[HN Gopher] Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery
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Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery
Author : lds133
Score : 265 points
Date : 2024-09-20 16:31 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| LeoPanthera wrote:
| Ha, this is great. I hooked up an old photo frame to OpenAI's
| DALL-E image generator, which is told to make an image based on
| the current weather data right now. It updates every few hours.
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| This is what it's showing right now: https://ibb.co/8K5jZ3B
| riedel wrote:
| See also: https://github.com/blixt/sol-mate-eink (using city
| images)
| kbutler wrote:
| This is really lovely!
| rickcarlino wrote:
| Love the monochrome artwork, great work on this project.
| 3abiton wrote:
| This is one of the best microcontroller projects I've encoutered
| recently! Amazing work!
| tamimio wrote:
| Looks great, would love if it was fully offline and interface
| with sensors directly
| celie56 wrote:
| Maybe I misread the docs, but it looked like it was generating
| a visual for the whole day. If this were offline you could have
| it double as a clock and regenerate the image every N minutes.
| nelblu wrote:
| Great work! That said if we are focusing on the UX, windy.com has
| got the best weather reporting experience.
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| Ex: I am almost never interested in "30% chance of shower at
| 08:00pm" type of forecast. I am more interested in the trend in
| which the clouds/rains are moving. This helps me figure out which
| direction I can drive to get the best sunshine or whatever else.
|
| Is there anyone else who is doing it the way windy.com is doing?
| I really love them, and so far their experience is great (almost
| no dark UX patterns), that said I would love to see some more
| competition in this space.
| captainkrtek wrote:
| I'm a big fan of Meteoblue, they provide a lot of different
| forecast ensemble visualizations. While not the same as windy
| in terms of ux, it does a good job of conveying model
| uncertainty and model agreement.
| unanimous wrote:
| Zoom Earth is similar to Windy.com
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| https://zoom.earth/
| adamfeldman wrote:
| Weather Strip (iOS) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-
| strip/id1528594026
| jasonmarks_ wrote:
| > This helps me figure out which direction I can drive to get
| the best sunshine or whatever else.
|
| I published a road trip weather app that crunches forecasts for
| you if you're going for a drive and would like to avoid the
| worst of the weather. It's great for evaluating whether to
| start a trip during the evening or the next morning. Timestamps
| are built using Google directions so you have about as accurate
| a forecast as you can in 2024.
|
| > I am almost never interested in "30% chance of shower at
| 08:00pm" type of forecast.
|
| I understand this sentiment but that is sorta where medium term
| forecasting is right now.
|
| Android or iOS https://weatherthetrip.com/download
| kbutler wrote:
| We used windy.com earlier this year to choose our location for
| the total eclipse in Texas. Worked out perfectly - great view
| for the eclipse, then the clouds rolled in...
| xd1936 wrote:
| Love love love love this. This would be great for kids. I pitched
| a very similar "weather for kids" visualizer product idea on the
| very first episode of my podcast.
|
| https://spitball.show/@podcast/episodes/1
| jerjerjer wrote:
| From readme:
|
| > Traditional weather stations often display sensor readings as
| raw numerical data. Navigating these dashboards can be
| overwhelming and stressful, as it requires significant effort to
| locate, interpret, and visualize specific parameters effectively.
|
| Simply fascinating. The reverse holds true for me. Numbers
| provide easily identifiable and recognizable references, while
| sample images look incomprehensible to me. Without accompanying
| descriptions, I'd never guess what the author is getting at
| (except in the broadest of strokes). To each their own, of
| course.
| jp57 wrote:
| It's an interesting idea, but some of the image semantics seem
| weirdly wrong. In particular, the sky shouldn't be light at
| night, and the sun shouldn't be high at sunrise.
|
| If you have to learn counterintuitive things like "the appearance
| of the sun anywhere in the sky indicates sunrise", and "nighttime
| is indicated by, well, idk what exactly, but it's not darkness",
| it kind of fails at it's main purpose, I think.
|
| EDIT: I'll add that many weather apps have a left-to-right
| timeline of some sort, and indicate sunrise and sunset with
| intuitive iconography.
