Show HN: Probably the most comprehensive weather API currently available This was posted before but I'm quite pleased to share a major update for https://oikolab.com. We now have available seven decades of hourly weather data starting from 1950 for any location in the world, thanks to the recent publication of ERA5 reanalysis data from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). ERA5 is gap-free, gridded dataset generated using data assimilation method (https://ift.tt/2sZYnWj), similar to NWP models but with the benefit of hindsight. As far as we're aware of, we're the first weather data service provider to have this extensive range of coverage accessible via REST API, where one can quickly query time-series of weather parameters for any location in seconds rather than hours or days from the original source. Here are some stats: Coverage: Global, from 1950 to 10 days ahead Spatial Resolution: 0.25 deg x 0.25 deg (lat x lon) Temporal Resolution: Hourly Weather Parameters: ~30, including longwave/shortwave radiation, wetbulb temperature, windspeed at 100m, etc. (https://ift.tt/37bc4YZ) NetCDF/GRIB Data Size: ~100TB Data Sources: Historical (ERA5) - https://ift.tt/3oGvGKD Forecast (GFS) - https://ift.tt/1eg5Bxm Any feedback or comments would be much appreciated. Thanks! December 12, 2020 at 11:09AM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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