A quick review of the little blurb that appears on the right hand side of the the blog page ("What's the Point?") reminded me of what I was trying to do and how I may have lost my way a bit. Short updates with pictures not long winded over explanatory essays! So let's try it again....
Lots to cover but this post will cover something you'll get to use. I saw another superintendent post something on Twitter with some local weather information for his area and I asked where he was getting his data. He directed me to a on-line source that sells weather stations for the backyard, meteorological weather mega-geeks. So way back at the start of summer I bought a weather station but it took until August and help from KGC's I.T. guy, Bruce I., to get it working. Go to Kimberley Golf Club Weather Station to see data from the weather station. At the top is current weather and if you scroll down there is graphs and tables which give historical data for our weather station but, FYI, information is only available starting on August 16, 2015.
I know Kimberley is not that big but by looking at the info from the station before you come down you will get a feel for what the weather at the club is like. Who cares? Well in the very near future frost delays will be an issue again so instead of trying to get through to the golf shop in the morning to see if there is frost you will be able to look at the temperature a make an educated guess. This time of year anything below -2 degrees will probably mean a delay. Another FYI, the stations present location skews temps about 3 degrees warmer than it really is so if you see a temp of +1 it is more likely -2 ish. I will still attempt to inform players of delays via my Twitter feed as well. Twitter, another thing I have trouble keeping up with......
