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When the middle row is open for growing things

Each month read on its 15th · 2026
Something growing here, through the year. The middle row cannot be read for growing things in any month yet. 0 months open, 0 shut, 12 unanswered.JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec0months open
  • Works
  • Tight
  • No
  • Unanswered

Rings run from 6 am at the centre to 8 pm at the edge.

The middle row cannot be read for growing things in any month yet.

  • All year: cannot be answered, because usable light has not been recorded here.
The same year as a table
MonthOpenUsable hoursWhat decides it
January——Usable light closes it
February——Usable light closes it
March——Usable light closes it
April——Usable light closes it
May——Usable light closes it
June——Usable light closes it
July——Usable light closes it
August——Usable light closes it
September——Usable light closes it
October——Usable light closes it
November——Usable light closes it
December——Usable light closes it
The shed7.2 ftThe middle rowN16 ft
BuildingNot yoursCanopyShadow nowCan see inProposed

Reading at

2:31 AM·September
September 15 · The middle row
The same day as a table
The same day hour by hour, in text.
HourSunVerdictConfidenceSun position
12:00 AMdark——
3:00 AMdark——
6:00 AMdark——
7:00 AMin sun——3° up, bearing 89°
8:00 AMin sun——12° up, bearing 101°
9:00 AMin sun——21° up, bearing 113°
10:00 AMin sun——29° up, bearing 127°
11:00 AMin sun——36° up, bearing 143°
12:00 PMin sun——40° up, bearing 162°
1:00 PMin sun——41° up, bearing 181°
2:00 PMin sun——40° up, bearing 201°
3:00 PMin sun——35° up, bearing 219°
4:00 PMin sun——28° up, bearing 235°
5:00 PMin sun——20° up, bearing 248°
6:00 PMin sun——11° up, bearing 261°
7:00 PMin sun——2° up, bearing 273°
9:00 PMdark——

Not full sun or shade. How much usable light actually arrives across a day, and whether the spot ever dries.

Something growing here

The middle row does not work for growing things on a day like this, and how long it stays wet is why.

  • How long it stays wet is14h over— 24h against at most 10h

    Roots and foliage sitting wet kill more plants than the wrong hardiness zone does.

Confidence medium (60%). Enough to point in a direction, not enough to buy against.

What this answer was built from
  • Use
    Something growing here
  • Place
    The middle row
  • Weather
    Temperate maritime, mild, grey, damp (scenario shape) (from a published source)
  • Method
    A whole day in September, traced against the scene rather than read at one hour
    • Try a changeMake a document

    How well this place is described

    Quick
    1. Quick
    2. Mapped
    3. Annotated
    4. Measured

    The sun can be placed. Angles, sunrise and sunset, and the shape of the day are right, and everything that depends on what stands in the way is a guess.

    It cannot tell you when your patio is in shade, because nothing has been drawn that could cast any.

    To reach Mapped

    • The things in the way: 1 object drawn. The house counts, and so does the neighbour's.

    What that buys: Real shade. The difference between being told the sun is up at five and being told your table is in shadow from four.

    Everything that was checked
    • Quick A place on the earth: London (demonstration), with a time zone, which is what makes an hour an hour.
    • Quick Somewhere to read: 1 spot marked. A reading is a height at a place, and moving it moves the answer.
    • Mapped The things in the way: 1 object drawn. The house counts, and so does the neighbour's.
    • Mapped What is underfoot: 1 of 1 readings sit on a mapped surface.
    • Mapped Where the property ends: Drawn, so the product can tell you when the cheapest fix stands on someone else's land.
    • Annotated Photographs of the actual place: None annotated. A photograph is how a drawn height gets checked against a real one.
    • Annotated Photographs that know where they were taken from: No photograph has a position and a bearing, so what is marked on them cannot become a measurement.
    • Annotated Who can see in: Nobody marked. Privacy is a question about who sees in from where, and the product will not invent one.
    • Measured Heights off a tape: All 1 objects are marked as measured.
    • Measured Something checked against the day: Nothing has been checked against a real afternoon. The model is unopposed, which is not the same as being right.

