Tag: weather
Improving local weather forecasts using Tessera embeddings
New paper showing that a frozen TESSERA embedding improves probabilistic weather downscaling, improving local temperature and wind predictions at never-observed sites.
#oneaday Day 763: My brain has melted
It's been unbearably hot again today. The thing I hate the most about unbearably hot weather is how lethargic it makes you in both body and mind. It has cooled off a fair bit now the sun has gone down, but my brain is still in a semi-liquid state, meaning it is proving enormously difficult...
it is SO hot outside
i think I’m at least medium rare after sitting in my car on the way home
depressing thoughts
thing i wish i didn't have to worry about today: i wonder if the heat is going to melt the duct tape holding the bumper on my car
#oneaday Day 750: Cooling and cat-proofing
The heat wave we've been suffering all week appears to have broken; outside is a relatively normal-feeling temperature right now, the humidity is down to levels where it's actually possible to breathe, and the sky has taken on a typically British summertime partially overcast look. It's really quite pleasant; if it could just stay like...
Dolphin Astronomy
Tuesday morning, and I’m feeling the repercussions of not listening about the sunscreen. After a quick breakfast we head out to a local grocery store so I can buy some, because we will absolutely need it today.
It's Only Monday and I'm Already Burnt
Today was our first real day here. Our flight from Brisbane to Auckland yesterday was delayed a bit, so by the time we got to AKL, it was closer to 18:00* local time. But then we had to make our way through immigration, collect luggage, and then proceed through customs and bio-screening to make sure we weren’t bringing anything harmful into the country and local ecology, and they’re pretty serious about it. Bringing in an undeclared banana could cost you $400.
Bando to Anraku-ji, Day 2 of 8
N.B. I was in a mood when I wrote this, so it will differ from the rest of my posts somewhat. Additionally, some of the more interesting photos would have been within the temple grounds. But as those are active places of worship, it is rude to take photos. So I’ve tried to make due with what interesting sights I could outside of the temples themselves.
First Day in Osaka, or WHY IS IT SO HOT?
Due to the time zones and international date line, I lost a day. I left home Friday morning and arrived Saturday night. After getting out of customs and into the airport, I was amazed at just how hot and humid it was. The place is massive and so it took a bit to find where to buy tickets because there were a lot of different options. Google gave me a plethora of ways to get to the hotel, and after skipping Friday and not sleeping and how bloody hot it was I just went with the advice from Walk Japan to take the Haruko Limited Express to Shin-Osaka. I found that ticket machine and then had no idea how to go about buying it because that wasn’t exactly straight forward… Or maybe it was and I was just addled. Thankfully a really nice attendant, who spoke English perfectly offered to help me. I mention she spoke perfect English only because while I’m good at the “we don’t speak the same language let’s try to communicate anyway” shuffle, see previous comment about the weather and my likely delirious state.
Hot weather
Hot days are getting more and more frequent & there's not a ton we can do about it at this point.
The Leech Machine
The parasitic creatures that could have been the key to Victorian-era meteorology, and the guy who had that weird idea.
Unlocking My Air Data Through API Analysis
Reverse-engineering the undocumented REST API on a home air quality monitor to extract historical sensor data and run custom analysis in Python.
Projects Published And Verified
PerformanceTweet and WeatherBar got picked up and verified on SoftPedia and SoftSea, adding download mirrors and a developer page on the directory.
Using The Google Weather API - Pros And Cons So Far
Comparing Google's undocumented weather endpoint with Yahoo's WOEID-based API and WeatherBug, with notes on city/ZIP lookups and response speed.
Weather In The Taskbar
WeatherBar, a .NET app for the CodeProject Windows 7 contest that surfaces Google Weather API conditions through the Windows 7 taskbar and jump lists.