Color and Temperature: Perception is everything, Al Gore and Bill Nye FAIL at doing a simple CO2 experiment, List of excuses for ‘The Pause’ in global warming, Climate Change Will Increase the Number and Severity of Tornadoes. Weather Channel: Both Intelliweather and NOAA approach this the best. I stopped at an airport just north of Daytona one February (many miles north of Miami) and had lunch with a friend of mine who had taken a job there as airport operations manager only a year before. I looked on Pinterest at “Temperature Afghans” and chose the colors provided using Vanna White Lions Brand yarn because it was on sale 2/$6 versus Bernat yarn. Note how the you can watch the cooldowns and warmups. Speaking of cooler and graphs. REPLY: High or low forecast maps, no current temps, been there done that. 4 Parts: Steps. If you’re going to use a fixed scale, NOAA uses the best one – they almost certainly look at historical ranges for the day of publication and use that for their overall color scheme. Don’t worry about what they call you.” – Andrew Breitbart | read more, “…the world’s most viewed climate website” Grade C In fact as a quick look at “weather in the US, today”, Itelliweather is the best. Unisys: Let me put it another way, there are only three primary colors. http://www.intelliweather.net/imagery/intelliweather/templine_nat_640x480_img.htm, http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weathermaps/, http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dataphod1/work/HHP/NEW/2008178casst.png, http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dataphod1/work/HHP/NEW/2006178casst.png, http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/climo&hot.html, http://www.findlocalweather.com/weather_maps/temperature_north_america.html, http://www.john-daly.com/USGCRP/index.htm, http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dataphod1/work/HHP/NEW/2008178ca.jpg, http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dataphod1/work/HHP/NEW/2006178ca.jpg, http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dataphod1/work/HHP/NEW/2006178at.jpg, http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dataphod1/work/HHP/NEW/2007178at.jpg, http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dataphod1/work/HHP/NEW/2008178at.jpg, http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3169#comment-266801, http://www.john-daly.com/USGCRP/USGCRP_Animate.gif. Violet -> Red -> Orange -> Yellow -> Green -> Blue) that I could just ‘plugin’ and use. As far as I know they were among the first for a colour printed national paper with a weather temp map in every issue. 4. Needless to say, I didn’t think 75F was “cold.” S’all relative I suppose. If I had to critique your colors I would only broaden the green range somewhat so that it covered most of the “comfortable” zone of temp ranges. REPLY: Thanks but save it for when it really matters. When your range is X-Z, not so much. AccuWeather: Visually, I like the full range of colors we get with Intelliweather’s. I) SUMMARY What a bunch of weasels. Change the weather view from Fahrenheit to Celsius. 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I don’t think it’s deliberate, but more of a reflection of culture and what they consider normal. Coloring the Models: Climate Change through Color Change « Watts Up With That? The IntelliWeather map uses a sliding scale of color based on the max and min temps presented in the data. (optional) Hide columns F:G, so the color scale is not visible. Its probably the one that I would use if I was setting up a automated scheme. Of course, we could talk about what the “actual” temperature really is, but that would lead us back to the surface stations project, right? I feel thirsty all of a sudden! Intelliweather and NOAA This was done for Winter, Spring, and now Summer. Anthony, your chart, while not as detailed as NOAA’s, looks to have the color band where it ought to be. To figure out where in that 160 point range we need to be, we can divide the current temperature by the upper bound of 100℉ which will give us the exact percentage we need to move in … http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dataphod1/work/HHP/NEW/2006178at.jpg A map should give the reader ata glance the most informative means of assessing data. Some of them took me to today’s map, which immediately went blank. I can assure you I will not feel over heated.) The outside temperature was 75F. Hence @ accuweather it’s all red (season), at yours it appears to be each other and TWC and the rest seasonal. 5600k. Do the colours mean anything? I never thought that anyone could “spin” the weather. For example the color pallet is inconsistent. I like so definitely think this one merits a thread of its own, Rev! When I see maps that do not even represent the coast, valley, and mountain range (~200 miles apart), I think “useless.” So… That’s the most sensible approach since 60 degrF in Anchorage or Miami feels the same (well, except to Miamians, who start dying when temperatures dip into the 40’s). Recently I had some of my readers comment that they thought that The Weather Channel and USA Today (which uses TWC graphics) temperature maps seemed to look “hotter”. Hourly Weather Stations, Rapid ice retreat during last deglaciation parallels current melt rates, Polar bear sea ice habitat highs and lows in early February, FP: China’s Belt and Road is a “Silk Road with Green Energy”. When watching television, I know the date, and know I’m thinking “in the US”, and I automatically calibrate for the season. The Unisys map is just plain backwards: darker colors for warmer weather? Notionally, I think NOAA’s is the most “accurate,” i.e., in it we do not get to dark blue — which for me represents “cold” — until temperature is in the 40’s and 50’s, whereas with Intelliweather we’ve got Winnipeg dark blue at 70. Unysis, then followed by AccuWeather and Weather Underground. You NEED to look at Kenneths work on CRN1-5. IMO the NOAA-NWS is the best of the bunch, a good combination of regional detail and readability. Most boring map: I’ve been monitoring O’Hare and Palwaukee fields for several months using the Predator for temp info from those two sources and three electronic thermometers for local measurements.