Freezing Saddles scoreboard software updates

[hozn]

It’s ok; I have been otherwise too busy too.

@dkel, the weather is done late at night / early am. Hopefully things look right in the world tomorrow.

[dkel]

@hozn 108573 wrote:

@dkel, the weather is done late at night / early am. Hopefully things look right in the world tomorrow.

Looking at the forecast, I don’t think things will look great tomorrow. (But I know that’s not what you were referring to! Thanks for the info.)

[dkel]

I told my younger son at bedtime tonight that he might not always love practicing the piano, but persevering would help him get better at playing and it also builds character. He says to me (I’m totally not making this up), “is there a Freezing Saddles leaderboard for most character?”

[hozn]

Hmmm … If we could quantify that, we could totally make one!

[Steve O]

@jrenaut 108564 wrote:

While you’re at it, disqualify people who did their rides in Canada so I can have the Coldest Ride. I mean, Canada’s not even a real place, is it?

Well, what kind of a place is “kalamazoo?” Sounds like an imaginary place in a children’s story to me.

Biddle-lee-boo
Fiddle-dee-dee
Kalamazoo
Sit on my knee
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.
.
.

[jrenaut]

Kalamazoo is the magical place where Bell’s Beer was born.

[Geoff]

@Steve O 108595 wrote:

Well, what kind of a place is “kalamazoo?” Sounds like an imaginary place in a children’s story to me.

Given that I am not taking part in Freezing Saddles, perhaps I lack standing to post in this thread; but as a native Michigander I feel compelled to issue a stern “Harumpff.”

[jrenaut]

One never lacks standing to issue a stern “Harumpff” when appropriate.

[jwetzel]

Booo.
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[eminva]

Can someone remind me where the temperatures used on the scoreboard draw from? I noticed it logged 8.10 degrees F for my ride that began in Vienna, VA on Friday, February 20 at 7:49 a.m. I took an Instagram photo of the thermostat at home, which didn’t sync with the ride, and it was 1 degree F. I can see a variation of two or three degrees, but seven degrees? And I think all who rode that morning would agree it was no balmy eight degrees in central Fairfax county.

I notice it is the same for some others out that morning, although many notched temperatures well below that. Is there any reason why?

Liz

[hozn]

wunderground.com

If you find a discrepancy in their data vs ours, let me know.

Here is the specific observation that was being used for the start (07:49) of your ride in “Vienna, VA” (the location of your ride, according to Strava — we take shortcuts and use the city when possible due to limitations in wunderground api usage allowances):

{
“conds”: “Clear”,
“date”: {
“hour”: “07”,
“mday”: “20”,
“min”: “52”,
“mon”: “02”,
“pretty”: “7:52 AM EST on February 20, 2015”,
“tzname”: “America/New_York”,
“year”: “2015”
},
“dewpti”: “-11.9”,
“dewptm”: “-24.4”,
“fog”: “0”,
“hail”: “0”,
“heatindexi”: “-9999”,
“heatindexm”: “-9999”,
“hum”: “40”,
“icon”: “clear”,
“metar”: “METAR KDCA 201252Z 31008KT 10SM CLR M13/M24 A3042 RMK AO2 SLP302 T11331244”,
“precipi”: “-9999.00”,
“precipm”: “-9999.00”,
“pressurei”: “30.43”,
“pressurem”: “1030.2”,
“rain”: “0”,
“snow”: “0”,
“tempi”: “8.1”,
“tempm”: “-13.3”,
“thunder”: “0”,
“tornado”: “0”,
//

(“tempi” is the temperature [in imperial units, aka Fahrenheit])

[eminva]

Thank you — I guess there are anolomolies here and there, but overall, the results are within reason.

Also, I think the interface is remarkable and I certainly have enjoyed watching the progress in miles below freezing, rides before/after sunset, etc. over the course of the competition. Kudos and thanks.

Liz

[eminva]

I just looked at Wunderground and for Vienna, apparently they don’t have any local weather stations so they use data from National Airport. Ha!

Liz

[consularrider]

@eminva 109334 wrote:

I just looked at Wunderground and for Vienna, apparently they don’t have any local weather stations so they use data from National Airport. Ha!

Liz

The Wundermap shows several weather stations in the Vienna area. Check out station KVAVIENN15 in Vienna Woods. With this, I don’t know why if would default to National Airport. It looks like most of us have a coldest ride from last Friday morning (2/20) with several at the 6.08°F mark from multiple locations. I know that my closest weather stations (Westover KVAARLIN28) was reading about 2°F that morning.

[eminva]

@consularrider 109338 wrote:

The Wundermap shows several weather stations in the Vienna area. Check out station KVAVIENN15 in Vienna Woods. With this, I don’t know why if would default to National Airport. It looks like most of us have a coldest ride from last Friday morning (2/20) with several at the 6.08°F mark from multiple locations. I know that my closest weather stations (Westover KVAARLIN28) was reading about 2°F that morning.

Yep, KVAVIENNA15 is about five blocks from my house, and appears to be reporting 2.8 degrees F for 7:49 a.m. last Friday.

But when you search under “Vienna, VA” in Wunderground — which is what Hozn says the application does — it defaults to KDCA.

Liz

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