2010-12-01
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Snow blankets Gatwick (although the adjective “thick” seems inadvised, but still). Surprisingly pretty, but no doubt incredibly annoying if you’re actually expecting to get anywhere.
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2010-04-01
No Radar For You
Met Office : Invent - High resolution radar data trial:
Thank you very much for your interest in the high resolution radar data trial which is now completed. You can continue to receive the latest weather radar rainfall data via www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar.
On the day of Tumblr’s radar gags, this feels a little ironic.
2009-10-01
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Snow, directed by Geoffrey Jones, 1963. From the BFI’s archives.
“Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter’s snowfall was melting, the award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail’s dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music.”
Said music is by Daphne Oram, an early British electronic music pioneer, instrumental in founding the Radiophonic Workshop. From the notes to the album Oramics: “The 1963 ‘Snow’ is ingenious, but somehow uncharacteristic. For this, a tape of a Sandy Nelson jazz drumming piece is slowly speeded up according to an accelerando structure.”
Amazing stuff.
2009-09-15
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2009-06-28
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2009-04-27
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Matt Biddulph just linked to Weather Pro approvingly:
best weather forecast app I’ve found for the iphone. contains actual useful 7-day charts for sun and precipitation, animated radar and satellite imagery, and nice icons.
Having had a look at the site, I saw they were taking their weather data from Meteo Group, part of the Press Association. Their weather radar knocks the socks off the Met Office’s version (and they do provide a no-flash alternative).
Anyway, if you’re interested in whether it’s raining right now, or will be in an hour or four, it’s probably a useful thing to have bookmarked.
2009-01-14
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Visualizing Weather Patterns from the Mathematica blog. Not sure it’s worth $2000, but it’s impressive.
