Guide contents
Reading the answer
The Why? detail
What's holding a score back, in words, and how to read the detail inside the answer.
Tap Why? under the dial to see what's behind the score. The detail opens inside the answer, and Hide the detail closes it. It stays open on every screen until you close the app, and starts closed the next time.
Holding it back
Holding it back lists what's pulling the score down, each said as what's wrong ("Windier than you like") with the day's value beside it. The one costing the score most comes first. That isn't always the one furthest off: some factors matter more to a day than others.
- Usually the list is the costliest factor, then anything else that's well off today.
- On an Excellent day, it's just the costliest one.
- On the very best days, nothing is listed.
The dot beside each is red when that factor is bad today, and amber when it's more of a knock.
Otherwise fine
Everything else goes on one line under Otherwise fine, a few words each: the temperature, new snow, wind, rain and so on. None of it is costing the score much. When nothing is holding the day back, the line is headed Nothing holding it back.
Snowpack and deep new snow
These two hold the whole score down, so when either is doing that, a banner leads the detail:
- Snowpack: bare: the score is 0 whatever the weather. Below it is just The weather, for what it's worth.
- Snowpack: thin: the score is held down, but not to 0.
- Deep new snow: skate and classic only, after a big snowfall.
See Snowpack and deep new snow.
Surface, for classic and skate
The detail ends with Surface (not scored), a word for what the weather is likely doing to the snow surface. It isn't part of the score yet. See The Surface row.
The words in the list
| What it says | The factor |
|---|---|
| Colder than you like, Warmer than you like | Temperature, against your ideal |
| Not much new snow, More new snow than you like | New snow since yesterday, against the amount you want, or will put up with |
| Little snow in 3 days | Snowfall over three days: a stand-in for how fresh the surface is |
| Crust from a thaw, Slush | Freeze–thaw, with the low and high over three days |
| Windier than you like | Wind, against your limit |
| Rain, Rain in the last 3 days, Rain that refroze | Rain, today or over three days |
| Snow falling on the track, More snow falling than you like, Not much snow falling | Snow falling during the day, in millimetres of water, against your setting |
| Flat light | Cloud cover |
Temperature, wind and cloud are daytime averages, over the same hours as the hour strip, 7 AM to 6 PM.
With VoiceOver, each item in the list is read as one, and so is the line under it.
While the detail is open, Not right? sits at the foot of the answer. If the list doesn't fit the day, tap it and choose "The reasons don’t fit". See Not right?.
This guide describes Snowpace 1.0.0.