How am I supposed to focus on the draft with this going on or the window?
Gettin my fantasy football draft on.
Hurricane Earl along the North Carolina coast at 11:30am today.
Forgot to post this picture up. George Washington bridge eastbound this past Sunday evening. I got honked at immediately after snapping this shot.
Taking my friends boat to the beach this morning.
Edit: I took this photo and sent it at 6am this morning and it just posted now for some reason.
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Found a live stream of the weather channel to watch while I’m working!
Seriously!?
As I was driving to where my friend’s boat is to go surf, we noticed this huge fire on Rt. 110 and Merrick Road in Amityville this morning around 6am.
(via jonathanfraser)
jstn:
This is something I’ve been working on for a long time, and now that we’ve reached the height of hurricane season I’m excited to reveal it.
Radarmatic is a weather radar visualizer. It uses HTML5 and its own API to draw radar images with live data from the National Weather Service.
The white dots on the map represent 155 radar sites across the US. As you drag it around, the radar closest to the center of the map will light up with its most recent data. The colored areas show where precipitation is occurring at varying levels of intensity. Pushing play will animate the last few hours.
The imagery is not pre-generated, but rather drawn in-browser with Javascript. For this reason it can be processor intensive, especially while animating. Safari and Chrome are recommended over Firefox.
I’ve always wanted to do something with radar data. The NWS creates an incredible wealth of information available every day about the physical world around us, but it’s locked away in an obscure binary file format developed long before the web. In order to visualize the data the way I wanted to, much bigger and in crazier colors than I’d ever seen used for weather radar before, I needed to translate it to a format I already understood.
After many hours of research and fumbling around with a hex editor, I wrote a program in C called radar2json to convert the binary product files from the NWS into JSON (and which I’ve open sourced under the MIT license). I built a web service around it that anyone can use.
From a user interface standpoint, I set out to make something that puts as much focus as possible on the imagery itself and drastically reduces the friction of moving through it. Every other interface to radar data I’ve seen so far is scientifically oriented and does a poor job of being tactile and interactive, which I think is important for making a rich impression of what’s happening in our physical environment.
Give it a try and let me know what you think. And keep your eye on the Carolinas in the next 24 hours!
This is amazing!! Excellent work, Justin!
Damn you earl
Kenny snapped his board this morning in the shorebreak!
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laydownyourburdens asked: I think I get more tropical weather reports from you than any other source, just sayin' :)
Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
yvanpontino asked: So, forgive me because I'm unfamiliar with this, but does a Hurricane usually mean good swell in your neck of the woods?
YES and tons of it! As long as it has the right track and intensity. I made a post 2 years ago (yikes, that was a while ago) briefly explaining how we get swell from hurricanes and tropical storms.