[HN Gopher] Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature "... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature "fingerprints" Author : jacobn Score : 58 points Date : 2021-10-12 21:07 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (weatherspark.com) (TXT) w3m dump (weatherspark.com) | lifthrasiir wrote: | Nitpick: Changing the temperature unit does not automatically | update the help modal (elsewhere is fine); it seems that a | particular language is always associated with a particular unit. | jacobn wrote: | Ah, fixed, thanks! | crancher wrote: | 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. | jacobn wrote: | 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 in it again. | | I don't like the ads. I'd rather offer the site without them. | But without them the site wouldn't be up - I'd have to turn off | the servers, and there wouldn't be a map of temperature | fingerprints at all. | | I really wish there were a better solution. But so far there | just isn't. | | At least we don't do anti-ad-block ;) | | (I'm one of the site creators) | pininja wrote: | I agree, without reading your comment I thought the map | fingerprints were linking to a tabloid weather report. I went | back and realized the pages have very well developed | interactive data visualizations. | mutagen wrote: | I miss the old WeatherSpark visualization of past conditions and | the future forecast. | | They had a wonderful graph of various weather parameters in a | nice slippy zoom interface that made it easy to visualize the | forecast. It was built in Flash and they decided that a HTML | version wasn't viable due to declining ad revenue. | | Some appreciation and screenshots of the old version: | | https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sad-day-weatherspark-dashboar... | | https://flowingdata.com/2011/03/14/weatherspark-for-more-gra... | | https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/4hkbq4/rest_in_pea... | | https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2016/20160004.pdf - The | interface was even noted in a NOAA paper. | jacobn wrote: | Yeah, those were good times indeed. I try not to think too much | about just how many hours/days/weeks/months I spent writing | creatively cached Flash graph drawing to get the silky smooth | pan & zoom behavior the dashboard offered. | | But while lord Google is amazing at indexing SEOd text content, | they aren't (weren't?) very good at feeding traffic to a tool | with effectively no text. How could they know it was a good way | to view the forecast for San Francisco without having a | dedicated weathespark.com/forecast/san_francisco page with a | decent amount of text along the lines of "forecast", "ten day | forecast", "temperature", "precipitation", "rain", etc? | | We did try to do something like that but Google never picked it | up - while many people loved the dashboard, as a fraction of | overall forecast consumers it was probably quite tiny, so I | can't say I blame them ;) | WmyEE0UsWAwC2i wrote: | That dashboard was gold. RIP. | floatrock wrote: | Searching for any recipe shows the same paperclip-maximizing- | gone-amok do-not-want SEO trap: I don't care about some made- | up story about how this ratatouille makes you think of | summers at grandma's garden. That's all empty word-calories | best left for the writers at pixar. Something truly | revolutionary would be if google ranked recipe sites by | higher recipe-to-fluff ratios. | | Thanks for developing all the stuff at weatherspark. It's one | of my favorite practical examples of compact visualization | done right. | NelsonMinar wrote: | 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. | jacobn wrote: | We've talked about it, but so far no, it messes with the x-axis | a little too much (averages, history, compare, everything needs | to work & line up across both time & northern/southern | hemisphere, and what graph has two x-axes anyway!? ;) and while | neat it's a little marginal from a substantive utility | perspective? | gmurphy wrote: | 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. | jacobn wrote: | Hmm... maybe for just the compare pages then? I'll chat with | James about it to see what we can do. | | (I'm one of the site creators) | NKosmatos wrote: | Wow! Such a great site and very good visualization of weather | data in easy to read plots/graphs. | dom96 wrote: | This is really awesome visualisation. Really shows at a glance | the climate of each location. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-12 23:00 UTC)