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Ski Sundown (night): Friday, 1/12/2007

bvibert

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BTW - you need to add a wet bulb temp to your graph. Can you overlay it with the actual temp graph? Finally, the scale at the bottom is confusing. I know the x axis is a function of time, but what do the labels mean?

I was just thinking of adding the wet-bulb to the data. There's a pretty long calculation I need to type in to get it. I don't think I can overlay plots. I'm using some javascript functions that I found for free on the internet to draw the graphs. There isn't to much customization you can do with them that I can see without digging into their scripts and hacking stuff up. I know the scale is confusing, I should have clarified. The labels need to be small due to the way the script works. So I stripped out the minutes from the time stamp to populate the labels. When you see a 00 thats the start of a new hour, say 10 am. The next label should be a 10 or so, that would make it 10:10 am. Next a 20 for 10:20 am and so on. As noted the graph starts at 01/09/2007 15:01:36, which is when I started collecting data. You'll see the first few readings were pretty close together (01, 02, 03, 03) since I manually ran the script a few times. It also notes the end time stamp at the top so you can count back-wards from the end to figured out where in the chart you are.
 

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BTW - you need to add a wet bulb temp to your graph. Can you overlay it with the actual temp graph? Finally, the scale at the bottom is confusing. I know the x axis is a function of time, but what do the labels mean?

OK I added the wet-bulb data, including for the data previously collected. I put that data as the top graph...
 

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OK I added the wet-bulb data, including for the data previously collected. I put that data as the top graph...

Cool! So I see that the WB Temp is still hanging under 26 degrees so in theory they can be making snow right now despite the air temp being 32 degrees, correct?

Now you just have to link to this in your sig so we can keep track of all your geeky little projects! :beer:
 

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BALLS!

Reopening on Fri., Jan. 12 at 9am.

:(
 

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Cool! So I see that the WB Temp is still hanging under 26 degrees so in theory they can be making snow right now despite the air temp being 32 degrees, correct?

Now you just have to link to this in your sig so we can keep track of all your geeky little projects! :beer:

That's what I was wondering. Their website seems to indicate that the guns won't start up again until tonight though...

My geeky little project is now in my sig... ;)

BALLS!

Reopening on Fri., Jan. 12 at 9am.

:(

Crap! :( :cry:

Friday night might be a possibility for me...
 

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Ugh. Friday night is a possibility. I just need to get final approval from the wife.
 

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All that wonderful snow making and then the chance of NCP on Friday. Whatever, I'm down no matter what!

That's the spirit. Me too. That's what Gore-tex is for...
 

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Why would that guy post a stash on the internet????

Oooh, Oooh! Tabboo, isn't it? And I perpetuated it?! :blink: Come on, Beano - this is CT we're talking about. If that line is ever skiable, most serious OB folks won't be bee-lining to Sundown to hit that. More than likely they will set their sites elsewhere...
 

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Oooh, Oooh! Tabboo, isn't it? And I perpetuated it?! :blink: Come on, Beano - this is CT we're talking about. If that line is ever skiable, most serious OB folks won't be bee-lining to Sundown to hit that. More than likely they will set their sites elsewhere...

Oh I don't really care...it's not like I cut the trail myself of anything. I just was wondering about his thinking process, tis all. Now you must show me this stash, Greg. ;)
 

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Oh I don't really care...it's not like I cut the trail myself of anything. I just was wondering about his thinking process, tis all. Now you must show me this stash, Greg. ;)

I'm not sure I totally buy into the notion that posting a stash online significantly increases skier traffic on it on any given day. But I'm not an OB guy so I don't have much of a right to say anything.

So, Beano - Friday night? ;) ;)

Sorry guys, I'm out. My wife has to work Friday night...

Is that the same one that stole your SugarCard? ;)
 

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What time do you guys meet...7ish?

My goal is to be on skis before 7 pm. We normally either meet at 7 or 7:30, but it's easy enough to just bump into each other...
 
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