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Visualising weather reports as a graph

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Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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I really like the way that the Norwegian site yr.no does this:

http://www.yr.no/place/United_States/California/San_Francisc...

Nice and simple, without any fancy Flash/animation going on. Take a look at the "Detailed" view to see pressure and cloud cover on the same graph.

Compare the two of them, and I find this much more readable.

Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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I really like the way that the Norwegian site yr.no does this: http://www.yr.no/place/United_States/California/San_Francisc... Nice and simple, without any fancy Flash/animation going on. Take a look at the "Detailed" view to see pressure and cloud cover on the same graph. Compare the two of them, and I find this much more readable.

I like the layout of yr.no better too. Unfortunately it is only in Celsius so not as useful for me...

Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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I really like the way that the Norwegian site yr.no does this: http://www.yr.no/place/United_States/California/San_Francisc... Nice and simple, without any fancy Flash/animation going on. Take a look at the "Detailed" view to see pressure and cloud cover on the same graph. Compare the two of them, and I find this much more readable.

Thanks! I'm a sysadmin at met.no, and will forward your comments to the devs.

I found the OP solution interesting in regards to visualizing historical observations. As of now, we have a system seperate from yr.no for that (but I believe it is still accessible from api.met.no).

Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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post #6

I really like the way that the Norwegian site yr.no does this: http://www.yr.no/place/United_States/California/San_Francisc... Nice and simple, without any fancy Flash/animation going on. Take a look at the "Detailed" view to see pressure and cloud cover on the same graph. Compare the two of them, and I find this much more readable.

Thanks! I'm a sysadmin at met.no, and will forward your comments to the devs. I found the OP solution interesting in regards to visualizing historical observations. As of now, we have a system seperate from yr.no for that (but I believe it is still accessible from api.met.no).

Great work on the graphics - concise and informative.

Coverage in western Europe for wind speed and pressure on the advanced map is limited to the North Sea, and Northeastern Atlantic. Is this due to limited access to the data or because Scandanavians think that it is always sunny and warm in Iberia so the weather is not worth reporting.

Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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Would be cool if you changed Europe/Vilnius shortcut to Lithuania with capital Vilnius and not Vilniusstrasse in Austria :)

http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=Europe/Vilnius

suggesting to replace it with: http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;ws=29009

By the way I really like viewing weather as graph! Nicely done.

Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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I really like the way that the Norwegian site yr.no does this: http://www.yr.no/place/United_States/California/San_Francisc... Nice and simple, without any fancy Flash/animation going on. Take a look at the "Detailed" view to see pressure and cloud cover on the same graph. Compare the two of them, and I find this much more readable.

I also like yr.no and the hour by hour view it provides. As many other Swedes I use it every day. A plus for yr.no is all the free data that is available! Probably the best weather site there is, if you're in a northern Europe country at least. http://om.yr.no/verdata/free-weather-data/
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