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Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

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Post by detaro » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 12:36 AM UTC

xahrepap wrote: post #20

This reminds me of “Temperature Blankets”. They seem pretty well known in knitting/crocheting world. Typically they’ll do a row or two of a color representing the weather for each day of the year. My wife made one for the year 2020. It’s really neat looking at it and seeing how the weather fluctuated in and out the days and weeks. I think it would be so cool to have several for different important/notable years… but…

A variant on that: A German woman did a scarf with lines showing how much her commuter train was delayed: https://www.dw.com/en/german-train-delay-scarf-sells-for-tho...

Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

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Post by Bologo » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 12:54 AM UTC

It's okay but this real-time map of the weather anywhere in the world is more useful I think, with a nicer interface too: https://www.ventusky.com/

Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

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Post by jazzyjackson » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 1:05 AM UTC

nice! I might like to apply this to a geodesic sphere, could be arbitrarily divisible, images could fill the faces instead of floating above the map in boxes.

Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

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Post by yesenadam » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 1:13 AM UTC

This is so awesome, thank you! I've got friends in quite a few countries, and this in 20 minutes has told me more about what it's like where they live than I learned in the previous 10 years.

Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

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Post by vlovich123 » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 1:18 AM UTC

Would it be possible to animate this over time to visualize the impact of global warming?

Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

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Post by jacobn » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 1:29 AM UTC

xahrepap wrote: post #20

This reminds me of “Temperature Blankets”. They seem pretty well known in knitting/crocheting world. Typically they’ll do a row or two of a color representing the weather for each day of the year. My wife made one for the year 2020. It’s really neat looking at it and seeing how the weather fluctuated in and out the days and weeks. I think it would be so cool to have several for different important/notable years… but…

The closest thing we have for specific years is this: https://weatherspark.com/h/y/557/2020/Historical-Weather-dur...

It’s not available on the world map, but you can drill down to any year in any location we have data for.

Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

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Post by foota » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 1:30 AM UTC

This is a really neat site! I've always wanted a feature that would show me areas with similar weather to a certain location (or allow me to draw my own graph to find).

Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

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Post by vlovich123 » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 1:31 AM UTC

jacobn wrote: post #6

crancher wrote: post #2

The density and type of ads masks well presented information. I don't see the ads but am left unwilling to share links to the site where I sure would otherwise.

Yeah, the ads are a double-edged sword. We've been running this site for... ten years? And for the longest time it languished with some Google Adsense ads on there, making enough to keep the servers running, but not enough to invest more effort in it. Then we recently switched ad provider, and the site grew a bit as covid started easing up, revenue doubled with the potential for more, and boom it's worth it to invest…

I'm curious. What do the hosting costs & tech stack looks like? I'm assuming you're mostly just serving some static content & some server costs to generate the images periodically? Is there anything else?

Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

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Post by buildbuildbuild » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 1:43 AM UTC

So many ads.

Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

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Post by tshaddox » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 1:59 AM UTC

gmurphy wrote: post #13

NelsonMinar wrote: post #8

Congratulations on the new thing! I've loved Weatherspark ever since y'all were doing very innovative presentation back in 2013 or so. One suggestion; have you tried re-centering Southern hemisphere calendars so summer is still in the middle? The "red dot in the middle" is such a clear pattern, no reason you couldn't have it in Australia too.

Double agree with this suggestion - as I've split my life between hemispheres, weatherspark has been enormously useful for explaining relative climates to new and old friends, but I always have to edit the comparison graphs myself to put summer in the middle before sharing so you can actually compare the differences.

Same here. Funny enough they seem to have done the adjustment for the similar cities feature (“far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar”) but when you click to compare them the charts are all unadjusted.