Reno-Lake Tahoe AMS Student Chapter
Fantasy Weather League
The 2007-08 Fantasy Weather League season has completed. The winner was J.D. McAlpine who received $40 worth of merchandise from Sky-Fire Productions. Second place went to Phillip Marzette who received a set of three NWA cloud charts. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated.
Final Standings
Team McAlpine 3989 Team Marzette 3041 Team King 2522 Team Joyce 1618 Team Paredes 1362
Team Rosters
1. Team Joyce
1. Tampa, FL
2. Anchorage, AK
3. New York, NY
4. Honolulu, HI
5. Seattle, WA2. Team King
1. Portland, OR
2. Milwaukee, WI
3. Flagstaff, AZ
4. Juneau, AK
5. Charleston, SC3. Team Marzette
1. Buffalo, NY
2. Lake Charles, LA
3. Tucson, AZ
4. Cheyenne, WY
5. Jackson, KY4. Team Paredes
1. Missoula, MT
2. Sterling, VA
3. Phoenix, AZ
4. Denver, CO
5. Boise, ID5. Team McAlpine
1. Des Moines, IA
2. Burlington, VT
3. Grand Rapids, MI
4. El Paso, TX
5. Grand Forks, NDThe Fantasy Weather League is an activity organized by the Reno-Lake Tahoe AMS Student Chapter. Teams draft five weather observing stations drawn from a pool of National Weather Service Forecast Offices. The draft order is determined by an inital random draw and alternating order for odd and even rounds (e.g. the team which selects first in the first round will select last in the second round and first in the third, etc.). Verification is performed with the preliminary climate data provided by each local forecast office and storm reports provided by the website of the Storm Prediction Center.
The scoring system is given below. In general, one and ten point scores can be accumulated each time a given event occurs, while 25 and 100 point scores are bonuses which can only be collected once per station per category. Scores are cumulative, so events exceeding higher thresholds will also score all of the points for the lower ones. Streaks must be separable to be counted twice. All values are given in English units. The scoring period begins at midnight, 1 December 2007 and end at midnight, 1 May 2008 (to allow for award presentation at the May chapter meeting).
Temperature Maximum > 80 1 Minimum < 0 1 Maximum > 90 10 Minimum < -15 10 Maximum > 100 100 Minimum < -30 100 15 days maximum > 80 10 15 days minimum < 0 10 30 days maximum > 80 100 30 days maximum < 0 100 Precipitation > 0.25 inches 1 > 1 inch 10 > 3 inches (storm total) 100 15 days w/o precip 10 30 days w/o precip 100 Snowfall > 1 inch 1 > 6 inches (storm total) 10 > 18 inches (storm total) 100 white Christmas 25 Wind daily average > 15 mph 10 daily average > 25 mph 100 maximum gust > 50 mph 10 maximum gust > 75 mph 100 Weather dense fog 1 ice pellets 10 hail 10 freezing rain 10 dust/sandstorm 10 blowing snow 10 Severe Weather nonfatal tornado in CWA each report - 1 > 2-inch hail in CWA each report - 1 nonfatal tornado < 25 miles 100 > 2-inch hail < 25 miles 100
Any questions regarding the current rules or suggestions regarding future rules should be directed to the commissioner.