Is anyone noticing that the daily temperature weather highs being reported are not the truth?

No, it is the truth it is off. It used to match the local banks and now it doesn't. We joke we have to go look at the bank to see the truth. The bank runs like your own thermometer. This week they report one low and it is 15-20 degrees off. They said we'd get to 8 degrees today yet the banks and one not lying internet place gives it as -17.

Direct sun, no wind -vs- shade & strong wind can vary temps by 10-15 degrees. Winds vary drastically based on geographic structures. It might very well be true that your temp is 15 degrees lower than 'average.' I doubt there is any nefarious doings tho.

I watch the forecast regularly.

I've noticed the 5 day forecast prediction is always much warmer than what actually happens. And as those days become nearer they drop the forecasted temp down closer to reality.

Right, that's it...for the last 4 weeks I have been wondering the same thing, but here in Australia.

I live on the south east coast of queensland and we started autumn in mid January, the trees have nearly finished dropping their leaves and we are supposedly still in summer.

WTF is going on..tv weather seems to be reporting all is normal and there is mostly talk of high temps further south, but a friend of mine who lives further down south reckons they must only be reporting road temps or something because she is not experiencing the temps they are saying on the telly.

Very strange

Alabama here. The "official" temps were off by 10 degrees for the last two weeks, when it was very cold. (single digits)
When the temps were back to a normal range, the accuracy came right back in line.

Same here in Omaha, Nebraska! It is always way colder than they are reporting. I suggest everyone get one of those inside/outside thermometers and we actually start listing the temps around the country for ourselves and posting them. What say you?

Right, that's it...for the last 4 weeks I have been wondering the same thing, but here in Australia.

I live on the south east coast of queensland and we started autumn in mid January, the trees have nearly finished dropping their leaves and we are supposedly still in summer.

WTF is going on..tv weather seems to be reporting all is normal and there is mostly talk of high temps further south, but a friend of mine who lives further down south reckons they must only be reporting road temps or something because she is not experiencing the temps they are saying on the telly.

Very strange

from what I've seen, it's not the current reported temps that are off, it's the forecast temps....off by 5-10 degrees lately.

Before I relate what I have noticed, I will gladly admit first off that I might be wrong, BUT . . .

I live in the Denver area, and like a lot of the U.S., it has been below significantly below freezing for the past week here. (This morning at about 6 a.m., it was -10 degrees!) I have a temperature gadget on my computer, and I have "monitor" the temp fairly frequently. Anyway, for the past six days or so, I have NEVER seen it go above 10 degrees Fahrenheit, yet according to the Accuweather almanac for my zip code, the average high for the past six days has been about 25 degrees! (Accuweather's shown low's are significantly higher than what I have observed, too.)

Now, if it was "off" by less than 5 degrees, I would think that it just a matter of the temps being taken in different areas in the zip code area (meaning that, yes, I could understand differences in readings in gauges a couple of miles apart), but this is a significant difference. Does anyone else suspect that they are being lied to as far as how cold it has actually been in their areas?

I recall them reporting Denver to be about -18 or so around 7PM last night.

Where are your sensors?
Where are their sensors?
How were they calibrated?
I've seen a shaded dip in the landscape vary 20°F.

Wind has absolutely no effect on the temperature reading. None, zero, nada.

Temperature is always recorded in the shade. Period. This so there is not argument about shade, sun etc.