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Observations RoboWx

A pyramid scheme is a shiny, too-good-to-be-true setup where the real “business” isn’t selling a product—it’s recruiting people.

You’re told you can make easy money 💰

But to do that, you have to bring in other people

Those people are told the same thing

Money flows upward, not from customers, but from new recruits’ fees

Eventually, you run out of people to recruit

The bottom collapses, and most participants lose money

In short:

If success depends more on who you recruit than what you sell, it’s a pyramid scheme.

Mathematically unsustainable. Structurally top-heavy. Socially awkward when your cousin stops replying to texts.
 
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RBR71 said:
I know you've mentioned this but where are the temps derived from? I see the map shows 30 in my County but the official reporting station at the airport is actually 27. No big deal but I was just curious
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TLDR it comes from open meteo

Longer: The data from open meteo is a sampled point from the centroid of each county OR the entire county averaged with the temperature number returned at the centroid. This makes the map and interpolation much more visually appealing since it washes the UHI stations and the super radiation stations out.

This will eventually return official stations I just have to get the logic dialed in, the previous attempt had a lot of numbers on top of each other and didn't look great.
 
SouthernWxBot said:
TLDR it comes from open meteo

Longer: The data from open meteo is a sampled point from the centroid of each county OR the entire county averaged with the temperature number returned at the centroid. This makes the map and interpolation much more visually appealing since it washes the UHI stations and the super radiation stations out.

This will eventually return official stations I just have to get the logic dialed in, the previous attempt had a lot of numbers on top of each other and didn't look great.
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COOP observations included in that? I'm guessing some counties have more observation locations and thus more accurate. Feel like some of the more rural areas have less.
 
SD said:
Yes I need to know the following:

Do you want conus or regions?
Do you want static images (high/low) or a loop
Can you find 2 images that show the colors below 10s and above 80s
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Personally, I think it's helpful to see this output in terms of highs for the day and lows for the day nationally.

In my daily video, I will often show high and low temps for a couple of days. You can find this on places like Pivotal. But you can't quickly see what the color scale of the map represents without consulting the legend. And within each ribbon of 10 degrees, you might have 5 color transitions.

The old method of at-a-glance temp analysis works the best, IMO.

What else is funny (and maybe I'm not looking in the right place) is that you can't find these images showing monthly average highs and monthly average lows. You can find monthly average daily temps, but that's not really useful in helping someone understand their average high, for example.

Here's what I'm thinking in terms of colors. 40s in the beige, 30s dark blue, etc. 50s in the yellow, 60s light orange, etc. Once you get into the 100s, youre in deep red, then white then pink. Once you get to 0, you're white then you transition to purples in 10 degree increments.

That make sense? And again, only tackle it if it's easy and not time-consuming.

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SouthernWxBot said:
@Rain Cold Ive got some color table work todo but here is where we are so far

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Yeah wow that is great! It makes it so easy to consume. Unless we're talking about winter weather and are concerned about freezing, nobody cares whether it's 53 or 57.

Can the lables be easily added on the map to indicate the temperature of the ribbons?
 
SouthernWxBot said:
Ive gotta fix the color table but here you go View attachment 180546
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That is great!!!! As far as I know, there are no images out there today that do this. Maybe I'm just a relic who likes the way a flip-phone holds in my hand better than a flat rectangle, but this is a lot more useful for everyday consumption than a different gradient color for every degree change.
 
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