Auto season load accuracy (question answered please disregard post)

[sho69607]

What source does terramax use for season selection. It is showing "deep winter" in Seattle right now and its currently 45F. Should I just leave the setting on autumn instead to prevent this?

Edited December 2, 2018 by sho69607

[sundog]

It's based on the month and your latitude. As it's December and Seattle is pretty far North, its best guess is "winter" since we don't model micro-climate effects, such as how Seattle's temperatures are moderated by the Pacific Ocean. We don't have any data available on actual snowfall to work with.

So the short answer is - yes, just set it to autumn if that's the conditions you want to see. We don't claim that automatic mode is a faithful rendition of what's actually on the ground right now in real life, it's just a best guess based on the latitude and time of year.