{
 "schema": "nephos.method.v1",
 "slug": "guthrie-hard-at-it-1883",
 "title": "James Guthrie, Hard At It",
 "urls": [
  "/studies/guthrie-hard-at-it-1883"
 ],
 "written": {
  "summary": "Painted at Cockburnspath, on the Berwickshire coast, in 1883; the museum records no month or day.",
  "items": [
   {
    "quote": "The artist holds an umbrella partly to shield himself from the gusty winds of the Scottish seashore, but also to prevent the sunshine from casting a shadow on his canvas.",
    "source": "Glasgow Museums, collection record 3248",
    "url": "https://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record%3Bid%3D572%3Btype%3D101"
   },
   {
    "quote": "The weather, a very important item in the success of meetings, has been, like the season itself, very variable on the Club’s days.",
    "source": "James Hardy of Oldcambus, Cockburnspath, reporting on 1883",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/historyofberwick10berw"
   }
  ]
 },
 "records": [
  {
   "name": "Marchmont register of rain and sunshine, 1883",
   "detail": "Peter Loney’s daily rain and hours of sunshine, 24 km inland at 500 feet, printed in the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club’s History; transcribed by Nephos and checked against the printed monthly totals.",
   "url": "https://archive.org/download/historyofberwick10berw/page/n442.jpg"
  },
  {
   "name": "St Abb’s Head monthly rain",
   "detail": "The same coast, 14 km east, 1862–1943 (Rainfall Rescue).",
   "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ed-hawkins/rainfall-rescue/master/DATA/ST-ABBS-HEAD/ST-ABBS-HEAD.csv"
  }
 ],
 "gaps": [
  "No daily wind record near Cockburnspath has been read; the Met Office Daily Weather Report gives Leith at 8 a.m. but is not keyed.",
  "Guthrie’s arrival month at Cockburnspath is not documented in open sources.",
  "The same Marchmont rain gauge is in the Met Office MIDAS archive, which needs a login; it would check the rain column independently."
 ],
 "tests": [
  {
   "claim": "“the sunshine”, strong enough that the painter shades his canvas.",
   "result": "Marchmont had at least 8 hours of sun with no rain on 20 days from June to September 1883: 8 in June, 4 in July, 6 in August and 2 in September."
  },
  {
   "claim": "“the gusty winds of the Scottish seashore”.",
   "result": "No wind was recorded at Marchmont or on this coast in a daily record that has been read."
  },
  {
   "claim": "“like the season itself, very variable”, Hardy on 1883.",
   "result": "Rain days and dry days changed places 45 times in the 122 days from June to September at Marchmont; July was the 5th wettest of 78 at St Abb’s Head."
  }
 ],
 "finding": "Bright, dry days came at Marchmont, inland, in every month from June to September 1883. That makes the painting’s weather plausible for the season; it does not identify the day.",
 "verdicts": [
  {
   "claim": "“the sunshine”",
   "verdict": "Partially agrees",
   "reason": "Such days recur through the season at a register 24 km inland; the painted day itself is unknown."
  },
  {
   "claim": "“the gusty winds”",
   "verdict": "Unknown",
   "reason": "No daily wind record has been read."
  },
  {
   "claim": "“very variable”",
   "verdict": "Partially agrees",
   "reason": "The register flips between wet and dry every few days; “variable” is Hardy’s judgment."
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Marchmont is inland at 500 feet, 24 km from the shore where the picture was painted.",
  "The June sunshine column sums to 179 hours but the page prints 279; the daily values are kept as printed.",
  "One July rain value is in worn type (0.43 or 0.45 inches); it does not change which days had rain.",
  "A date would narrow the comparison, but sunshine and rain measured inland cannot tell the weather at the easel."
 ]
}