    What to measure next

    Ranked by how far the answer moves, not by a checklist
    1. 1Who can actually see inSit in the chair

      Sit where you actually sit and look around. Mark the one window or path you can see a person from. Until one exists, privacy is a question we are not answering rather than one that is fine.

      This is not a refinement. Nothing can answer this question until somebody marks it.

      Mark it on the plan

      Currently assuming: nobody is overlooking this. Tested across one confirmed observer changes the whole privacy answer.

    2. 2What you are looking atSit in the chair

      Mark the direction of the view worth keeping. Without it, every screening recommendation is optimising against nothing.

      This is not a refinement. Nothing can answer this question until somebody marks it.

      Mark it on the plan

      Currently assuming: no view is being protected. Tested across one corridor changes what screening is worth doing.

    What the place is doing at 2:31am in September

    Temperate maritime, mild, grey, damp (scenario shape).

    What it feels like

    cool

    48.5°F

    Felt temperature · 13 on the reporting scale

    It feels about 4 degrees cooler than the air, near 49°F.

    What is doing it

    • Air movement

      −0.6°
    How this was worked out
  • Air
    52.8°F from Temperate maritime, mild, grey, damp (scenario shape), scenario (from a published source)
  • Radiant
    43.8°F mean radiant temperature
  • Method
    Six-directional radiation integration, then ASHRAE operative temperature (from a published source)

    • Direct sun

    after dark

    0 W/m²

    Beam reaching this point · 0 on the reporting scale

    The sun is down.

    How this was worked out
  • Sun
    below the horizon
  • Traced
    0% of the beam reaches this point

    • Glare

    none

    0

    out of 100

    Nothing bright is in the line of sight at this hour.

    How this was worked out
  • Facing
    180deg (assumed, not measured)
  • Assumed
    Which way the seat faces has not been set, so glare is estimated from the open direction. (assumed, not measured)

    • Privacy exposure

    Unanswered

    No observer has been placed yet. Privacy is a question about who can see in from where, and until one is marked there is nothing to answer.

    Wind

    still

    0.4 mph

    Wind at the seat · 2 on the reporting scale

    The shed is taking about 56% of the wind off this spot.

    What is doing it

    • The shed

      −0.5 mph
    How this was worked out
  • Reference
    7.4 mph at 10 m from Temperate maritime, mild, grey, damp (scenario shape), scenario (from a published source)
  • At seat height
    0.9 mph before shelter
  • Shelter
    56% removed by what stands upwind

    • View

    Unanswered

    No view worth keeping has been marked, so there is nothing to weigh a screen against yet.

    Surface heat

    comfortable

    52.8°F

    Surface temperature · 0 on the reporting scale

    The surface is running about 53°F.

    How this was worked out
  • Surface
    The plot
  • Method
    Absorbed shortwave against air temperature, flattened by air movement (from a published source)

    • Wetness

    dries-fast

    1 x

    Drying time against the open · 23 on the reporting scale

    Still air here; moving air does a surprising amount of the drying.

    How this was worked out
  • Drying rate
    0.000 in/hour here
  • Method
    Penman combination equation on the radiation and air actually reaching this spot (from a published source)

    • Light after dark

    Unanswered

    No exterior or window light has been placed yet, so what changes after dark is unanswered.

    Ask something else about this place

    Who can see me?

    The sightline, the smallest screen that closes it, and what it costs you in view.

    What grows here?

    Usable light across a day, not the label on the tag.

    I already own this. Where should it go?

    The same reasoning backwards: every spot you have marked, ranked for one plant.

    What survives here?

    What this exposure does to the things you leave out.

    Dinner outside tonight?

    The forecast, read against this specific seat.

    What changes through the year?

    The same layout in May, August and October.

    What changes after dark?

    Light, glare and who can see in once the sun has gone.

    Everything on the plan, in text
    ThingReadingNote
    The shed7.2 ft100 per cent solid.