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...