Talk:Susanville, California

Susanville POI

Documentary

Don't know if anyone cares, but High Desert is a high security facility. I changed it to say this. Here's a source link:[1]

A PBS documentary on Susanville will be airing on July 24, 2007. It will be titled "Prisontown, USA." Here is a link: [2]

I'm not really sure it deserves to be mentioned in the first paragraph, it was a pretty narrow/ one-sided view of my fair hometown. ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.27.226.146 (talk) 01:15, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Notables/Non-notables

Master-T seems to have added himself to the page. I'm removing him, unless we want to begin listing all people who have ever lived in Susanville in this section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.104.108.10 (talk • contribs) 09:57, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Rainfall

The following sentences regarding precipitation statistics are certainly wrong:

The most rainfall in one month was 2.30 inches (58 mm) in March 1907. The most rainfall in 24 hours was 5.04 inches (128 mm) on January 31, 1897.

Clearly, even if the rainfall started falling on January 31, 1897 and finished on February 1, 1897, at least 2.5 inches of rain fell in one of the two months in 1897, eclipsing the 2.30 inches cited for March 1907. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.31.219.19 (talk) 15:33, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

I agree with your comment, good catch on the numbers. The only problem is, I can't seem to find those statistics in a reliable source for either of those huge rainfalls, so I have added tags that read "citation needed", perhaps some other more experienced editor can take a whack at it and find the real numbers. The weatherboxes and such are limited in that the source usually only uses the last 3/4ths of the 20th Century for data; and older reporters may have been most enthusiastic with their rainfall and temperature readings before standardized measuring equipment was available. I'll keep looking, thanks for the shout. I also fixed one of the temperatures in the chart which was a typo. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:08, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Weather table

Greetings all. Recently a newer editor caught a numerical error on this page and at first (mea culpa) I reverted their edit because I misread their intent. The next day when I realized I was wrong, I apologized on their talk page and said, that I agreed with them and was sorry I had reverted the edit. After that the user fixed the other problems but those edits have been reverted by another editor. To resolve I looked at other Wiki pages and decided to look at the Template:Weather Box which is the source of the code which runs these boxes.

As shown on the template page, there are High record temperatures and Low record temperatures and in the column on the far right which says "Year" those values are to be the highest or lowest temperatures on record. In the example the highest temperature is given as 35 in July and 35 appears in the Year box. Likewise with the lowest record temperature. -24 in January and year also shows -24.

However, the other two rows, the Average values, are to be the average of the average values as shown on Template:Weather Box. In that example the highest average is 23 also in July but the average for the year is 17.5.

I am going to make these edits to Susanville page tonight and reference "see the talk page for explanation." I hope this solves the problem and congrats to the newer editor's sharp eyes for seeing it. Ellin Beltz (talk) 05:05, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Your original revert was correct because the first editor only changed half of the numbers, leading readers to believe the average high is about 64F and the average low is 20F. I said that in the edit summary, but he just repeated the edit leaving it half-done again. I dont think there's any firm standard as to what, if anything, should be in the fields for the yearly high and low, but as long as theyre either both averages (which is what it is now) or both extremes I think we can agree. —Soap— 15:48, 29 October 2013 (UTC)