You should not need to do this unless your new home is at a significantly different altitude. (mechanics.stackexchange.com)
McNoldy said the conditions are ripe because we're precisely in the middle of hurricane season and there's little wind shear, a condition in which layers of air at different altitudes move at different speeds and which tends to break up hurricanes. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Well, not necessarily a «wrong» scale factor — the satellites (at least MSU - based) measure something different from surface temperature — they measure emissions from throughout the atmosphere, and use various techniques to figure out the contributions from different altitudes. (tamino.wordpress.com)