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Here is a sample of NYC area temperatures at 6pm Sunday

Central Park 71 Kennedy Airport 63 Newark Airport 77

Breezy Point Queens 59.

Especially in the spring, depending on wind direction, proximity to the 55 degree ocean waters can

at times, result in a large temperature difference over a small distance. For a person living in southern Brooklyn and experiencing a temperature of 62 degrees, it's really not too helpful to turn on the radio and hear that it's 80 in midtown Manhattan (as happened recently).

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I miss Dilbert.

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I thought I would miss Dilbert, but it turned out I didn't.

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My brother was a senior telephone executive and actually met the 'pointy hair" guy in his work. He liked him. And in my work with Government and Library executives, I found much in Dilbert to be true and funny. So I had only two strips I followed - Oop and Dilbert - and now am down to one. But it is still fun.

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I miss people with whom I used to have a close relationship. But either they changed or I did, and the relationship is gone. So it is with Dilbert. We had a great time together until we didn't.

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The only radio station we listen to is (now, sadly) part of a statewide network of public radio stations (although it is older than the flagship station). Much of the "local" news and most of the weather reporting is pretty Tuscaloosa-centric, though the weather guy (who frequently tells us it's going to be "cloddy") does at least give temperatures for various parts of the state (usually wrong for the Gulf Coast--at least as we experience it near Mobile Bay).

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You could simply turn off the radio if hearing simplistic temperature reports bothers you so much. Considering the pitiful condition of our country, politically, socially and infrastructurally, I can't imagine why anything this inane would bother anybody.

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It is possible to be bothered by something, and something else, simultaneously. It doesn't imply equal or equivalent bother.

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Having lived in Chicago and Denver before the D.C. area, I can tell you that big lakes and elevation changes make a difference you’d want to know about. However, if I, an old person in her 60s, get the hourly temperature and precipitation information and radar for any location I want from various apps then I am guessing most people do (even my 88 yer old mother gets weather alerts on her phone). I do go to the Channel 4 app for the videos to get more color on what’s happening. Is that 50% rain chance with a lightning bolt going to amount to not much, or huge trees coming down? How confident are they about that rain chance 6 days out? They could spend more time on that stuff.

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But I was stipulating that the temperatures hardly vary, place to place.

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I note that your antagonist in L'Affaire Curry will appear in the upcoming Sports Illustrated "Swimsuit Issue," (to be released May 12) wearing only what look to be several strategically placed chapatis. I leave it to you to inform Padma Lakshmi that she is likely adding to the objectification of half of the population. Looks like a more serious sin of "omission," than the one of commission for which she took you to task.

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Mr Gene Weingarten also intends to appear in this year's Swimsuit Issue, in his case wearing nothing more than a tin of old bay and a tactfully placed tomato plant.

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Unfortunately, I can't unread your comment. The mind and my entire central nervous system bogles.

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The business of reciting almost identical temperatures (and often weather in general) in nearby areas usually has more to do with marketing --- and an attempt at personalization in particular --- than for any practical reason --- the possible existence of an actual microclimate or two notwithstanding.. However, depending on the locale and its weather patterns (which are probably changing), there can be a reasonably wide variation in conditions from one sector to another, especially large urban centers to suburban and exurban or rural areas. This is especially true with summer temperatures. Cities often have urban "heat islands," where temperature differences can often be some 20° higher than surrounding areas.

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True, but this is seldom true, and I am specifying those vastly most common reports where there is essentially no difference in temperatures across the region. Yes, I would of course I would want to know if it's 20 degrees hotter at the airport than at my home, 5 miles away, because it would probably be heralding the end of the world.

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Not in Texas, it could be a "blue norther" on the way.

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