[HN Gopher] Days Since Incident (2022)
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Days Since Incident (2022)
Author : throwaway_08932
Score : 85 points
Date : 2024-02-08 19:35 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (neal.fun)
(TXT) w3m dump (neal.fun)
| j-j-j-j wrote:
| I'm curious how is this being updated.
| Etheryte wrote:
| Every section has an information button which says where the
| data is sourced from.
| SamBam wrote:
| I think the question may have been more about method of
| updating.
|
| I know the USGS websites have great API support, and I
| imagine the NASA solar flare reporting does as well, so I
| expect most of this is automatic.
|
| The ones going to Wikipedia articles must be done by hand, so
| those will stop being updated when Neal gets bored of
| updating.
| tutfbhuf wrote:
| Any seasoned engineer would hardcode the values at the bottom
| of the page.
| Oarch wrote:
| Isn't there a volcanic eruption happening Iceland right now? I
| think that one is already out of date.
| SushiHippie wrote:
| Seems like their source hasn't updated this
|
| https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=eruptionsbyyea.
| ..
| annoyingnoob wrote:
| What constitutes a volcanic eruption? Thinking about Iceland
| right now.
| SamBam wrote:
| Not sure if you're referring to the 2010 eruption of
| Eyjafjallajokull that shut down air travel, but that was a VEI
| 4 eruption, and there have been more recent VEI 4 eruptions
| (the most recent, according to this, was the Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba
| eruption in 2021) and so it doesn't show.
| jw1224 wrote:
| There is literally one happening right now:
| https://www.youtube.com/live/LmqYgnsmSSA?si=b9jBEFDLE7QHry2_
| SamBam wrote:
| Sure, but I don't think it's even at VEI 4 yet.
|
| This site seems to be saying that VEI 4 is the max it
| _could_ reach, if I 'm understanding it right: https://gdac
| s.org/report.aspx?eventid=1000080&episodeid=7&ev...
| annoyingnoob wrote:
| I guess the Smithsonian site is not updated regularly.
| throwawayai2 wrote:
| I like the design of this site, but honestly these are things
| just not worth worrying about.
| justusthane wrote:
| I'm fairly certain the point of this page isn't to worry about
| these events. Knowing the type of things Neal builds (you
| should definitely explore his other stuff), it's likely just
| for fun, and an interesting way to present this information.
| 2024throwaway wrote:
| The TLD is literally .fun
| pockybum522 wrote:
| Why does category 5 hurricane not also constitute a category 2
| hurricane. Seems silly to differentiate by what level they end up
| at when a cat 5 has also, by definition, made it to cat 2 at some
| point.
|
| Other than that, this is fun.
| Beardy wrote:
| I think it makes sense to differentiate them, just as you would
| differentiate them if it was displayed as a graph of "number of
| hurricanes by category". If you only include the highest
| category, you miss out on data that might also be useful, for
| instance whether there have been more category 1 hurricanes
| compared to category 5.
|
| If it didn't differentiate them and the last category 5
| hurricane was 110 days ago but the last category 1 hurricane
| was 2 days ago, how would you learn about the category 1
| hurricane? In your example it would just show hurricane
| categories 1-5 sequentially all bunched together, so you'd also
| be duplicating data which wouldn't be that useful.
| thewarpaint wrote:
| Implicitly what it's saying is: "Hurricane reaching a maximum
| category of X"
| guhcampos wrote:
| That was my assumption, too, but the website shows 110 days
| since the last cat 5 but 114 days since the last cat 2, and
| they're not the same event.
|
| More than that: the last cat 5 is "Otis" while the last cat 2
| is "Tammy". AFAIK they are named in alphabetical order?
|
| Something seems fishy in this dataset.
| SamBam wrote:
| I mean, you can ask the meteorologists about the process of
| naming, but those hurricanes actually existed, on the dates
| suggested, so I'm not sure what's "fishy" about it.
|
| Hurricane Tammy, Cat 2, October 18, 2023:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Tammy
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| Hurricane Otis, Cat 5, October 22, 2023:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Otis
|
| I believe that the naming relates to which ocean they're
| forming in, but it's probably good for you to do your own
| research, so you can clear up any "fishiness" yourself.
| richardwhiuk wrote:
| I think the poster is suggesting that the Cat 5 should
| also count as a Cat 2 as Cat 5 is stronger than Cat 2.
| throwbadubadu wrote:
| There are several region dependent different name lists,
| just have a look at
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_naming
| guhcampos wrote:
| Came here to ask the same thing. I always assumed a higher
| class necessarily was a lower class before. Curious.
| adamfeldman wrote:
| The purpose of this hurricane rating scale is to "provide some
| indication of the potential damage and flooding a hurricane
| will cause upon landfall."
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir%E2%80%93Simpson_scale
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Days Since Incident - tracker of natural disasters on Earth_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018771 - Sept 2022 (38
| comments)
| cangeroo wrote:
| Is there one for Boeing also?
| bloopernova wrote:
| There are 500 metre high Megatsunami? O_O
|
| Sure, sure, don't worry about it, but being told that the
| tsunamis in _The Abyss_ could be real? Good lord that is shocking
| to me.
|
| Some of the effects of a wave like that can be read here:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and...
|
| _" Over 30 million cubic meters of rock fell from a height of
| several hundred meters into the bay, creating the megatsunami."_
| croisillon wrote:
| i wish there was an additional line with each (known) previous
| incident
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