RE: Skunk scale

From: Tom von Alten (tva@pobox.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 17:23:06 PST 

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From: Tom von Alten <tva@pobox.com-DeleteThis>
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Subject: RE: Skunk scale
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 17:23:06 -0800
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> Class 1: Plan on getting a session in, but the wind dies, so you don't
> make the drive to the site.

Class 0 (or perhaps Class Q):
Wind's up, go to load car and find nail in back tire, and tire flat.
On Sunday. Spend the middle of the afternoon taking it off, finding
a garage that's open and waiting for it to get fixed.

Get on the road late, but possible, get to Coyote to find it's "off the
water at 5:30 and we don't sell season passes at the gate." :-(

I don't know how many of you have seen this, but if you haven't, you
should check it out. A one-image description of the wind in the area, at
  http://sfports.wr.usgs.gov/wind/
using the couple dozen observation points, and some clever software to
fill int he grid. There's some need 24-hour and streakline animation,
too, but the static gif works for me to check the conditions with one
page.

It's the sort of thing I was hoping to do for my local reservoir near
Boise, but never had enough data (or access to server automation) to get
done.
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Tom von Alten http://pobox.com/~tva/windsurfing/
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