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Meteorologist turned HN junkie here: this is really cool and I love the commenter suggesting using dual pol data to do the heavy lifting for you. My question
by graupel 13y ago
Meteorologist turned HN junkie here: this is really cool and I love the commenter suggesting using dual pol data to do the heavy lifting for you.
My question about your radar data is this; it's beautiful but I absolutely hate the color palette you are using, from a weather perspective - why not just stick with the 'standard' green-to-red colors we all know and love? The purples are different, for sure - but really hard to make sense of!
- thegrossman 13y agoThe color palette of the images in the blog post was adjusted to highlight areas of precipitation at the expense of intensity discrimination. Dark Sky itself uses a wider range, but it's still a similar blue to purple to salmon to yellow color table. The reason we went with that over the standard green-to-red color table is because I personally find the standard colors to be jarring and more confusing to the casual user because of the increased contrast between intensity bands (at least, it certainly was to me back when I was a casual weather app user!) The tradeoff is that there isn't as fine an intensity discrimination at lower intensities. In theory I can see how that can be a problem, but I haven't noticed it in practice.