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World Weather Planner
Welcome to my World Weather Planner, which shows weather by country by month. Its in excel, and the summary looks like this:
- Diagonal lines represent my upcoming route!
It takes into account:
- rainfall
- rainy days per month
- max temp
- min temp
- humidity
- heat index
Coverage area:
- Asia (partial)
- North America (partial)
- Central / South America (not yet)
- Africa
- SE Asia (partial)
- Australia
Looking for volunteers to help add cities, instructions are in the file.
You can see detailed data for each city on each of the above stats:
I assign a "discomfort level" to each data point, using 20C and no rain as the ideal weather. The further away from this ideal, the more discomfort there is. I assumed this as ideal "moto" weather, if you want to go skiing, this isn't the planner for you.
You can choose your own tolerance to rain, heat or cold, and the summary will adjust automatically. To do this, just change the percentages in the weighting box, as seen below:
Please let me know your comments.
Philip (aka NY-Lon)
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Excellent work and thanks for sharing.
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Its in excel, and the summary looks like this:
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I appreciate your effort, and I think it´s a great idea (personally I´m thinking something like this should be combined with some kind of map of the overland-routes, then it would really become helpful!)
But I also think, that it will still need some adjusting. There are areas, mostly deserts, where extreme summertime heat can become very dangerous. But what is probably more common worldwide in a 12-month period and especially further away from the Equator, are conditions that are cold enough to make most locals completely store their motorcycles away for the winter period (like average daytime temperatures near or below 0 Celsius – check out Irkutsk, for example, it´s in Siberia, and in I´m quite certain that discomfort level there for motorcycling cannot be the same for January and for July!)
So severely cold winters is something, that should be given much more weight on that calculation IMO. (Not that it will be a very important factor, when planning to ride through a warm continent, like Africa).
I don´t know, but maybe it would become more clear, if the different kinds of discomfort (heat, rain, cold) were marked with different colors, or symbols or something...?
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Great work, I did a similar document for planing my trip but this is much better.
I would agree with Pecha72 that cold needs a higher weighting. I have been to Irkutsk in January and I can tell you that it is not as comfy and London in July which both get a 1.
Maybe it should be Rain 40% Heat 30% Cold 30%
Would be great to see North India, Pakistan and Thailand
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Thanks for the feedback, I've uploaded an updated version. My aim has been to keep this flexible and extensible.
Kim - I added in a few regions (India, Pakistan, SE Asia, Australia) and will update the original file. The difficulty was that for some regions the source doesnt give "days of rain", so I extrapolated, from the rainfall.
Still need to add in the Americas and Europe etc.
Pecha72 - Icons might be beyond my Excel abilities 
The raw data is there if you scroll over. So, if you're more concerned with minimum temperatures, just scroll over to the right to see it - like this. Shows just how cold it gets in Siberia and the frozen north.
And, its built so the weightings can be changed. If you want to avoid cold, just push the weighting up, which I did here. You'll see that Mongolia/Russia etc in January is a no go. I am going through Africa in the Northern winter, so am most obsessed with rains.
Thanks
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Excellent work.... must be winter up there 
Nit picking ...
Suggest you open it up to others to enter data for other countries? Say a sample excel file that they can use to enter data on a new worksheet... keep one contributor to one sheet?
One aspect overlooked - humidity. If that is high it is very uncomfortable to ride in. Can be physically dangerous. Don't think that has much effect in most of Europe. But at sometimes of the year it has significance in parts of Africa, Asia, central America... basically around the equator.
Another aspect is acclimatization. Basically you get used to the temperatures/humidity that you live in. Hard to put that in a universal table. But could help make the temperatures less critical.
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Mapping will be nice and can be done ... I've long wanted to do that .. a gif/jpeg that has one month on it - then string the months together for a video.
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Just my personal opinion, and I might be wrong on this one. But for me, winter, snow&ice, as well as hard rains in the rainy season (in the tropics) are the real showstoppers on a motorcycle.
Winter, because it is just too damn cold to enjoy riding, and you'd need very special&expensive gear, plus lots of expertise to do it (relatively) safely. No way to camp either, unless you carry some polar expedition stuff! Tropical rains, because they can affect the roads, especially unpaved ones so much (in the mountain areas also paved roads get landslides, etc.)
Extreme heat and humidity should certainly not be underestimated, but they seldom affect the road network, or your machine's ability to go forward, they can affect you, and be dangerous to you, if you ignore the threat. But for one thing, extreme heat (say 45-55 Celsius) is not in the tropics so much, it's in the dry areas of around 25-40 latitude, and usually only happens in midsummer. Extreme humidity is more of a problem in the tropical regions. So it's not very often, that you have to deal with both extreme heat and humidity (that combination is of course very dangerous, and I don't mean to say each cannot be a danger on its own!)
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This should be a function in Google maps, the ability to tick boxes for ideal condition, border info, places to buy fuel, things to avoid.
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I did some maps a while ago, not nearly as detailed as Google for example, but just to give some rough idea of overland-routes for a beginner. Here´s an example:
MOTO1
Been thinking to add some sort of relief shading to them to show the mountain areas, lowlands etc., and actually found a suitable map base to use for that, but haven´t got that far yet, really out of spare time for the moment!
But in case someone´s interested, I´m willing to let use these freely (to for example add the weather data to locations, you click a location and the data pops up, just an idea) long as it´s "just for fun" so there´s no money involved. I could provide the maps as PSD or JPG, but like I said, I currently don´t have much time to work on them. If I remember correctly theyre 1280px wide each.
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Great that others are also having the same idea!
I recently made also somthing like a climate table, and than combined it with Google maps, Fusion tables, that gives a lot of options!
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Very nice _MT_... (i love maps  )
Have you a link to share?
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link to your climate table
Hi -MT-
Some time ago you posted a pic of your climate table. Is there a link you could share or a document?
Thanks
Jacques
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Great that others are also having the same idea!
I recently made also somthing like a climate table, and than combined it with Google maps, Fusion tables, that gives a lot of options!
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Warin - if only, my excel skills were stretched to the max on this, fairly, simple model....
I'd love to see what a software engineer could do, given a month...
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Great I can look up some of the weather details for where Im going July thank you
Cant do Europe hay ho have to plan to ride elswhere
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http://www.weather-and-climate.com/
Guys,
Check this website, it will give you detailed information about the weather and climate in (almost) all area's of the world.
Cheers,
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Guys,
Check this website, it will give you detailed information about the weather and climate in (almost) all area's of the world.
Cheers,
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Daan,
That is a worthwhile web site. I like the easy to use aspect.
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