As a Meteorologist, I love this! There is one little thing to be aware of with using Purple Air for temperatures, though, as their primary purpose is AQI not temp, all temp data comes with this disclaimer. That said, everything is still at lease directionally accurate.
"Temperature, estimated using a formula temp = 1.0227 * raw_temp_f - 9.3755 developed by Lance Wallace to account for heat generated by the WiFi module and other electronics in a PurpleAir sensor. This will not be accurate for all situations. More information can be found in Lance Wallace's notes."
While I, as a Meteorologist and formerly involved in the TV business, I agree with you on using visuals entirely to overstate this, the fact that the field in the dome was set up before the storm to house thousands of electrical lineman and relief workers expected after the storm, says that the roof coming off was NOT an expected outcome from Milton, making it a reasonable way to tell the story on the news.
> to house thousands of electrical lineman and relief workers expected after the storm
This was the crux of the story at least locally in Central Florida. I have no idea if that was lost in coverage outside of the area in favor of the visual impacts of the torn roof.
I live fairly close to the wonderful museum this is located at on Hill Air Force Base north of SLC.
This new exhibit is really neat but not very big, all things considered, and not worth the trip on its own.
What is worth the trip is the museum as a whole, with an F-117, the only SR-71C in existence, an F22, and all kinds of other planes and rockets - it's not Wright-Patterson, but it's one of the better USAF museums I've been to.
The Air Quality and Pollen data in these APIs are from Google's fairly recent purchase of Breezometer, the same company Apple uses for AQI across iOS weather products.
Sure but B52s have 8 of those engines and they don't need baffles and/or aren't destroying them on a weekly basis. That story could be true but it seems unlikely that it would be U2 planes that are causing enough turbulence to destroy piled up mounds of dirt by the runways.
you reminded me i had to cancel mine, and it took 5 minutes. They did offer "streaming only" for $4 a month, but i've had that on my phones for years and used it no times, so i said "i don't use it".
i got an $8 refund and a confirmation number, and that was it.
It's hard to envision the FiveThirtyEight brand without Nate Silver being involved in it. I know they are going to keep it going as a stats-driven site, but so much of it was built on Nate's original and unique approach to data.
Agreed. Nate Silver did a great job when he stuck to data/statistics. However, in the last few election cycles, 538 seemed to allow its analysis to be colored by their editorial position.
"Temperature, estimated using a formula temp = 1.0227 * raw_temp_f - 9.3755 developed by Lance Wallace to account for heat generated by the WiFi module and other electronics in a PurpleAir sensor. This will not be accurate for all situations. More information can be found in Lance Wallace's notes."