WEATHER and BOWLING!!! [Archive]

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MICHAEL

01-26-2014, 03:27 PM

Don't know about most of you, but I find I do my best scores, in the spring/summer. I know that sounds weird, me being Iceman, but after looking over my best series/games.

Reason I ask, and this thread has been brought up before, today,,, its almost 60 degrees here in Kansas City! When we get done bowing tonight it will be headed for 5 degrees!! CRAZY....

Does the weather effect your bowling? Have you bowled a higher average on a summer league, vs a winter league?

zdawg

01-26-2014, 04:53 PM

I live in San Diego and this is my first league, so no I guess weather is not an issue since the temp stays the same pretty much year round (which is why I moved here in the first place)

bowl1820

01-26-2014, 05:08 PM

See:
The Weather’s Changing…Are Your Lane Conditions?
http://www.kegel.net/V3/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=72

Weather, Topography, and Ball Motion
http://www.kegel.net/wpa/ted04

Lane Conditions and Cold Snaps
http://www.kegel.net/wpa/lane-conditions-and-cold-snaps

The Weather’s Changing…Are Your Lane Conditions?
http://www.kegel.net/wpa/ted02

10 Things That Everyone Should Know About Lane Conditioners
http://www.kegel.net/wpa/cc01

The main affect the weather has is on the oil and it's viscosity. The cooler the lane surface is when oiled, the more the oil has a chance to bond onto the lane properly. When oil is applied to a cooler lane surface, the oil is kept from migrating, due to the disruption of heat. An oil pattern applied to the cooler lane surface will be truer to the intended lane pattern characteristics..

A lot of house's change the pattern lengths trying to compensate for it.

From Kegel:

. Temperature
Effects on Lane Conditioner - I can't say enough of how important temperature is to lane conditioners. Many people have their theories about how lane conditions change when the weather changes so we decided to get some hard facts.

In early 1997, we conducted several tests to see how much conditioners changed when the temperature was raised or lowered. What we found was eye-opening. The viscosity of some conditioners changed 2 cps (centipoises) for every 1ºF of temperature change. That means if you start with a 20cps (viscosity) conditioner and the temperature drops from 80 ºF to 70ºF, the viscosity of that conditioner would be 40cps. This is not true for all lane conditioners. Some only change 1cp for every 2º F of temperature change. That is only 25% the change as some of the others, BUT regardless of how much they change it's important to know that all of them do.

Temperature affects the molecules of lane conditioners by causing them to slow down when cold or speed up when hot. Think of water turning to ice and water boiling.
Temperature will affect the viscosity, which in turn also changes the flow rate through wicks.
When the viscosity of the conditioner is changed the ball reaction will also be different as a result.
The capillaries in most wicks will shrink up when it gets colder restricting flow

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tr33frog

01-26-2014, 05:44 PM

In KC we get a lot of weather issues on the lanes, especially with the humidity. Heck you will even notice it throughout the house with the end lanes being some of the harder to shoot in the house because they are closer to the outdoors.

RobLV1

01-26-2014, 08:02 PM

The weather definitely affects the lanes. In some cases it's the temperature, especially where it's very cold outside and the area behind the pin decks is not heated. In other cases it's the humidity. In Las Vegas, during our "Monsoon Season" in July in August when the humidity goes way up, we often see very wet/dry conditions resulting most probably from the moisture in the air settling on the oil that results in more skid until the ball reaches the dry where it just flat out turns left. Another issue with the weather, wherever you're living (except maybe San Diego LOL), is the number of bowlers who leave their bowling balls in the trunks of their cars. Cold balls hook more than after the balls warm up. Balls left in the trunk in Las Vegas during the summer are either bled of built up oil, or else they crack in half: good luck and take your chances!

YODA

01-26-2014, 10:30 PM

Maybe it is just me, but I bowl better during the colder months then I do in the summer. Unsure why though...but it was nice to read Bowl1820s post above about all that stuff :)

MICHAEL

01-27-2014, 10:21 AM

I was mainly talking about the physical body of the bowler..... LOL,,,, I just seem to be stiffer in winter, then in the spring and summer..... I have a lot of war injuries from working in the cold as an Iron Worker putting up towers, buildings, bridges... I JUST SEEM to bowl with more comfort in the summer, spring, wearing my shorts! I do have nice legs,,, why cover them up!! (:)

Mudpuppy

01-27-2014, 02:22 PM

I bowl better in the winter

dpatrickv

01-27-2014, 02:36 PM

I typically bowl better in the winter.

I also seem to bowl more in the winter...so that probably explains it.

classygranny

01-28-2014, 08:19 PM

Winter? what's that? Guess I bowl better in the Spring/Summer....LOL

Great articles...thanks Bowl!

MICHAEL

01-28-2014, 08:45 PM

Winter? what's that? Guess I bowl better in the Spring/Summer....LOL

Great articles...thanks Bowl!

Rub it in classygranny!!! RUB IT IN!!! Its dropping down to 12 degrees here tonight.... Nothing like AZ!!!
When my wife retires from the railroad in 3 1/2 years, we just might become Snow Birds! We have a Nice 35 foot 5th wheel!
I could see leaving Kansas city every year after Christmas, and taking our bowling balls with us!!

