The numbers lack randomness.
ABCNews World News Now National Temperature Index does follow a
pattern that makes sense rising and falling with the seasons.
It must be calculated in some manner or it wouldn’t rise and fall
so relatively well.
Somebody actually gives the numbers out to whomever puts the numbers
up on the screen. The question is who’s actually the source of the
numbers and how does he or she come by those numbers that do actually
appear to have some relative relationship to temperature readings.
Exactly, who?.. at ABC or for ABC calculated the numbers
537 degrees Fahrenheit / 281 degrees Celsius
for the ABCNews World News Now National Temperature Index?..
3:35am, 4:05 EDT broadcasts on WCVB-TV Needham Boston Channel 5
ABCNews World News Now National
Temperature Index
fri dec 13
537 degrees Fahrenheit / 281 degrees Celsius
wed dec 11
510 degrees Fahrenheit / 266 degrees Celsius
mon dec 9
494 degrees Fahrenheit / 257 degrees Celsius
fri dec 6
501 degrees Fahrenheit / 261 degrees Celsius
thurs dec 5
469 degrees Fahrenheit / 243 degrees Celsius
a. In detail, how did he make the calculation?..
b. Precisely, what cities were used?..
Speculative information
Some of the ideas people have come up with so far,
for example
[ http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=temperature%20index&safe=off&ie=ISO-8859-1&lr=&as_scoring=d&hl=en ]