Thoughts on "golfing index" on local paper's weather page

Dinsdale
Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:23:17 +0000
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I live in the Chicago area and golf at least twice a week. We get a paper delivered - the Chicago Tribune. On its weather page, it prints daily golfing and fishing indexes, purportedly describing how good or bad the weather is for those activities throughout the day.

Today is a high of 82, low of 58, sunny and warm, with wind 6-12 MPH. Whether you golf or not, I’d suggest that is pretty good weather for just about any outside activities - other than maybe running a marathon or something. The Trib lists it as solid 6 (out of 10) all day long. Oh - it drops to a 5 at 8 pm, likely reflecting that the sun sets at 6:30!

I actually sent them an email asking politely what criteria they consider, but received no response. I wondered what your thoughts were as to why the paper would exert any effort to publish something that is so nonsensical.

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