Many people make a temperature blanket over a year, one row each day or a few each week, as the weather happens. Here's how to set up one project and keep using it all year.
Set It Up
- Choose your place, and set Duration to One Year starting January 1 of this year (or whenever you start).
- Press Search. Beside the number of days it says how many are still to come: their weather comes in as they pass.
- Press Project, then Save Project, and give it a name with the pencil.
Fix Your Ranges at the Start
Auto ranges are made from the weather you have so far, and remade as more comes in. In March, your ranges would only cover winter, and change every time you look, so rows you've already made could end up a different color. Set ranges that won't move instead:
- Think of the hottest and coldest days your place usually has in a year. Last year's project is a good guide: try it with last year's dates.
- Press Ranges, then Manual steps…, and choose steps that cover them, like every 5° from 35°.
- Press Save.
Ranges you set yourself never change on their own. Choosing ranges.
Each Time You Sit Down
- Open your project from My Library, or press Project, then Open…
- The main button says Add 3 New Days (with however many are waiting). Press it to add them. If a day you saved has different weather now, you're asked first, and the days you've already made stay as they were saved unless you update them.
- Find today's rows in the Table (press Today, and turn on Show Colors for each day's color; press a color for its yarn), or touch them in the preview.
Signed in, your project is on every device: plan on the computer, and check today's color on your phone.
Stay a Few Days Behind
Weather services can take up to a week to finish the newest days, so yesterday's numbers might still change. If you can, work about 6 days behind. Your saved days stay as they are unless you choose otherwise, but keep a record of what you've made too: download the PDF each month or so. Printing and keeping your place.
If Something Goes Wrong
Yesterday isn't there yet
The weather source may not have it yet. Try again later in the day, or tomorrow.
A day I've already made changed color
Saved days don't change by themselves, so check whether the ranges moved (use Manual steps, above). If you used Check for Updates and chose a day's new values, that day changed on purpose: its old values aren't kept. A blanket doesn't need to match to the decimal. When the weather changes.
Weather sources update recent days
The newest days are early data. Once they've settled, the planner says so and offers Check for Updates, which shows any day that's different now and keeps your saved values unless you choose the new ones. Saved weather.
I edited a day, and now Search is gone
Edited weather is kept as yours, so it isn't looked up again, and the button says Reload Weather Data instead, which replaces your edits. For a project still in progress, it's best not to edit the weather until the year is done.
More Detail
- Location & Dates: Choosing places and dates, and what to do when one is not found.
- Gauges & Ranges: Gauges, their ranges, and every option in the Ranges menu, explained.
- My Library & Account: Saving, opening and syncing projects and palettes, the Trash, Preferences and your account.