Lab
Side projects that came out of building the app. Mostly single-purpose tools for places I keep an eye on, built because I wanted them to exist.
01Nitinaht Lake WindA seven-day thermal wind forecast for Nitinaht Lake on Vancouver Island, built from the coast-to-interior pressure gradient instead of a generic point forecast. For the kiting season.02Skaha Lake WindKaleden norths and Sudbury souths on one lake forecast. The morning thermal is fitted to the valley pressure gradient; the afternoon south is screened for whether it can actually penetrate up from Osoyoos.03Apex Mountain TimelapsesLive webcam timelapses from Apex Mountain in BC. Watch the day compress into a few seconds and see what the hill actually did.04Bald Range FireThe wildfire above Summerland and Peachland, drawn the way the fire agencies draw it, with satellite hotspots over the flown perimeter. Then replayed from the hour it started, which is the one thing a live fire map never lets you do.05SpotDrop a pin anywhere on earth and read any weather model that reaches it. HRDPS, HRRR, ECMWF, ICON, GFS and a dozen more, raw and unblended, one model at a time.06Okanagan TimelapsesLive webcam timelapses from up and down the Okanagan, grouped by town and led by whichever one you're closest to. The valley's inversions, lake fog and smoke, replayed a day at a time.07El Niño TrackerNOAA's live ENSO status, the weekly Niño 3.4 reading and the seasonal outlook, distilled into one view of what the Pacific is doing and where it may be headed.08Sinlahekin FireThe fire south of Osoyoos that flared on 26 August and put smoke over Penticton, on the American feeds rather than the Canadian ones. Replayed from the day before it ran, with the distance from its leading edge to the border.