How... Hot... Is iiiiiit in February?

For Christmas, I bought myself some thermometers. Strange kid, I know. The thing is, I cannot find good data on what the weather is around here, let alone what it is expected to be. The BBC predicts thunderstorms and rain when there's not a cloud in the sky and the temperature prediction never varies.

So at my lunch break (or another afternoon break) I take a thermometer outside and set it down in the shade. Then I walk around and read for 15 minutes until the number stops changing and record the data, both objective and subjective, about the weather.

If anyone wants to know what the weather is like in Yola, I'm going to update this post for the month, then create a new post for a new month:

Day	Time	Temp	Breeze	Dust	Subjective
30-Jan	1:25	91	cool	some blue	slightly warm
31-Jan	12:19	88	none	thin haze	slightly warm
1-Feb					lukewarm
2-Feb	4:14	84	cool	thick haze	cool
3-Feb					cool
4-Feb	1:38	99	warm	no blue	warm/hot and dry
5-Feb	12:15	97	slight warm	some blue	warm
6-Feb	1:43	100	warm	no blue	warm/hot and dry
6-Feb	5:21			thin haze	warm
7-Feb	9:45am			unsafe	cool
8-Feb
9-Feb	3:10	99	warm	some blue	20% humidity
10-Feb	3:50	88	cool	some blue	cool
11-Feb	12:00	96	cool	some blue	warm/hot
12-Feb	12:15	97	none	cloudy blue	warm
12-Feb	5:15	93	none
13-Feb	1:48	102			hot and dry
14-Feb
15-Feb	9:00am	84		cloudy blue	cool
15-Feb	2:00	100	none	cloudy blue	hot
16-Feb	10:45am	97	cool	thick haze	slightly warm

Some explanations below the fold
Dust - We are in the Hamatan stage, which means there is an enormous amount of dust everywhere. The dust cools things off, but also makes one thirsty and inclined to cough. This is a measure of how much dust:

• Clear blue: no clouds or dust in the sky
• Cloud blue: blue sky with clouds
• Some blue: I can see some shades of blue behind the dust
• No blue: The sky is a solid dusty grey, but there is no dust on the horizon.
• Thin haze: The sky is a solid dusty grey and I can see a little dust at ground level not far from me.
• Thick haze: The sky is a solid dusty grey, I can see thick dust at ground level, and I taste dust when I breathe even indoors.
• Unsafe: The haze is so thick, natives are wearing doctors' masks or kerchiefs over their mouths.

Subjective - Some days I will undoubtedly forget to measure the temperature, so if I give a subjective measure of how warm I think it is daily, that will provide insight into a small range of temperatures it might have been.

• Very hot
• Hot
• Warm/hot
• Warm
• Slightly warm
• Lukewarm
• Cool

It has been 16% humidity every day according to my device except one day when it was 20%. It's likely a bit drier than that but it won't go lower than 16%. We'll see. I know it goes higher because it's in the low to mid 30%s in my house.