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Originally Posted by LouGerig_IronHorse
Month by month average temperature is just the average of high/low for the month, correct?
Precipitation data - Wikipedia does provide how many "precipitation days" a given city has on average per month (I think averaged out over a 30-year span of time, which is what the National Weather Service uses for "normal" or "average" for a given date. But this doesn't appear to line up with what is input into the game.
How are the numbers derived that the game shows? How are we arriving for a given location that the percentage chance of precipitation for, say, New York, is - March = 3 .. April = 4 -- May = 3 - June = 3 - ... and so on? What data is being used to derive this and how is it calculated? Even on the Jaffe Ballpark Creator - those numbers are plugs into the ballpark creator - so I'm at a loss as to how those specific percentages are derived.
Wikipedia shows number of rainy days for (I think June?) as something like 10.2. So in a 30-day month, that's roughly a 33% chance that the month will see a rainy day. How are we then getting a plug number of 3 for a month? Are we taking that number then dividing by 24? (hours in a day) ... what's the math involved to get this number?
This part isn't intuitive - and there's absolutely nothing in the online manual that details this.
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I use the average of the average high and low for the month, yes.
I'll be honest with you, I thought that the precipitation numbers were average inches if precip per month on Jaffe's, and didn't think it was precip days until I saw the in-game editor myself. What does Wikipedia say is the average amount of rainfall for NYC in June? Is it 3 inches, or round up to that amount? Does it line up for the other months?
You're right, some guidance on the precip numbers would be helpful...