Alaska towns

[sdw1000]

So for a state that's has absolutely NO MLB or professional baseball to speak of, why does Alaska have so many towns in the weather list? lol
Maybe because each location is so far away and completely different weather? I just found it amusing..
Oh..there are 2 summer league teams there. I stand corrected.

[Cod]

I assume the data is being pulled from an open source database like (NOAA, etc.) and that's the list of cities/states included. I doubt much development time was spent getting the historical weather data beyond setting an interface to access the data from a third party.

EDIT: Doing a quick search, I found an example data set: https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-cfs/

[WestCoastGuy]

Ah, maybe that's why there is no weather data for Brooklyn. (The Dodgers pre-1958 have inaccurate weather at home games for those OOTP players who don't realize and/or don't fix it in their games, so perhaps "Brooklyn" is not offered by this third party).

[Cod]

Originally Posted by WestCoastGuy

Ah, maybe that's why there is no weather data for Brooklyn. (The Dodgers pre-1958 have inaccurate weather at home games for those OOTP players who don't realize and/or don't fix it in their games, so perhaps "Brooklyn" is not offered by this third party).

Although a borough can be a city, the boroughs of New York City and Montreal are not. So in the sense of data sets, Brooklyn would not be given specific "city" data. It would fall under the NYC data set and if that weather is inaccurate, I'm not sure what to tell you.

NOAA confirms my suspicions. If you put Brooklyn into weather.gov and select "Brooklyn, NY, USA (Kings County)", the data shown is for the NYC station (https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...5&lon=-73.9904).

[WestCoastGuy]

Originally Posted by Cod

Although a borough can be a city, the boroughs of New York City and Montreal are not. So in the sense of data sets, Brooklyn would not be given specific "city" data. It would fall under the NYC data set and if that weather is inaccurate, I'm not sure what to tell you.

However, the Bronx and Queens are in OOTP's weather file (obviously, the two boroughs that currently host MLB teams). And their listed climates in OOTP's weather file are slightly different from each other and from "New York, New York." Meanwhile, since Brooklyn is not in OOTP's weather file, Ebbets Field (and other Dodgers home parks) are climatically placed in Madrid, Spain, the last city in the weather file.

[Ty Cobb]

An overhaul of the weather data would be a truly great addition. Here in Northern Michigan, the climate varies so wildly from one side of the state to the other it's amazing.

My small burg in the center of the Northland is USDA hardiness Zone 4—lowest temps of -30 and a rotten 88 day growing season. Not even 100 miles away at my cabin in Benzonia, it's Zone 6b—low temps of -5 to 0 and a 133 day growing season. It's also far rainier at the Michigan coastlines because of the Great Lakes. I'm certain there are other states with similar issues.