h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So, it's doing it in other skins. Good to know.

Yesterday 56/77 (20% chance of rain) (actual: 60/83, no rain)
Today 56/71 (20% chance of rain)
Friday 47/77
Saturday 50/84 (10% chance of rain)
Sunday 51/80 (20% chance of rain)
Monday 63/79 (20% chance of rain)
Tuesday 66/78 (70% chance of rain)
Wednesday 53/73

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +14
Average min/max for today's date: 48/69
Record high temperature for today: 91 (2009)
Record low temperature for today: 23 (1935)

-19 new posts now. Or will it be -20 after this?

Indeed it was.

Yesterday 56/71 (20% chance of rain) (actual: 53/69, no rain)
Today 47/77
Saturday 49/85
Sunday 52/80 (10% chance of rain)
Monday 63/79 (20% chance of rain)
Tuesday 67/80 (60% chance of rain)
Wednesday 51/72
Thursday 45/74

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +2
Average min/max for today's date: 49/69
Record high temperature for today: 89 (1932)
Record low temperature for today: 23 (1922)

Yesterday 47/77 (actual: 45/78)
Today 49/85
Sunday 54/81 (10% chance of rain)
Monday 64/77 (20% chance of rain)
Tuesday 66/81 (50% chance of rain)
Wednesday 52/74
Thursday 44/76
Friday 58/80

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +3
Average min/max for today's date: 49/69
Record high temperature for today: 87 (2006, 1975)
Record low temperature for today: 21 (1922)

Yesterday 49/85 (actual: 49/85)
Today 54/81 (10% chance of rain)
Monday 65/79 (40% chance of rain)
Tuesday 64/79 (20% chance of rain)
Wednesday 49/74
Thursday 43/77
Friday 58/83 (10% chance of rain)
Saturday 60/75 (10% chance of rain)

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +8
Average min/max for today's date: 49/70
Record high temperature for today: 88 (1904)
Record low temperature for today: 19 (1980)

Yesterday 54/81 (10% chance of rain) (actual: 58/80, no rain)
Today 65/79 (40% chance of rain)
Tuesday 65/78 (20% chance of rain)
Wednesday 49/73
Thursday 43/77
Friday 60/85 (10% chance of rain)
Saturday 52/62 (10% chance of rain)
Sunday 43/71

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +10
Average min/max for today's date: 49/70
Record high temperature for today: 89 (1901)
Record low temperature for today: 18 (1943)

This is getting very silly. It's up to -24 posts now, and it'll be -25 after this one.

I'm starting to double check all the forecast temperatures now before I post because they're jumping up or down so much on individual days, and by several degrees, that I wonder if I'd misread it or fat-fingered it the day before. No, they're just jumping up and down a lot.

Yesterday 65/79 (40% chance of rain) (actual: 66/79, trace of rain)
Today 65/78 (20% chance of rain)
Wednesday 49/73
Thursday 44/79
Friday 61/84 (10% chance of rain)
Saturday 61/72 (40% chance of rain)
Sunday 44/63
Monday 41/76

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +13
Average min/max for today's date: 50/70
Record high temperature for today: 91 (1991)
Record low temperature for today: 24 (2002)

Yesterday 65/78 (20% chance of rain) (actual: 53/76, 0.31" rain)
Today 49/73
Thursday 44/77
Friday 61/86 (20% chance of rain)
Saturday 62/64 (20% chance of rain)
Sunday 44/67
Monday 40/77
Tuesday 46/80

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +5
Average min/max for today's date: 50/70
Record high temperature for today: 91 (1991)
Record low temperature for today: 25 (1917)

Yesterday 49/73 (actual: 50/72)
Today 44/77
Friday 60/86 (20% chance of rain)
Saturday 64/62 (20% chance of rain)
Sunday 43/64
Monday 40/78
Tuesday 45/83
Wednesday 59/86 (10% chance of rain)

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +1
Average min/max for today's date: 50/71
Record high temperature for today: 96 (1991)
Record low temperature for today: 25 (1901)

Yesterday 44/77 (actual: 42/75)
Today 60/86 (20% chance of rain)
Saturday 64/73 (40% chance of rain)
Sunday 42/63
Monday 38/79
Tuesday 45/84
Wednesday 58/86 (10% chance of rain)
Thursday 58/90

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: -1
Average min/max for today's date: 50/71
Record high temperature for today: 87 (1951)
Record low temperature for today: 24 (1943)

Yesterday 60/86 (20% chance of rain) (actual: 60/84, no rain)
Today 64/73 (40% chance of rain)
Sunday 42/65
Monday 38/81
Tuesday 46/86
Wednesday 57/82 (20% chance of rain)
Thursday 59/88
Friday 65/89

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: -12
Average min/max for today's date: 50/71
Record high temperature for today: 89 (1918)
Record low temperature for today: 29 (1996)

The clocks went forward last night. As you know I welcome the clock change and hope it isn't abolished, but this is too early. We'll get longer evenings, true, but now the sunrise is not far off 8 o'clock, and it won't get back to where it was yesterday morning until the end of April. I hate getting up in the dark.

