Category: Weather
Everything filed under Weather.
Rust CLI For Apple's WeatherKit REST API
Apple is in the final stages of shuttering the DarkSky service/API. They've replaced it with WeatherKit , which has both an xOS framework version as well as a REST API. To use either, you need to be a member of the Apple Developer Program…
Introducing {weatherkit}: The Eventual Replacement R Package for {darksky}
My { darksky } package has been around for years, now, and the service that powers it was purchased by Apple before the pandemic. The DarkSky API is slated to be shuttered in December of this year and is being replaced by Apple's…
Track Hurricane Danny (Interactively) with R + leaflet
Danny became the first hurricane of the 2015 Season, so it's a good time to revisit how one might be able to track them with…
NASA GISS’s Annual Global Temperature Anomaly Trends (dplyr/ggplot version)
D Kelly O’Day did a great post on charting NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) temperature anomaly data, but it sticks with base R for data munging & plotting. While there's absolutely nothing wrong with base R operations, I…
Visualizing Historical & Most-likely First Snowfall Dates for U.S. Regions
The impending arrival of the first real snowfall of the year in my part of Maine got me curious about what the most likely "first snow" dates are for my region. The U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) maintains historical daily…
Plot Me Like a Hurricane (a.k.a. animating historical North Atlantic basin tropical storm tracks)
Markus Gessman (@MarkusGesmann) did a beautiful job Visualising the seasonality of Atlantic windstorms using small multiples, which was inspired by both a post by Arthur Charpentier (@freakonometrics) on using Markov spatial processes to…
Seeing the (day)light with R
The arrival of the autumnal equinox foreshadows the reality of longer nights and shorter days here in the northeast US. We can both see that reality and distract ourselves from it at the same time by firing up RStudio (or your favorite…
An Alfred (OS X) Workflow for Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) Data
I've operated a Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) [KMEBERWI7] off-and-on (hardware issues notwithstanding) for as long as I can remember, and I thought it was about time to finally do an Alfred↔PWS mashup. My personal…
Rforecastio 1.3.0 Update
Thanks to a comment suggestion, the Rforecastio package is now up to version 1.3.0 and has a new parameter which lets you specify which time conversion function you want to use. Details are up on…
Rforecastio 1.2.0 Bug-fix Update
Not even going to put an R category on this since I don't want to pollute R-bloggers with this tiny post, but I had to provide the option to let folks specify ssl.verifypeer=FALSE (so I made it a generic option to pass in any CURL…