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Seeing a 3D stacking over the years (maybe a moving average) would be interesting, to see how much things have warmed since I was a kid.
Overall, that's a neat page!
I like the way that this site lets you compare "pleasantness" of climates, e.g. humidity + temperature etc year round. This makes me wonder, where in the world has the objectively "best" climate? Comfortable or warm all year round, not too humid, not too windy, lots of sun.
I'm gonna advocate Tenerife (my island) since it would be amazing to have more HNers around :) https://weatherspark.com/y/147639/Average-Weather-at-Tenerif... Doesn't seem to get much better according to weatherspark :)
https://weatherspark.com/y/145050/Average-Weather-at-Hilo-In...
Cool project! Would be interesting to see a metric on "average temperature change since 1960" to see which places have been hit hardest by climate change Saying the planet has increased in temperature by 1.5 degree doesn't mean much - but if a city has increased in temperature by 5 degrees, I think that makes it feel much more "real"
People keep giving the temperature anomaly, as if there was something fundamental about the baseline temperature. This is kind of nuts, from a simple layman perspective. Tell me what the temperature was before and tell me the temperature after.
I also wonder if the US would have taken action by now if the numbers had been presented in Fahrenheit. Living in the US, I'm totally fine with Celsius... for science. I'm not okay with it for evaluating comfort. I have no idea how a Celsius temperature feels. My lizard brain knows Fahrenheit. 1.5 degree increase doesn't really sound bad. 2.7 does.
These climate blankets would be crazy useful for climate change. Show the complete decimation of comfortable temperatures (mainly in the tropics), and the point will be much better taken.
From the point of view of someone living in northern North America, this is quite warmth-biased, with * temperatures below "very cold" being called "freezing" (huh? mere freezing is not considered terribly cold in much of North America, where "very cold" would likely restricted for T * "comfortable" extending into times of year when the heat and humidity bothers most locals * the favourable tourist times being centre…
The one that I was quite confident would be widely agreed upon was "freezing", since it has such a literal meaning of a temperature where water freezes.
But as with all things weather, its complicated. Personal preference, clothing choices, activities, all contribute.
But we hope the fingerprints are nevertheless and informative and interesting way to explore the average weather!
It'd be cool to be able to show the most similar fingerprints for any location. I.e. I want to see which locations have similar climate to city X.
https://weatherspark.com/y/23912/Average-Weather-in-New-York... is the closest to a direct link
It's a little weird looking at e.g., Central Africa and seeing no maps. Maybe they chose locations based on population? Either way, would be nice to fix this, as there are places with data available.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every page & image (they’re all embedded SVGs) is generated from scratch using raw data on every request - with the number of languages and units supported it gets quite unwieldy when pre-generating (we had a mediocre experience w that on statisticalatlas.com). In order to render in a timely fashion the sections & graphs are rendered in parallel on a decent sized instance.
A middle ground could just be adding some caching?
That said, it might make sense to cache to protect against load spikes on specific pages, but unfortunately those don't happen a whole lot.
Very cool. Reiterate other's comments that mouse-over a fingerprint showing a hover would be great. When clicking a fingerprint, the next page should prominently show the fingerprint, burying it in the page, especially when it isn't obviously a long scroll page, made it hard to find. Please consider inverting "Spring" etc for Southern Hemisphere, as currently it has a _very_ Northern centric view of the world. Thanks…
Spring in Sydney is Sep-Nov: https://weatherspark.com/s/144544/0/Average-Spring-Weather-i...
But maybe you meant something else?
Very cool. Reiterate other's comments that mouse-over a fingerprint showing a hover would be great. When clicking a fingerprint, the next page should prominently show the fingerprint, burying it in the page, especially when it isn't obviously a long scroll page, made it hard to find. Please consider inverting "Spring" etc for Southern Hemisphere, as currently it has a _very_ Northern centric view of the world. Thanks…
Spring in NYC is Mar-May: https://weatherspark.com/s/23912/0/Average-Spring-Weather-in... Spring in Sydney is Sep-Nov: https://weatherspark.com/s/144544/0/Average-Spring-Weather-i... But maybe you meant something else?
https://weatherspark.com/compare/s/0/23912~149466/Comparison...
This second link gives a better view
https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/23912~149466/Comparison-o...