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Hurricane Matthew Visualization
- eth0up 10y agoFeeling it here in Sarasota, FL, mildly. It's forecast to do a strange loop, heading north and spiraling back to approximately where it presently is, but a bit N/E. It will be interesting if it does. And Nicole is right on its tail.
- CrossWired 10y agoWatching my trees here in Tampa, the kids school getting canceled and having to change our plans for the day is about the biggest impact we've felt here. Ohh and the roads were wide open when we went out for breakfast.
- eth0up 10y agoLittle more than grey skies and a little sea-side chop here today. A relative in the St Augustine area, however, has reported loss of the entire garden, vicious winds and sustained power outage. Trees were expected to come down, as of a few hours ago. "Wide open" roads in Tampa is difficult to imagine.
- alokedesai 10y agoThis looks like a van gogh painting if you zoom all the way out. Regardless, great work! This is really important.
- thekevan 10y agoI'm a little confused by the swirling pattern. It doesn't represent the eye, it seems to merely by a pattern to denote the highest wind speeds, not the spiral of a hurricane. The reason I say this is in the lower right there are three models in the lower right and the center of the pattern moves around when you select each one. Also, with one of the options, it puts the center on the coast at Fort Pierce as I write this, however it's off the coast of Palm Beach and hasn't made landfall anywhere.
- lastbestmatt 10y agoI also notice that the size of the eye changes depending on your zoom level. There are a number of ways you could explain that, but it's not clear what's actually going on.
- hprotagonist 10y agoInteresting stuff. I wish you could change the color map, though; jet is Considered Harmful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
- hooloovoo_zoo 10y agoLink to the paper cited by the video regarding effectiveness of colormaps: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8667395/evaluation_of_artery.pdf https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8667395/evaluati...
- sillysaurus3 10y agoThe paper doesn't seem to support the idea that rainbow visualization is harmful for 2D visualizations. Diagram: http://i.imgur.com/E7aNLuM.png http://i.imgur.com/E7aNLuM.png We observed no statistically significant effects of color scheme on any of the participants' subjective responses.
- imajes 10y agoalso, https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-67.74,22.87,1458/loc=-78.222,26.812 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort... source: https://github.com/cambecc/earth https://github.com/cambecc/earth
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- jackweirdy 10y agoIs it heading up to Virginia? Wondering if AWS us-east problems might be on the cards
- fjarlq 10y agoNope. Latest projected path from the National Hurricane Center has it hitting the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina before heading back out to sea: http://i.imgur.com/4zGAx1R.gif http://i.imgur.com/4zGAx1R.gif
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- eCa 10y agoAnd then it is likely to (weakened) head back over the Bahamas and possibly southern Florida.
- maxerickson 10y agoWouldn't they select an essentially flood proof location? (the economic factors that drive settlement in flood prone regions don't really apply to data centers, so I would expect it to be accounted for even by much less sophisticated operations)
- eevilspock 10y agoa bit cleaner: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-85.29,38.28,640 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort... I presume it works off the same source data.
- elihu 10y agoFor what it's worth, here's the thread about that visualization tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415488
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- mark-r 10y agoWow, glad I took my trip out of Port Canaveral last week! This really is a fantastic visualization, thanks.
- ameen 10y agoHad light showers in Tampa. Thankfully it isn't expected to reach us. A natural calamity makes us realize that we aren't really in control.
- cha-cho 10y agoAnother option: https://www.windytv.com/?25.314,-76.003,6 https://www.windytv.com/?25.314,-76.003,6
- Dowwie 10y agosame backend, slightly different design?
- bsdetector 10y agohttps://earth.nullschool.net/ https://earth.nullschool.net/ This is the oldest of this kind of map that I know of. It includes source on the About page.
- athenot 10y agoThis one seems much more efficient, at least on Safari. In contrast, the OP link pegs CPU to 100%.
- 15thandwhatever 10y agoIt's using your laptop fan to simulate the sounds of the hurricane.
- mikk14 10y agoIt is worth noting that the inventors of this particular type of visualization for wind data were Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg (former IBM, now Google, as far as I can remember). A pity that they are rarely mentioned. http://hint.fm/wind/ http://hint.fm/wind/
- conqrr 10y agoSomething seems off...Isnt the eye of the storm supposed to be calm, it shows high speeds at the center.
- Ciantic 10y agoYou have to click "Wind Speed" to see that simulated. By default it seems to be "Wind Gusts".
- icantdrive55 10y agoI clicked wind speed? Anyways, I cringe when I think about what little insurance will cover. Im stepping on my soap box, but wouldn't a national public insurance program make sense? Take all profit out of the insurance industry? It just seems like insurance is one area of business/life that the government might do better?
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- emilburzo 10y agoAre there any public online webcams in the area?
- Shelnutt2 10y agoHere is a list of beach cams. Most don't seem to be operational this morning. http://www.mybeachcams.com/florida/east-central/ http://www.mybeachcams.com/florida/east-central/
- Dowwie 10y agoI've never used Ventusky before. Wow. I am very impressed. Panning out creates a Starry Night effect. :)
- imglorp 10y agoThere's a giant center of rotation parked over the North Atlantic, just off Greenland. The wind speeds are only moderate but it's huge.
- phkahler 10y agoThe size may be due to the map projection. I like the front passing through the middle of the US just west of Chicago. Wind direction changes abruptly along that one.
- crazydoggers 10y agoIt's actually pretty large even looking at an orthographic projection: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-49.11,50.72,732 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort... You can see it form if you go back a couple of hours. I'm assuming it's some form of extratropical cyclone?
- btbuildem 10y agoProjection should play no role here -- the data is visualized on a globe.
- btbuildem 10y agohttp://www.livescience.com/7215-greenland-mysterious-winds-tied-global-climate.html http://www.livescience.com/7215-greenland-mysterious-winds-t...
- btbuildem 10y agoOne thing that strikes me is how far apart the weather models are on a thing that's happening RIGHT NOW. Also, https://www.windytv.com/?29.334,-81.156,6 https://www.windytv.com/?29.334,-81.156,6 gives way more information (eg, ocean swell / wave height) and forecast for the next five days.