Husbandry vent

[Eric Alan]

So data should not be based on averages? what should it be based on? This is the average for Bangui.
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The hottest day average low is 69 and the coldest is 65. That would put the average low for the entire year at 67. Yaoundé, Cameroon average low for the year is 68. The average low for the year in Khartoum, Sudan is 73.5. The average low for the entire year in Tambacounda, Senegal is 72.5. I know what you are going to say.

I would say that the above information is only 2/365 accurate in the interpretation of the average low temperatures of these cities, and if the remaining 363 days were linear between those two points, it'd be 100% accurate. However, weather is not linear and one cannot simply average the low on the hottest day and the low on the coldest day to extrapolate the average low for the entire year.

Taking two average low temp data points from each month (the 1st and the 15th - still only 24/365 accurate) leads to the following annual low temp averages:
Bangui, Central African Republic: 70.79 (+3.79)
Yaoundé, Cameroon: 68.50 (+0.50)
Khartoum, Sudan: 76.88 (+3.38)
Tambacounda, Senegal: 74.79 (+2.29)
Accra, Ghana: 75.21 (-0.29)

As shown, the majority of the year's average low temps in these cities is warmer than simply the average between the two min/max dates. This simply means that it's warmer more than it's cooler during the year in these cities (for the most part).

Not that all of the analysis matters much in the grand scheme of things when it comes to keeping our animals - I'm just a sucker for accurate information and love to data mine these kinds of things (to a fault).

Now - back to the hugging and koombaya!