Is there an API to get high resolution 3D volumetric data of storm systems?
Windy.com
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Re: Windy.com
#132Good site.
I like to watch the current wind reports.
Add that together with twitter reports and flightradar24 and you can actually get some idea what a wildfire is doing. It's an area where government and the local news are essentially useless.
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#133It's like what Weather Underground used to be like.
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#134Random observation: nowhere is 60 degrees F.
I'm looking at San Francisco, as well as Portland and Seattle, all of which the temperature is right around 60. No matter how much I zoom in or out, there are dozens of 59s and 61s, but no 60. Curious why. It can't be coincidence based on how many I looked at.
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#135Windy is great. The map is appealing, but be sure to check out the forecast view for a particular location. Also make sure you try different locations. I'm in the Salish Sea on Orcas Island in the San Juans and because we have a lot of topography here mixed with ocean, we have a lot of local effects, contour winds and so on and there are big differences between locations. Also note that Windy can get it wrong. I grew…
> Windy is great.
I don't like the zooming ratio
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#136Random observation: nowhere is 60 degrees F. I'm looking at San Francisco, as well as Portland and Seattle, all of which the temperature is right around 60. No matter how much I zoom in or out, there are dozens of 59s and 61s, but no 60. Curious why. It can't be coincidence based on how many I looked at.
15C is 59F, 16C is 60.8F so I'd say using integer Celcius and converting to Fahrenheit
Re: Windy.com
#137Random observation: nowhere is 60 degrees F. I'm looking at San Francisco, as well as Portland and Seattle, all of which the temperature is right around 60. No matter how much I zoom in or out, there are dozens of 59s and 61s, but no 60. Curious why. It can't be coincidence based on how many I looked at.
My guess is the data is stored in Celsius but displayed in Fahrenheit.
15C = 59F 16C = 60.8F
Re: Windy.com
#138Random observation: nowhere is 60 degrees F. I'm looking at San Francisco, as well as Portland and Seattle, all of which the temperature is right around 60. No matter how much I zoom in or out, there are dozens of 59s and 61s, but no 60. Curious why. It can't be coincidence based on how many I looked at.
This is likely due to the source data being vended in whole number increments in degrees Celsius. Converting between Celsius and Fahrenheit using only whole numbers would not allow for 60 to show up (it is between 15 and 16 degrees C, which would convert to 59 and 61). There was a large story around this same issue in the Apple weather app, not showing 69 degrees F prior to iOS 15.
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#139How is something so moronic all the way at the top of HN for HOURS. Are you all fucking retards who didn't know where the wind goes?
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#140In the future, I really look forward to owning a globe that shows time-lapse clouds in very high resolution.
I don't see a reason why this cannot already exist.