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Re: Ventusky – Weather data visualization

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Post by pmoriarty »

mrfusion wrote: post #55

Offshoot topic. How can I find the windiest places in the us? I'm looking to move somewhere warmer and I was thinking a strong consistent wind would mitigate the hot summers.

Warm is not necessarily bad if it's not humid. The San Francisco Bay area gets up in to the 90's sometimes in the summer, but it's quite bearable because it's not very humid (don't know why, since it's so close to water). In New York and further south on the East Coast, it gets to be as hot or hotter, but with 100% humidity -- it's torture.

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hrodriguez wrote: post #47

Does it make sense to anyone that this kind of data should be layered on regular mapping applications (directions, traffic, shops)? Or is it too much? I like the idea of visiting Google Maps, for example, and being able to toggle snippets of this kind of weather data onto the map itself. Other useful, one-click, toggles could include: 1. Real Estate Listings for a given area 2. Demographics 3. Forecasts & Historical…

The issue is data accuracy/normalization and availability especially for data sets like crime data and local events.

Real estate would be a little easier via the MLS (I suspect the cost is prohibitive though) and demographic data is easily available.

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Post by knz »

mrfusion wrote: post #55

Offshoot topic. How can I find the windiest places in the us? I'm looking to move somewhere warmer and I was thinking a strong consistent wind would mitigate the hot summers.

If it's windy, then there is probably already a wind farm there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_State...).

Strong winds and heat are not that pleasant - look up areas that experience the Foehn wind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foehn_wind), known as the Chinook Winds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind) in North America.

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Post by superkuh »

CalRobert wrote: post #68

Cool! This reminds me a bit of weatherspark, which used to have a fantastic tool for visualizing long term trends. What were the 10th/50th/90th percentile temps for a given day over the last 30 years, etc. I wonder if the data sets here could be used to build something similar.

Everyone misses weatherspark. It's been a year since they went down and there's still no replacement for their historical weather viewer. I know they decided to stop because their flash based API for the radar map was depreciated but even just the historical and predicted line plots of weather data I'd pay money for.

Ventusky is no weatherspark replacement and I don't think the models they're drawing their data from would work for one.

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