Spectacular. Dancers from Wayne McGregor | Random Dance inhabited rAndom International’s acclaimed Rain Room installation in the Barbican’s Curve gallery, performing continuously evolving interventions in the Rain, with a score by contemporary composer Max Richter.
How people’s feelings about the weather, scrobbled from social media data, compares to the actual weather – lovely project by Dutch design studio CLEVER*FRANKE. Full PDF here.
The best weather-related visualization since Nathalie Miebach’s musical sculptures.
Also see Jonathan Harris’s We Feel Fine project, visualizing feelings on the social web.
We’ve got a case of the foggy Fridays. You?
Oldweather.org is where you can help improve reconstructions of past weather and climate across the world by finding and recording historical weather observations in handwritten Royal Navy ship logs.
In this video, project scientists explain how they use old weather data to reconstruct weather in the past.
NSKYC: The average color of the New York sky, updated every 5 minutes.
3D model of Joplin tornado debris
Not long ago, we showed you some fresh imagery from Joplin, MO, after they were hit by that devastating tornado.
Steve Ansari from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) recently sent us an amazing file that shows debris from the tornado in a 3D model!
(via sunfoundation)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) publishes a daily list of locations for tornado, hail and wind news reports. Many of these are preliminary – they don’t include full details of damage, injuries and fatalities, but they give some sense of the scale of events.
The interactive map below plots out the 670 storm reports from yesterday (April 27, 2011). This includes 164 Tornado reports shown in red, and 180 hail storms (green). Blue markers indicate high winds.
(via maptd)
