James Wheare

Pecha-kuchor, the smell of rain falling on dry 2000s era startup founders.

An incredible high wind gust was recorded on the Isle of May weather station as storm Éowyn hit #Fife in late January. An insane 98MPH top windspeed was recorded! 😱😱😱

The live dashboard for this station is available on my website's main page: www.fifeweather.co.uk

Love it when we get the alternative camera angle DVD extra from the Aberdour webcam.

Happy to chat!

Where I live we now have got through the 10 weeks of the year with less than 9 hours of daylight and are approaching what I like to call the "rapidly lengthening daylight" period of the year. This #dataviz shows the weekly loss and gain of daylight at 51 degrees north.

Zooming in on these, they seem to be 3d mapping some planes, possibly with lidar? Not sure if they use that data to try to detect a plane shape and scrub it. Might explain the inconsistency if lidar coverage or accuracy varies. No idea.

They’re onto you… also, I do see a fair few planes at Gatwick in my imagery, just not at the gates.

Never mind, it’s inconsistent everywhere. Curious. I did find one Heathrow plane on Google though :)

The Apple Maps satellite provider does this for roads too, but their attempts at airports are a bit… ghostly.

Or they’ve just removed temporary/mobile features by averaging over multiple satellite passes. Avoids having weird artifacts like planes cut in half at tile/frame boundaries. You’ll notice there’s no cars on motorways either.

Looks like that’s been deliberately scrubbed as a clean base for the 3d building renders.

Did he ever make it to Homerton hospital?

Screenshot of a weather dashboard for the peak of Storm Éowyn showing overlapping wind warnings, high rainfall probability and wind forecasts.

Screenshot of a weather dashboard for the peak of Storm Éowyn showing forecasted gale force winds 45mph with 76mph gusts.

Screenshot of a weather dashboard during Storm Éowyn showing 4 met office weather warnings with an amber icon

Screenshot of a weather dashboard for the peak of Storm Éowyn showing a map with overlapping wind warnings and a cyclonic rainfall radar forecast.

Right, time to close all these tabs and go for a wallk... oh wait. (spoilers for another project)

I put a silly amount of work into this, but it was a fun exploration in datavis and storytelling. I could keep tinkering on this forever but I gave myself till then end of the month to call it done. Time to move onto other projects. (PS: looking for work…)

AIS year in review 2024 Stats and interesting ships I saw come sailing in

Boatify wrapped 2024! Stats, maps, timelapses and silly stuff from my AIS receiver and webcam overlooking the Firth of Forth. (recommend viewing on a grown up computer, works on phones but not optimised for them) vessels.marinesightings.com/review/2024/

Lenticular clouds. January 16 2025

Full length on Youtube: youtu.be/2rZ3nUkFZnw

Lenticular clouds at sunset, Kinghorn.

Oh well done. I’m currently struggling to put together a hilariously over engineered visual review of just my own receiver’s 2024 data so I think I’ll pass.

Plans for the ship data?

Perhaps Mossmorran related? I wonder if it got worse in Aberdour. A92 probably not great for PM levels either. That said your previous levels are already low, especially PM2.5.

Happy New Year from Kinghorn! 🎇🥂

Wrote up some notes on the Online Safety Act guidance and how it applies to small websites, because Ofcom's guidance is terrible:

russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/o...

I’d love to see all the hallucinated attempts before they finally got something accurate.

At least you can turn it off and don’t ever get randomly switched over to it.

Border collie on a boulder looking over the snowy moors on a crisp clear day.

Ox Stones

Sunset over snowy fields and a gate.

Snowy Tankersley sunset last night.

I meant how *low… but both apply.

5.5mm in Kinghorn. How long can we go? Most of it only just in November too.

Torbain standing stanes

Makes sense. Hopefully they’ll add gif support soon!