A time lapse study of the sky for a year

So not only is this incredibly cool to watch, but it illustrates how the lenght of the day and weather changes throughout the year. I could see this type of project being replicated for various biomes and used in student materials. Brilliant idea!<p>Also, it was nice to learn about MobyGratis.com. I've always like Moby's music, but the fact that he makes his music available like this for non-commercial use is just awesome.

While watching I was thinking that this would be a much more informative graphic way to show someone what the weather was like in a particular location. I've always looked at those average temperature or precipitation graphs when deciding when to make a trip somewhere far away. If you could visualize every day of the year on a grid like this your brain would just see the "best" time to visit based on what you're looking for.

A compelling "small multiples" [1] view of weather. The astronomer in me wishes the sequence started with the winter solstice (Dec. 21), though!<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_multiple" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_multiple</a>

It's amazing what you can learn from visualizing data in unexpected ways. I love how putting each video in a grid next to other videos teaches you so much more the day cycle than watching a single video by itself. It's pretty amazing.

The really cool part for me was seeing a cloudy day and then right next to it a day full of clouds being blown apart.<p>Also really interesting that cloudy days generally seem to be cloudy all day.

This is really neat. I got it up on a 27" iMac and let it play. So great. Thanks for sharing.

go to 1:54 top right quarter, there are some weird people shadows appearing.

Wow it's awfully sunny in San Francisco.<p>A similar time-lapse video from Finland shows the difference between one day in summer to a day in winter:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTjyt-6hJQw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTjyt-6hJQw</a>