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SF Bay Area folks, we're getting back to an environment where it might be risky to leave the windows open overnight, since northerly winds are going to arrive soon and bring August Complex Fire towards the Bay Area.
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At least this one is outdoors, so it's probably causing much fewer infections than the indoor ones.
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A North America map for this is at nitter.vloup.ch/Climatologist49/… but I think I've seen a world map somewhere
Ratio of wettest to driest months of the year. Green areas have nearly uniform monthly average precipitation values.
Parts of the US are even weirder for their ratio of rainfall in the wettest month to the driest month (normalized to 30-day months). There's a band running from Louisiana to New Brunswick where the ratio is basically the lowest in the world; rainfall close to equal each month.
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A map showing this is old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comment…
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I also think the description of temperate climates has a regional bias. Interior North America is quite unusual globally in its summer versus winter temperature variation; only interior north Asia (Siberia, central Asia, Mongolia, inland north China, etc.) is comparable.
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That said, there's also disagreement on whether the minimum perceivable increment should be valued as 1, 5, or 10...
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One thing I like about °C is that it's a good match for the minimum perceivable increment. I can tell the difference (maybe not reliably) between a room heated to 19°C versus 20°C. @tabatkins argues that increment should be bigger, but I think °C is about right.
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Forecast verification: pretty good, although I was actually expecting even a bit cleaner than this.
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In general, these HRRR smoke images can be found at:
rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… for the southwest US or rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… for the whole country. The 48 hour long runs are done only every 6 hours; other runs just extend 24 hours.
Both the 12:00 UTC (5:00 PDT) and 18:00 UTC (11:00 PDT) runs of the HRRR smoke make it look like the smoke will clear out of the Bay Area on Monday, bringing non-fire air quality by Monday evening.
near-surface: rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
vertically integ.: rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
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Could just go through en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%… in order. But then the question... on'yomi or kun'yomi?
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And we made it to Tropical Storm Beta. Also, today three names were consumed in a 6-hour interval (Wilfred at the regular 15:00 UTC advisory, Alpha in a special 16:30 UTC advisory, and Beta at the regular 21:00 UTC advisory).
Tropical Storm #Beta Advisory 5: Depression in the Gulf of Mexico Becomes Tropical Storm Beta. go.usa.gov/W3H
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I was thinking about that, but a number of the Hebrew letters are relatively confusable with the Greek letters (e.g., Alpha/Aleph, Beta/Beth, etc.) when spelled out in English.
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