I don't believe that your (valid) argument about distribution of temperature fields does more than throw a couple of shovelfuls of earth into the conceptual hole. (gfdl.noaa.gov)
Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Scripps Research President Richard A. Lerner, the Palm Beach County Commissioners, and Marshall Criser, head of the state's Scripps Florida Funding Corporation, gathered at the former orange grove known as Mecca Farms, now part of the Palm Beach County Research Village, at noon on Friday, September 23 to turn over the first shovelful of soil. (scripps.edu)
Most scholars believe that Peter's threefold profession of his love for Jesus parallels his threefold denial, that Jesus is giving Peter the chance to fill the hole he has dug for himself with three huge shovelfuls of love. (religion-online.org)