Yesterday 64/73 (40% chance of rain) (actual: 47/78, trace of rain)
Today 42/65
Monday 39/81
Tuesday 47/85
Wednesday 56/85 (20% chance of rain)
Thursday 56/90
Friday 65/90 (10% chance of rain)
Saturday 58/78

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +2
Average min/max for today's date: 51/71
Record high temperature for today: 90 (1918)
Record low temperature for today: 25 (1932)

I have to disagree with you on changing the clocks. I do not like it. But what I fear is that we go to permanent DST. Texas is very likely to put this up to the voters, and I'm fairly certain many people will not think this through and vote for permanent DST. There is a reason Standard time is called standard: Noon is supposed to happen when the sun is at its highest in the center of the time zone. Many workers have some leeway on when they set their own hours now, so if they want to get up god awfully early in the winter, then they should have at it.
I'd rather sleep in. Time is arbitrary enough without moving everyone an hour ahead.

For me neither option is satisfactory all year round, not in these latitudes anyway. Further north (in this hemisphere) it wouldn't matter so much in the summer because the daylight hours are so much longer. Standard time all year round in Austin would mean sunrise at 5.30am around the summer solstice and an early sunset around 7.30pm, but around midwinter on year-round summer time that sun wouldn't rise until after 8am. I'm pretty sure I've got that the right way round.

I question the idea that the midday point is supposed to happen when the sun is at its zenith, in other words half way between sunrise and sunset. Perhaps that was true when we had no means of lighting the darkness and we rose and retired with the sun and noon didn't actually mean anything because there were no clocks, but ever since we invented ways to see things after it got dark (candles, oil lamps, electric light) our hours of operation shifted and lengthened so that we can stay up later, so midday (not noon), meaning the half way point between rising and retiring, is later in the day for the majority of people who work 'normal' hours, so for me the sun's zenith should be half way between, let's say, 7am and 11pm, which would be 3pm. Admittedly that is pretty late in the day so let's go with 2pm instead.

Right, I need to do this bloody weather report!

Yesterday 42/65 (actual: 45/64)
Today 39/81
Tuesday 46/85
Wednesday 57/84 (20% chance of rain)
Thursday 57/92
Friday 62/91
Saturday 58/80
Sunday 53/81

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +6
Average min/max for today's date: 51/72
Record high temperature for today: 92 (1954)
Record low temperature for today: 24 (1948)

Historically, noon absolutely was when the sun was the highest. Before we had time zones, that's how local time was determined. I guess you could call me an 'originalist'.

Whenever there's a TV documentary about the history of railways in the UK there's a better than even chance that they'll mention 'railway time' and how clocks across the country had to be synchronised for the first time, time having previously been solar based, so that people didn't miss their train or have to adjust their timepieces, and presumably for the people working in signal boxes too. It's pretty important for them to know when a train is due and which line it should be on

Yesterday 39/81 (actual: 40/79)
Today 46/85
Wednesday 58/87 (20% chance of rain)
Thursday 59/94
Friday 62/92
Saturday 58/80
Sunday 52/77
Monday 46/81

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: -1
Average min/max for today's date: 51/72
Record high temperature for today: 92 (1967, 1955)
Record low temperature for today: 19 (1948)

Can you imagine living in China with its one time zone!? It spans 5.

Yesterday 46/85 (actual: 47/84)
Today 58/87 (20% chance of rain)
Thursday 59/93
Friday 61/93 (10% chance of rain)
Saturday 60/80
Sunday 50/78
Monday 46/83
Tuesday 56/85

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +4
Average min/max for today's date: 51/72
Record high temperature for today: 92 (1904)
Record low temperature for today: 18 (1948)

Still on negative posts, but at least I managed to get straight to the MP page without going the long way round for the first time in several days.

I might need the a/c today and tomorrow.

Yesterday 58/87 (20% chance of rain) (actual: 57/90, trace of rain)
Today 59/93
Friday 62/94 (20% chance of rain)
Saturday 59/81
Sunday 50/81
Monday 48/85
Tuesday 58/86
Wednesday 63/81

Yesterday's departure from the historical daily average: +12
Average min/max for today's date: 52/72
Record high temperature for today: 92 (1971, 1967, 1918)
Record low temperature for today: 23 (1948, 1932)