Pauley

01-28-2014, 09:01 PM

I haven't been bowling long enough to know, but one thing I do know is I HATE THE COLD!!!! No offense Iceman :-)
I moved to Atlanta from VA and seeing that there is snow on the ground outside my window as we speak I should've moved my butt another 400 miles further south.

mc_runner

01-29-2014, 01:26 PM

I'm the opposite, I bowl way better in the summer, close to 15 pins difference in average in the same house. I always figured it was oil bleeding out of the ball more in the summer, I had no idea about the oil bonding that Rob mentioned.

classygranny

01-29-2014, 02:54 PM

Rub it in classygranny!!! RUB IT IN!!! Its dropping down to 12 degrees here tonight.... Nothing like AZ!!!
When my wife retires from the railroad in 3 1/2 years, we just might become Snow Birds! We have a Nice 35 foot 5th wheel!
I could see leaving Kansas city every year after Christmas, and taking our bowling balls with us!!

I really wasn't RUBBING IT IN...ok, maybe a little, I was just answering a question. A bit chilly this am when I drove to work it was only 46 degrees. Hopefully, Friday is warm as I think I'm going to stop and check out some of the golf tournament on my way home from bowling - I need a play-day.

Oil bonding...another thing to make my head spin a bit. More reading!!! Yeah! I love bowling in the summer, but I have to make sure I have my portable fan, as some of our bowling alleys get stifling hot and then I can't let go of the ball or I drop it because I have to use a really big IT. Been working on my release more in the last 6 months, so maybe this summer will be different. We can always hope.

MICHAEL

02-26-2014, 08:53 AM

I really wasn't RUBBING IT IN...ok, maybe a little, I was just answering a question. A bit chilly this am when I drove to work it was only 46 degrees. Hopefully, Friday is warm as I think I'm going to stop and check out some of the golf tournament on my way home from bowling - I need a play-day.

Oil bonding...another thing to make my head spin a bit. More reading!!! Yeah! I love bowling in the summer, but I have to make sure I have my portable fan, as some of our bowling alleys get stifling hot and then I can't let go of the ball or I drop it because I have to use a really big IT. Been working on my release more in the last 6 months, so maybe this summer will be different. We can always hope.

I guess AZ, would be a great place for me to stay in the winter, when my wife retires in 3 years! We have a 35 foot 5th wheel, and might just come on down to your neck of the woods and camp out in front of your house! Could I run a line to you place for electricity, and water?? I could use your street sewer for my gray and black water. Just a thought. Thoughts of Christmas Vacation come to mind,,,, ( love that fricken movie)!!!

Bowling in the winter there would be pretty Cool...... Iceman..

tccstudent

02-26-2014, 11:02 AM

I guess AZ, would be a great place for me to stay in the winter,
Bowling in the winter there would be pretty Cool...... Iceman..

Don't do it you would melt just like frosty did.

MICHAEL

02-27-2014, 04:22 PM

Don't do it you would melt just like frosty did.

I am at the current time looking into DNA changes that would allow Iceman to become Human again! I am told that it can be done, but once I have the new DNA, added it will change my Super Hero body to that of a normal human being.

That being said, by then it just might be time to go back to being just me,,,, Michael

tccstudent

02-27-2014, 05:25 PM

I am at the current time looking into DNA changes that would allow Iceman to become Human again! I am told that it can be done, but once I have the new DNA, added it will change my Super Hero body to that of a normal human being.

That being said, by then it just might be time to go back to being just me,,,, Michael

That kinda sounds like the plot to the new wolverine movie

martinezsam2495

02-28-2014, 02:42 AM

Honestly, I've never thought about weather being a factor. haha
But now that I think about it, I bowl pretty swell during Spring and Fall.

MICHAEL

02-28-2014, 12:26 PM

That kinda sounds like the plot to the new wolverine movie

wolf,,, (as I call him), wolverine is a good friend of mine.....

classygranny

02-28-2014, 06:18 PM

MICHAEL

02-28-2014, 06:29 PM

Speaking of weather and bowling....we have gone 70 days without rain, and it is suppose to rain tonight and/or tomorrow - so today is cloudy, overcast and quite humid for us. The approaches this morning were so sticky, yucky it was hard to slide (even with a #10 sole). And the feeling of your thumb being so clammy it wouldn't come out clean was so foreign, and then the transition being different than usual, I felt like I hadn't bowled in over a year...so out of normal comfort zone. So, YES, I do believe weather affects bowling!

aaaaaaaa,,,, Classygranny,,, the rest of us that don't live in AZ, feel your pain!! LOL.... Just toughen up, it will all pass!! We are looking at another snow storm here!!! Humidity,,,, bad,,,,, FRICKEN SNOW storms,,, REAL BAD!!

I might be Iceman, but like I have said before, I LOVE ICE,,, just don't care much for SNOW, or even SNOWMEN, and most of the time SNOWBALLS!! :)