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| EDIT2: The Windy.com timeline view shows sky condition,
| day/night, moon phase, temperature, precipitation, and wind speed
| and direction in a nice compact left-to-right timeline. (click
| the summary in the upper left)
| yaj54 wrote:
| It's like a line-scan camera for the weather.
| SebastianKra wrote:
| If you'd like to see this implemented in a practical way, check
| out Weather Strip.
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| It's a master class in information density while also being
| intuitive and readable.
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| https://www.weatherstrip.app/
| anonova wrote:
| Note that this kind of visualization is just the collapsed form
| of a standard forecast graph, e.g.
|
| https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.39&lon=-122...
|
| https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/mountain-view
| DiggyJohnson wrote:
| Dang Mountain View has some enviable conditions...
| lb1lf wrote:
| In a somewhat related vein, the wonderful Ootside[0] website
| gives you the weather with a Scottish twist.
|
| Mostly, the weather around where I live is described as 'Mostly
| shite'.
|
| [0] https://ootsi.de/
| bobabob wrote:
| It looks lovely but it's absolutely incomprehensible beyond
| "maybe it'll rain" and "maybe i'll be sunny". Without the
| explanation of what the symbols meant I'd never guess.
| pilooch wrote:
| Can't wait for the stable diffusion version :)
| qnleigh wrote:
| This is super-fun. Kinda makes me want to do the following: set
| up a camera to take regular photos of a greenspace near my house.
| Record couldcover data and date stamps alongside the images, and
| then then show the most similar image to the current forecast as
| a background, maybe on my laptop. Wouldn't convey as much
| information as this project, but it could be very satisfying.
| bazzargh wrote:
| I noodled with a project a couple of years ago to pick art based
| on the weather https://bazzargh.github.io/weather/
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| put it on 'manual filter' and try setting some of the filters,
| you can see the tagged images it comes up with. I wasn't really
| interested in this being an accurate weather report, I was
| thinking more of using it in a photoframe or as a desktop
| background for mood.
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| the image tags are all in here
| https://github.com/bazzargh/bazzargh.github.io/blob/master/w...
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| and were largely done manually, I started by picking paintings I
| liked, then looking for gaps in the tags and trying to find
| paintings to cover those.
| duck wrote:
| Your page is getting flagged for phishing on Chrome.
| lbotos wrote:
| In FF as well, Just reported it as "not suspicious"
| bazzargh wrote:
| Huh. That's new. I'm guessing it must have been someone who
| read it here, I don't think I ever even posted it anywhere
| else. I'm not sure what they could think it's phishing for;
| there's no links out, no redirection, and nowhere for you to
| enter any personal information; the only thing it does is
| pull images from wikimedia, plus the source code is right
| there for all to see?
|
| If it was anyone here who reported it... mind telling us why?
| lxe wrote:
| Cute, and with small adjustments, I'd be legitimately using this.
| There are just better ways to interpret things:
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| 1. Make the bending trees signify wind direction. Have to get
| creative with north and south, but a tree bent down vs out can
| do, and the bend or size and clustering of trees should signify
| magnitude of the wind.
|
| 2. Put sunrise and sunset as literally sun over the horizon, not
| the sun and moon.
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| 3. Make the night sky shaded differently than day
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| 4. Don't start at "current time" but rather a fixed point, either
| morning or midnight, and specify the "now" via the location of
| the house
| folli wrote:
| All good points, agreed. Except #4, would be cute if there's
| some animal that moves along instead of the house.
|
| And perhaps playing with some kind of isometric perspective
| could help visualize wind directions?
| darrylcodes wrote:
| This is really cool! I would use this daily if it were an app
| leobg wrote:
| These are gorgeous. What a great idea.
| Ajedi32 wrote:
| I've been using a similar concept for my Android wallpaper for a
| while now[1].
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| I love the idea of artwork that actually conveys useful
| information.
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| [1]:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kaka.wallpaper...
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