rain issue

Gursimran Bharaj
12 years 209 days ago

hey guys i qualified 10 min to deadline. it was raining since yesterday. now after the qualifying was locked, it suddendly changed to cloudy...now what is going on?

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Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
12 years 209 days ago

Weather.

All of our weather data is real-time and streamed live from weather stations located at each circuit. The forecasts are only as trustworthy as the weatherman on TV, so you have to use your own instinct sometimes on whether to follow it or not.

Just as in real life, sometimes it will go against you. As we often see in F1, teams get it wrong with real weather. When this happens, it's usually an opportunity for smaller teams to punch above their weight and score unexpected points.

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Gursimran Bharaj
12 years 209 days ago

it was rainy whole 24 hours and i waited till the last min..and puff it is cloudy all of a sudden when everything is locked :(

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Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
12 years 209 days ago

It can happen. But the home page now contains a more detailed forecast which might come in handy in future. If you click the day of your race it breaks it down in to day/night weather patterns and how much rainfall is expected and when.

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Gursimran Bharaj
12 years 209 days ago

still shows rain in the home page. but when i click save setup..there the weather is cloudy. it was rainy half hour agao. so why the difference between these two?

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David Brady
12 years 209 days ago

"Gursimran

still shows rain in the home page. but when i click save setup..there the weather is cloudy. it was rainy half hour agao. so why the difference between these two?

The homepage is the forecast for the whole day. where as in setup it is the currenty weather. If you click on Monday[or any other day shown] a popup will open containing detailed weather forecasts for both the day and night]

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Gursimran Bharaj
12 years 209 days ago

yeah it just immediately changed to cloudy. it was rainy since yesterday. i have seen other also complain about this. developers say that it will not be there in q1 patch. but now they tell it is normal !

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Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
12 years 209 days ago

We did switch to a more stable weather API and limit available conditions so that it is easier to understand and more reliable in general.

We did not say that we would control the climate of planet earth after Q1 and prevent inconvenient weather patterns. :P

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Jake Goodhall
12 years 209 days ago

I still think this post is an example of people from stable climatic regions not understanding what the rest of us have to put up with and how the weather can change when you least want it to :)

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David Brady
12 years 209 days ago

"Jake

I still think this post is an example of people from stable climatic regions not understanding what the rest of us have to put up with and how the weather can change when you least want it to :)

Last week or so.... 3 Days in a row we had the hottest day in 30+ years, then it snowed lol, change in temperature of over 20celcius over the weekend

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9182395/Six-inches-of-snow-blankets-Scotland-as-bad-weather-moves-south.html

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Roeland W
12 years 209 days ago

"Jake

I still think this post is an example of people from stable climatic regions not understanding what the rest of us have to put up with and how the weather can change when you least want it to :)

The rest of us? So where are you from?

And please, don't say Brittain. You guys have the most stable weather in the world. It's always shitty weather :p .

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Jake Goodhall
12 years 209 days ago

@Roeland - yep Britain has the most unpredictable weather on the planet.

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