Another quick iPhone snapshot of the temperature blanket project for June - with yardstick for scale.
This maybe the last month I can get the whole thing in one shot - without a stepladder anyway. :)
The black darned lines are temp markers for the end of each month. I haven't added the line for June yet, but the top single row of peach was the 30th.
June was a few days of peach and then it jumped over Signal Red straight to Scarlet, which is the highest colour on my chart (daily average above 20°C). It’s been rather nice.
Interestingly, for the warmer temperatures, our local temperature measurements are running ~1.5° hotter than the VisualCrossing average temps that I used to gauge how much of each colour I would probably need. We suspect this is because the gap between the two houses where the sensor lives is retaining heat longer, pushing the average up.
It does feel a bit like I should have moved everything ‘up a colour slot’. Something to bear in mind if I do this again next year.
This is so cool! How wide is it? And what temperature intervals are you working with? This is the kind of thing I think I’d love to try although I expect I’d give up after a few weeks…
@northy it’s about 1.5m wide. I was aiming for double blanket size and I think it will be in the ballpark.
I’m working to 2° increments between 0° & 20°, with a colour each for anything outside it.
I posted the chart waaaay back at the start - though I decided to change the dark blue. https://365project.org/humphreyhippo/2023/2023-01-05
@humphreyhippo thx! And I see you are working w averages…. Which answers another q I was going to ask about the “above 20” all being one colour…. I was thinking you were tracking highest temp and that would mean ur summers would be colder than I would have thought….
@northy The original plan was to do highest temp, but that needed either wider intervals or a lot more colours for around here (as I expect it would for you!). It also meant the other half could get involved building a temp tracker for the house. Kinda nice that it became a joint project.
Someone on Reddit is doing one in little granny squares where the centre is the lowest temp & the outer border is the highest temp. Looks very cool but seems a bit more involved. Maybe next year. ;)
July 6th, 2023
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I’m working to 2° increments between 0° & 20°, with a colour each for anything outside it.
I posted the chart waaaay back at the start - though I decided to change the dark blue. https://365project.org/humphreyhippo/2023/2023-01-05
Someone on Reddit is doing one in little granny squares where the centre is the lowest temp & the outer border is the highest temp. Looks very cool but seems a bit more involved. Maybe next year. ;)