Rant; Winter 2013/14

[Freed Roger]

For my outdoor plans, normally I just look at a few days expected hi/low temp trend - but this winter its the hourly temp forecasts (and winds)

i.e. as of now Sunday is forecasted at high of 50, lo of 10.

Have you checked out Weather Underground's new graph based forecasts? Neat, I think.

http://preview.wunderground.com/cgi-bin ... uery=63112

That's much better.

[JL21]

For my outdoor plans, normally I just look at a few days expected hi/low temp trend - but this winter its the hourly temp forecasts (and winds)

i.e. as of now Sunday is forecasted at high of 50, lo of 10.

Have you checked out Weather Underground's new graph based forecasts? Neat, I think.

http://preview.wunderground.com/cgi-bin ... uery=63112

That's an almost perfect execution of data visualization.

[jim]

I wished I wouldn't have checked that and saw that St. Louis will be at 45 Sunday. Snow in the forecast. Also I see you have more sunny days in that forecast than we get the entire year.

It's still [expletive] snowing. Shoveled again. Relentless.

[JL21]

It's been in the 40s and 50s (and definitely over 30) almost this entire month other than the 2-3 days around the big snow, and then yesterday.

[planet planet]

It's been in the 40s and 50s (and definitely over 30) almost this entire month other than the 2-3 days around the big snow, and then yesterday.

JL, you're totally lying (Dec. was warm). Also, Jim cherry picked one day (Sun. at 45 degrees) bookended by crap. It's not predicted to be above freezing for the whole week after Sunday. It just "feels" like this is one of the coldest, if not the coldest, since I moved to STL in 2001.

[Gashouse]

I'd much rather have a super snowy winter than the [expletive] bitter cold we've had so much this winter. Today is the third day this month schools have been closed due to cold.

[lukethedrifter]

For my outdoor plans, normally I just look at a few days expected hi/low temp trend - but this winter its the hourly temp forecasts (and winds)

i.e. as of now Sunday is forecasted at high of 50, lo of 10.

Have you checked out Weather Underground's new graph based forecasts? Neat, I think.

http://preview.wunderground.com/cgi-bin ... uery=63112

That's an almost perfect execution of data visualization.

I'd like to see them add color to the line reflecting the temp but otherwise agree.

[jim]

I'd much rather have a super snowy winter than the [expletive] bitter cold we've had so much this winter. Today is the third day this month schools have been closed due to cold.

We've had both.

[heyzeus]

Sleeting right now in Austin, Tx. In celebration, there's a 23 car pileup on the highway I take to work right now.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Posted in the XKCD thread too, but: