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Old 04-28-2009, 06:28 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NachtRitter View Post
Just curious: Why would you not use the plugin to import the weather data automatically from your weather station of choice? That seems like it'd be the easiest approach, rather than getting the CSV data yourself and then importing?
The idea was to be able use data from more than one station
(closest to station A at start of trip, closest to station B after X miles, closest to station C after Y miles ...)

In any case, for me - out here in the boonies - this is all mostly theoretic. There are places on my route where the nearest station is probably 70 miles away. The closest station lies ~21 miles west of the southwest corner of my 150 mile nightly loop. The only other nearby weather station lies ~23 miles northwest of the northwest corner of the same loop. There are nights when neither comes anywhere close to matching conditions on the route. eg. 10-15 mph winds (gusts to 20) at one station; 0-5 mph winds at the other station; and conditions on the route are anything from 0-5 mph winds at one location to 30-35 mph winds (gusts to 45) at another location.
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