UHA was up in July! Mind you, Chicago has been mostly cool and wet– though of course, cool and wet for June. It’s warm today! And I’m finally announcing the winners for June.
Anyway, Roy’s official temperature was +0.298 C, which is up quite a bit relative to June.
Win place and show went to RichardLH, TimTheToolMan andTamara who split the contents of the pot! Good going!
| Rank | Name | Prediction (C) | Bet | Won | |
| Gross | Net | ||||
| — | Observed | +0.298 (C) | |||
| 1 | RichardLH | 0.3 | 5 | 82.55 | 77.55 |
| 2 | TimTheToolMan | 0.32 | 5 | 66.04 | 61.04 |
| 3 | Tamara | 0.222 | 5 | 11.66 | 6.66 |
| 4 | Ray | 0.22 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 5 | denny | 0.218 | 3 | 0 | -3 |
| 6 | AMac | 0.188 | 3 | 0 | -3 |
| 7 | Skeptikal | 0.183 | 4 | 0 | -4 |
| 8 | JCH | 0.18 | 4 | 0 | -4 |
| 9 | DaveE. | 0.18 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 10 | jackmosevich | 0.15 | 3 | 0 | -3 |
| 11 | EdForbes | 0.14 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 12 | Eddieo | 0.131 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 13 | Freezedried | 0.13 | 4 | 0 | -4 |
| 14 | AnthonyV | 0.12 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 15 | MDR | 0.113 | 3 | 0 | -3 |
| 16 | BobW | 0.112 | 3 | 0 | -3 |
| 17 | YFNWG | 0.111 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 18 | Owen | 0.11 | 4 | 0 | -4 |
| 19 | angech | 0.1 | 2 | 0 | -2 |
| 20 | Perfekt | 0.099 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 21 | RiHo08 | 0.099 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 22 | RobertLeyland | 0.091 | 4 | 0 | -4 |
| 23 | RobertInAz | 0.09 | 2 | 0 | -2 |
| 24 | BobKoss | 0.088 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 25 | pdm | 0.065 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 26 | LesdartboardJohnson | 0.055 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 27 | Anteros | 0.049 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 28 | Dunna | 0.048 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 29 | MpG | 0.03 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 30 | SteveT | 0.03 | 4.25 | 0 | -4.25 |
| 31 | DocMartyn | 0.01 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 32 | DenisC | 0.01 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 33 | Genghis | -0.001 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 34 | Lance | -0.007 | 4 | 0 | -4 |
| 35 | Pieter | -0.014 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
| 36 | diogenes | -0.02 | 2 | 0 | -2 |
| 37 | KreKristiansen | -0.07 | 4 | 0 | -4 |
| 38 | tombolger | -48 | 2 | 0 | -2 |
The net winnings for each member of the ensemble will be added to their accounts.
Drat, I missed the quatloos by 0.002c!
I must go to 3 decimal places next month.
It’s good to have you back on line Lucia, I hope you are all well again.
Yeah…. I think I made the mistake of following a bad recipe on the web. Really… after I made it, I thought “what was i thinking”?
Explanation: I went on a sourdough kick. Which is fine. But you let sourdough age. Which is fine. Then…. reading recipes, I saw one where they told you to mix batter and let it sit. Even that would be fine but I stupidly didn’t think: “Oh… not this one. It says to mix in milk and eggs and let them sit?!!!” Talk about being dumb… but the next day. Oh. Ugggg!!! Talk about malaise…. (I’m fine. But I really didn’t feel well. I threw the food out. )
And really, this was totally stoooopid. I KNOW you should let milk or eggs sit. Well… unless your making yogurt but for that you scald the milk as a first step. So…how dumb could I be. (Very. Evidently.)
Since then, I have made sourdough pancakes (yumm…) But in that case: Don’t add the milk or eggs until later!!!
Gistemp is up too, b ut still no month in the 70s.
How far ahead, does February count?
This stuff has to be vague but I don’t trust it anyway. Only agrees because the data hit mean. More a matter of waiting for a year or so.
Spot of fun.
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/short-term-forecasting-uah-lower-troposphere/
Flour and water are the only things you should ever add to the starter. Everything else goes in after proofing and taking back a supply for the future. Out of curiosity, did you make your own starter or buy a dried culture?
I really miss Parisian San Francisco sourdough bread. The sole remaining commercial sourdough bread baker in SF, Boudin, just isn’t as good. However, I have found a recipe that comes close using a mature culture. It really does get better with age. However, the recipe takes about five days from start to finish because there are multiple builds.
Did you account for the switch to V5.6?
From Dr. Roy’s site:
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We added two satellites to the processing, Metop-A starting in 2007 and NOAA-19 starting in 2009. The resulting anomalies, which we will call Version 5.6, differ by as much as 0.04 deg. C from v5.5.
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Oh well, another ‘lucky arrow’ for next month based on those winnings then. 🙂
Now I suppose I need to give it away to live up to my name’s sake.
SO everyones is determined that it was just pure luck.
Maybe it was, maybe it wan’t, but….want to see the ‘simple digital cheat sheet’ for a side bet?
Sorry to be a pest, but will July betting be opening soon?
Yep! Today
DeWitt Payne
Sorry! Almost missed that. I made the starter following the recipe in “The Joy of Cooking” which advises mixing ordinary yeast, flour and water stirring and then stirring from time to time. I’ve used some for basic white-flour sourdough bread, some for flapjacks some for the “cornbread of death” and have been refeeding. The flapjacks, and white-flour sourdough were good. The “cornbread of death”… tasted good….
I haven’t tried any commercial starters rumored to have special local flavors though I may eventually.
Did you buy Parisian starter? I’ve seen stuff on line but I would want to learn whether it’s really worth the extra $$ to buy the fancy stuff. (One guy hawks various different types– Klondyke, Pyramids of Giza and so on. I figure I should first just get a hang of keeping this going and see if I like it before spending $8 plus shipping on starter that I might discover isn’t worth the extra expense.)