MARV GOODNOE: “Concerning the funeral of Staff Sgt. Goodnoe:
wouldn’t it be fantastic if the entire route from funeral home to
the burial were lined with as many people possible, holding
American flags to honor our fallen hero?”
A suggestion from Sonya Davidson of Kane received Tuesday. A
great idea.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. today at the First United
Methodist Church on Chambers Street, Bradford. Committal services
with military honors will be in McKean Memorial Park,
Lafayette.
100 DEGREES: So far, nobody can turn up a date when it got up to
100 degrees in Bradford.
We’ve had a couple people report that Bradford’s record high
temperature was actually 98 degrees in 1986.
Liz Fleming Duggan of Omaha, Neb., writes: “The Weather Channel
website says the highest recorded temperature for Bradford was 98
degrees F in 1986. There was no month or day given.”
We also had a first-person report from a Bradfordian who has
been around more than 97 years. Jim Piscitelli tells us he can’t
recall the mercury hitting the 100-degree mark in all of his
years.
A weather observers notes, however, that the 98-degree mark
recorded on The Weather Channel’s website undoubtedly originated
with the National Weather Service station at the airport.
“Since warm weather temperatures in town are usually five to
seven degrees higher than the airport, it was very likely over 100
that day in the ‘real Bradford.’
“An interesting question: before the opening of the airport in
the early ’50s, where was the ‘official’ temperature in Bradford
taken?”
Our weather chum, who believes Bradford often gets a “bad rap”
as the coldest spot in Pennsylvania, also notes, “I’ll probably be
the only one to tell you (again) that the town of Bradford is not
even one of the cool spots of the Twin Tiers, let alone the state
or country, as people persist on claiming.”
Early Saturday, in fact, Bradford was one of the “hot” spots on
a cool August overnight, he tells us.
The low at Bradford High’s weather station was 54.6. It was 50.5
in Johnsonburg, 51 in Hinsdale, 51.2 in Cuba and 52.6 in
Allegany.
“Of eight other locations I checked, only Salamanca (55.8) and
Wellsville (57.2) were warmer. The airport? The coldest spot at an
even 50 degrees. And that’s how we get our bad rap.”
