Re: Clear Sky Clocks and reality...

From: Randy Muller (rmuller@No-Spam)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 22:30:11 MST

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    Mark Wagner wrote:
    > I know some of the Sacto gang got skunked up at Blue Canyon on a
    > night the CSC said would be good, last moth... has *anyone* had
    > consistantly good success with CSC?

    Yes. It's been my experience that it's been mostly accurate (plus or
    minus an hour or two and plus or minus one transparency notch 90% of the
    time). It has about the same accuracy and far, far more relevant
    information than the NWS forecasts.

    In case anyone hasn't noticed, weather is inherently difficult to
    predict, and I would not use a single spectacular failure to cause me to
    stop using a useful tool.

    I have found the seeing predictions far less accurate -- I think it
    depends a lot more on local topography.



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