you will also be today is the Highlight of the Zurich Six-alarm call: the burning of the Böögg. The 3,40 Meter watt-man is perched on 10 meters high wooden piles, and contains a mass of fireworks. The sooner his head explodes, the faster the summer starts, and, accordingly, longer and Sunny it is – says the people’s mouth. But how good is this weather forecast really is?
We have not looked at the data since the year 1952 and it was found that A good weatherman, the Böögg. The time until Explosion is random, you can tell from the Irregularity of the event in the studied period occurred. And also the views of individual years, not speaking for the Böögg.
by 2015, about he was burned almost 21 minutes which is significantly longer than the average of all years (15 minutes and 50 seconds). Nevertheless, the heat of the summer, broke numerous records with 54 days of over 25 degrees. In 2016, the Böögg exploded after 43 minutes, and 34 seconds – as late as never. Here, too, a warm summer followed.
conversely, the image in 1956, still holds the record for the fastest-exploded Böögg presented itself. Already after 4 minutes it was so far (in some years, the time has not been measured only down to the Minute), but the hoped-for effect: The following summer, was held to a measly 26 days, and was one of the most inhospitable in the measurement period.
Comparing the average temperatures of the months June, no link is to August, in the city of Zurich and the burning time of the Böögg.
graphic: sip, data: Github/Philshem
it showed a study by Meteo Switzerland. The national weather service of Switzerland, came to the conclusion: “As expected, no statistically significant correlation between the burning time of the Böögg and the average summer temperature and, respectively, the number of summer and heat days.” The burning time depends rather from the structure of the pyre, the moisture content of the wood used and the amount of the accelerant, wrote Meteo Switzerland.
hope, therefore, that it remains today in Zurich dry. The burning of the Böögg will start at 18.00. And the traditional oracles should explode because of the wet conditions late, we don’t have to make us, as is also not necessarily Worried about the summer.
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Created: 08.04.2019, 11:46 PM