Cameron Beccario
Creator earth.nullschool.net and nullschool.app
Born at 331 ppm.
- I'm excited to announce the official Nullschool app is here! earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well. And, like the website: no ads! Links below ⬇️
- iOS
- Android
- This newsletter post has more details. Please give the app a try and let me know what you think. Always happy to get feedback! 🌍🌎🌏
- People in AI portraits look like they've joined the Pluribus hive.
- Only thing efficient about this administration is how quickly they torched the country's reputation.
- Time lapse animation of development of the Pacific Northwest bomb cyclone. Clearly shows interaction between jet stream (250 hPa) and low pressure systems (visible as total cloud water). Around 11/20 03:00Z the animation transitions to forecast data. Data: GFS earth.nullschool.net#2024/11/20/0...
- Not sure if bsky is showing a crisp, high-res video for you all. Here's the 4K version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbRh...
- Folks: @peterbrannen.bsky.social's first book, The Ends of the World, was so good! It left me with an appreciation of the deep history of life on Earth and the titanic catastrophes that nearly extinguished it (multiple times). Can't wait for his next book.
- Chance of visible aurora, right now, OVATION model.
- Published a newsletter post explaining why weather sites/apps that rely on gridded model data (including my own) do not show max hurricane wind speeds correctly.
- SST anomaly updates are unavailable on earth.nullschool.net. The updates come from NOAA NCEI, located in Asheville, NC. They are offline due to Hurricane Helene. Sincerely hoping everyone over there is OK. earth.nullschool.net#current/ocea...
- Requests to NCEP's ftpprd webserver have been timing out for the past 11 hours. Can't download new GFS runs.
- ✨ New features launched on earth.nullschool.net: wet bulb temp and dew point. 🌡️ Thought it would be easy, but found myself down a rabbit hole of atmospheric thermodynamics. Posted an explainer here: news.nullschool.net/p/new-features-wet-bulb-and-dew-point-temperatures
- Wet bulb temp is one measure of heat stress. If it gets too close to body temp, no amount of sweat or air flow will help. We develop heat stroke, then die. A widely accepted limit of survivability is 35 °C (95 °F). Thankfully, it rarely gets this high on Earth… for now.
- But wet bulb temp need not get that high. As it passes 28 °C (82 °F), significant heat stress starts to build up. The worry is climate change will increase the chance of wet bulb temps reaching lethal levels.
- Note that low values do not mean conditions are safe. Very high dry bulb temps with low humidity, conditions that cause wet bulb to be low, can still be dangerous.
- How lazy is this. A stock photo of beachgoers to accompany an article on "dangerous heat". I'm not a professional journalist and even I wouldn't do this.
- I set up a newsletter for earth.nullschool.net to announce new features, answer common questions, provide behind-the-scenes details, etc. It's an experiment! First post covers some issues I ran into upgrading to the OSCAR v2 ocean currents model. nullschool.beehiiv.com/p/welcome-pl...
- The second post discusses the aurora, coral reef heat stress, and how to switch units of measurement. (Received a lot of feedback about that last one.) nullschool.beehiiv.com/p/aurorae-co...
- I'm not a writer! Subscribe at your own risk.
- The Japan Gas Association is marketing a product called e-methane (on commuter trains, no less). It's just synthetic methane produced with hydrogen sourced from fossil fuels. Their banner image is... unintentionally ironic? It's North America, horizontally flipped (??), with severe desertification.
- This is the commercial they show on the trains. It's a possible desertized future where people complain it'll get super hot if nothing is done about CO2. The guy in a business suit says e-methane is a futuristic fuel made from recycled CO2. Then they dance.
- earth.nullschool.net was launched 10 years ago today! 🎉 At the time, I couldn’t have imagined the longevity and impact this project would have. To all the users and fans over the years: thank you. And with this anniversary, an announcement:
- After 9.5 years, I have recently left my job at Indeed. It truly was a privilege to manage several teams of wonderful, talented engineers who I already miss, united in the mission to help people get jobs. Good luck to all my colleagues as we part ways. Instead…
- I’ve decided to dedicate myself full time to earth.nullschool.net. There is much work to do! In particular, I’m going to explore ways for the site to help fight climate change. More on this in the near future. It’s been an amazing 10 years. Here’s hoping for 10 more. 🎉
