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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 70628" data-attributes="member: 381">Zagyg's beard, that was insane.I spent a couple of hours on that last night, and threw in the towel. May go back to it sometime, though-I did do a couple of clever things that were worth saving.For the record, I didn't get to weather per se. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> I do now have a spreadsheet that calculates, (based on date, latitude, and elevation) the sunrise/sunset times, phases of the moons, and high and low temperatures per the system in the Glossography. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> The true challenge was the rules for heat waves & cold snaps; the spreadsheet successfully obeys all of the rules for extending a record high (etc.) over a random number of days. (Really. That was an incredible pain ...) It looks reasonable on balance, although the random rolling does sometimes do some weird things. I saw a cold snap followed by a heat wave in the ~Blackmoor latitudes one Coldeven that had 0 degree highs one week followed by 80+ degree highs seven days later. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Don't forget to pack your parka and your swimming suit ...Oh, and one more thing: I seem to recall seeing a thread on this board once upon a time challenging the phasing for Luna and Celene in some Greyhawk supplement or other. My spreadsheet conclusively establishes that the dates Gygax recorded in the 1983 supplement are exactly correct for a 28-day Luna cycle and a 91-day Celene cycle. So there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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