolis and it is -12F.
So I go to weather.com and find this map.
Although weather.com only has one color for anything below zero they at least show the numeric temps on their map so you can see that northern Minnesota has been -30ºF for 2 days now. Shouldn't that be news, especially in the state where it is happening? There should be 4 color bands in Minnesota alone, ALL BELOW ZERO. This makes me think that startribune.com might be complicit in hiding the decline.
There are no 60º temps anywhere in the country, would it be so hard to make the 50s red 40s orange and so on, so that each 10º temp range would have it's own color band? I think it would be more news worthy the further it gets below zero, but everyone seems to be hiding it.
Cross-posted and comments welcome at Minnesotans For Global Warming.
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