What's today's temperature?

[joham]

Please can we say "What's today's temperature?"

 

[Rover_KE]

You can, but it's so vague as to be meaningless.

Do you mean the temperature inside or outside/in what country/at what time of day?

 

[joham]

You can, but it's so vague as to be meaningless.

Do you mean the temperature inside or outside/in what country/at what time of day?

Thank you so much, Rover. I read the dialogue "A: What's the temperature? B: It's between 8 and 4 degrees Centigrade. " from a textbook and would like to know if we can also say "What's the temperature of today?" "What's today's temperature?", which means the temperature outside the whole of today.

 

[Rover_KE]

The outside temperature is never the same throughout the whole day.

 

[5jj]

Depending on the context, I would take the questions "What's the temperature of today?" and "What's today's temperature?" to refer to the temperature inside the room the speaker is in or outside the house, both at the time of speaking. Note that 'of' in the first question is incorrect.

 

[SoothingDave]

I would take it to be asking about the day's high temperature, absent other context. (And tonight's would refer to the overnight low.)