2016-01-10
Decided to do a little research.
Wanted to look at highs and lows for multiple years.
The only thing I found that I could get easy/free was daily high and low temps from 1960-1978.
Here’s what that data told me:
Lowest Hi Temp: 1.04 on 1977-01-17
Highest Hi Temp: 98.06 on 1966-07-02 & 1966-07-03
Biggest drop in Hi Temp: -44.10 on 1972-03-03
Biggest rise in Hi Temp: 32.04 on 1977-02-22
Lowest Lo Temp: -14.08 on 1977-01-17
Highest Lo Temp: 78.08 on 1962-08-20
Biggest drop in Lo Temp: -34.02 on 1970-02-03
Biggest rise in Lo Temp: 34.02 on 1965-02-06
What I’m planning to do (full reveal, sound the crazy person music!)
I’m going to use the change in temp (up or down) to control the color I used for the high and low bands on the pattern.
I did more data crunching (again, using the daily high/low from 1960-1978).
I looked at the change in high temp and low temp, separately.
Anyways, since I have 10 colors, 5 each for hi and 5 each for lo, I looked at the temperature changes in groups of 20%.
Hi temp changes (plus or minus):
20% of the time, 1° or less
40% of the time, 3° or less
60% of the time, 7° or less
80% of the time, 10° or less
Lo temp changes:
20% of the time, 1° or less
40% of the time, 3° or less
60% of the time, 5° or less
80% of the time, 8° or less
2016-01-03
Decided to use local weather station data via Wunderground: http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dash...
2016-02-29
Measuring after 6 rows = 7”
7/6” per row.
366 days + 12 month = 378 rows = 36.75’
366 days + 52 week + 12 month = 430 rows = 41.8’
2016-02-something
Rebooted the scarf with the thicker yarn.
Decided that rather than using one range of colors for the low temps and one for the high temps, I’d use all the colors. The dark colors (blues, greens) would represent a drop in temperature, and the warm colors would represent a rise in temperature.
Because of this, you’ll see several spots where the same color is used for both the high and low rows. While I had originally wanted there to be contrast between all the highs and lows, I decided that I wanted even more to have the direction of the temperature change to be visible.
2019-01-05
Finished the last crocheting just after midnight!!!!
365 days * 4 ends/day = 1460 ends
12 months * 4 ends/month marker = 48 ends
52 weeks * 2 ends/week marker = 104 ends
Total ends to weave in: 1612 ends!
Every now and then two sections would have the same color and I wouldn’t cut and rejoin the yarn, but that didn’t happen very often and sometimes I cut the yarn before even checking.