clunk07 wrote:Hey guys,
Just a quick revelation that I had today, that may/may not be conclusive.
Most people south of the NSW border - Vic and Tas - seem to be the people having issues with longer lengths of foam...
Do you think this could have something to do with the arctic winds/gravitational pull from the South Pole or similar?
Your theory may have some weight there.
Speaking about Melbourne, our winds are mostly westerly due to our latitude, and northerly during these colder months, as the warmer inland air moves into the colder regions (plenty of cold air above the ocean surface down south).
Now, there's a good chance that I'm not going to do anything much during the morning, so that means that messing around with the guns will occur some time closer to noon and after.
By this time, the suns' going to be north-ish and moving to the west.
If I'm going to do my firing tests, I'm not going to face the glare of the sun either.
That's means I'm more likely to shoot towards the east and south, with a high probability of a tailwind (wind coming from somewhere in the west and north).
Whether headwinds and tailwind do anything with the range, I do not know.
Can someone experiment on this?
We didn't have much of a summer this year, so I'm not sure if anyone can verify the projectiles' behaviour on a warm and hot day.
I don't think is a good idea to extrapolate statistical data from observations up north for distances travelled in warmer ambient temperatures, as the geographical difference may introduce more uncontrollable variables.
Examples:
- Wind direction and vertical drafts
- Humidity
- Gravity (we're closer to the centre of the earth than you guys closer to the equator)
- Atmospheric pressure
Perhaps, our sample size is too small to determine if something strange is going on.
Heck, we apparently have rain belts across the suburbs in this city, where one area may be totally pissing and other places dry; due to the plains, hills and bays nearby certain areas.