What the Batumi boulevard does to a summer cluster

Batumi in July is not a slightly busier version of Batumi in February. The boulevard, the hotels, and the port approaches take a load that the inland ridges never see. A nationwide indicator averages those two facts into a calm colour. A municipal complaint from a waterfront street does not.

When we study the Batumi cluster we treat the tourist weekend as a first-class window, not as a sensitivity case buried in an appendix. Friday evening and Saturday afternoon sit next to a midweek hour so the room can see which sectors are always busy and which sectors only exist as a problem when the city fills. That distinction changes what you fund. A sector add on a ridge will not empty the boulevard. A hop lift behind a waterfront rooftop might.

Hotels also change the radio geometry. A new façade can turn a coverage hero into an overshooter. Drive-tests from two summers ago are still useful if we label them as such; they are harmful if we pretend the waterfront is the same street. Coverage mapping for this cluster always carries a date on the trace. If you only have last May, the pack will say last May.

The briefing in high season is harder to hold because half the operations floor is covering nights. If your freeze is in June, request the study in the winter. A pack delivered the morning of the freeze, written from a default busy hour, is how the boulevard disappears from the argument until August, when it returns as a complaint.