tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271879804911490046.post5987619888821199629..comments2023-08-09T23:53:26.561-05:00Comments on Three Things Very Dull Indeed: Was last winter unusually cold?Mr. Riggenbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11794236758126578018noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271879804911490046.post-31853752748031166852010-04-25T07:02:59.027-05:002010-04-25T07:02:59.027-05:00Well.... the other thing you might want to take in...Well.... the other thing you might want to take into consideration is the dew point, because that can have a very large impact upon how cold/warm the weather 'feels'. And, if I remember correctly, 2009 was a very wet year, which may have contributed to how that year felt colder on average.Emil Bandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11311347482998393702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271879804911490046.post-23864505818559104792010-04-24T23:19:17.177-05:002010-04-24T23:19:17.177-05:00Tara -- was it that obvious?
Kathryn -- I am prou...Tara -- was it that obvious?<br /><br />Kathryn -- I am proud of you! This project started when I offered to try to find a correlation between daily temperatures and how often my friend's heater runs in his garage. I spent quite a few lunch hours at work gathering historical temperature data and putting the graphs together. I wouldn't call it relaxing as much as satisfying to be able to understand something better after analyzing the data.<br /><br />Emil -- I don't have all the data yet with which to draw a conclusion, but it may be interesting to see what the cumulative deviation from the means is for the calendar year 2009 since that one "seemed" colder than average.Mr. Riggenbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794236758126578018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271879804911490046.post-54196012749860917362010-04-23T12:30:14.304-05:002010-04-23T12:30:14.304-05:00OK, now I get it! Thanks!
Using the deviation fro...OK, now I get it! Thanks!<br /><br />Using the deviation from HDD instead of a raw deviation from average temperatures seems to have a more direct practical application anyway, due to how it ties directly into how you need to heat your house etc. <br /><br />Global warming occurring in Peoria? :-) Or maybe Climate Change would be a better name for it? (what a thought... the weather/temp. actually changes!!! ;-)Emil Bandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11311347482998393702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271879804911490046.post-47020196912463725682010-04-23T12:10:13.311-05:002010-04-23T12:10:13.311-05:00I took your advice and stopped reading before I hi...I took your advice and stopped reading before I hit graph #1. I am not going to leave any negative, "I'm bored" comments (be proud of me). I would like to inquire, however... where do you find the time to do all this extensive research??? It seems to me that in your spare time you would want to do something relaxing. Then again, maybe I just answered my own question and you somehow find this relaxing?Kathryn Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05596587421146745254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271879804911490046.post-61997263001822617152010-04-23T10:51:30.294-05:002010-04-23T10:51:30.294-05:00Let me guess..... the second paragraph was written...Let me guess..... the second paragraph was written to my sister. :-)Tara Janellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08659341666877102284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271879804911490046.post-649374707453874812010-04-23T08:30:07.040-05:002010-04-23T08:30:07.040-05:00Thanks for the compliment Diane, but since you don...Thanks for the compliment Diane, but since you don't see my errors every day I won't burst your bubble...<br /><br />Emil -- first, the chart was started in August since we started recording consecutive HDD at the end of that month last year. So, in my opinion, the heating season began with those "cold" days.<br /><br />Second, the charts really do reflect deviations from mean temperatures but only to the extent that a HDD was recorded for that day. In other words, if the actual mean temperature was colder than the average mean, but the actual was 65 or above, it was ignored on the second chart since it didn't affect heating requirements.<br /><br />I have also tracked the deviation from mean that you refer to, and over the past year (all seasons included) our cumulative difference from the mean is about 208 degrees above average. That total turned positive on about March 30.Mr. Riggenbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794236758126578018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271879804911490046.post-91204784196616465232010-04-23T07:49:28.495-05:002010-04-23T07:49:28.495-05:00Ok... so I am confused... (but not, I believe anyw...Ok... so I am confused... (but not, I believe anyway, because I don't understand your graphs etc.... but, maybe I'm wrong, and I really, really don't understand the graphs :-)<br /><br />I did enjoy reading about HDD and the mean/average temps etc, and the graphs as well! But I don't understand two things:<br /><br />First, why it was started in August instead of the beginning of winter?<br /><br />Second, why it is you used HDD instead of the historical mean temperature for Peoria, and then compared your data to that? Especially if the purpose of the study was to find out whether or not the weather was 'unusually' cold. (and I presume unusually is referring to historically unusual, but correct me if I'm wrong) <br /><br />Or perhaps there was going to be another post comparing the historical data to the present data? <br /><br />Really enjoyed the post though!Emil Bandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11311347482998393702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271879804911490046.post-77134493331967591852010-04-23T06:10:58.726-05:002010-04-23T06:10:58.726-05:00If I wasn't already in awe of your awesome sma...If I wasn't already in awe of your awesome smartness, I would be now... cuz you are. Awesomely smart, I mean. yeah.<br /><br />:-)Diane Shifferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449110271720365988noreply@blogger.com