I sure hope the temp is going up.If the global temperature is going up so should the temperature of small towns. To increase temperature at your thermometer is easy, to reduce it is hard over the years of recording. Example, you can collect temperature data of many city’s that show warming over the last 70 years, but some small towns near large city's show cooling. A much worse case.


Type in search box: Average Temp Marion Ohio
click current week and click all. A chart from 1940 to 2010 shows a falling temp of -0.03 deg. F per year. The same is true for Kenton and Lima and a lot of other towns that did not put there thermometer on the cement in a parking lot, or on the roof like Columbus.[I guess that makes it man made.]Type in search box: Average Temp Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin click current week and click all. A chart from 1940 to 2010 shows a falling temp of -0.087 deg. F per year. I'm an old fart that remembers orange groves at the Florida, Georgia border. If we were in global warming all temperatures would be going up. This sample is every where, even England. Warming would be nice! I would love to have our orange groves back again! Some deeper water would not hurt anything either.