An attempt to create the highest resolution real-time map of global temperature

Celsius please. But besides that: Very nice, very clear and way better than supid sun and cloud icons with temperatures next to them over some vague areas.

I am proud of forecast.io for sticking with a &#x27;normal&#x27; color palette here, rather than the non-standard purples they have chosen for radar; as a meteorologist the purple radar hurts my brain, but this map is completely cool.<p>Also there are definitely some quality control issues with the RTMA data, so you can bump into the garbage-in-garbage-out issue with it, but overall, this is a very nice start to something that could ultimately be quite useful.

This is pretty impressive, i wonder what the update interval and source is.<p><a href="http://www.mapbox.com/labs/forecast/temperature/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mapbox.com&#x2F;labs&#x2F;forecast&#x2F;temperature&#x2F;</a> I really like the interface, even the zoom buttons could be removed or hidden as you can scrool-zoom.<p>Make the temperature in Celsius please!<p>EDIT: There seem to be a problem with the algorithms, the largest zoom displays colder temperatures( look at the temperature map ).<p>Largest zoom,<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/GVt3iSy.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;GVt3iSy.jpg</a><p>Normal zoom, picture was resized by me<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/t1GgrOM.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;t1GgrOM.jpg</a>

This isn&#x27;t a map. This is a simulation. You made a simulation, and are outputting the results.<p>This teaches you nothing whatsoever except that your model has pretty colors.<p>Next thing someone is going to take these results, use them as input data for a new model, then send the results of that new model back as data for the first.

Hmm, there are some superlatives (&quot;highest resolution&quot;) in here I&#x27;m not sure about. Lots of groups create maps like this for modeling purposes. One for sea surface temperature is:<p><a href="http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov/SST/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;SST&#x2F;</a><p>This is a blended product (i.e., multi-instrument, and gaps filled) with 1km resolution. There is also a 1km MODIS land surface temperature data product:<p><a href="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/dataproducts.php?MOD_NUMBER=11" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;modis.gsfc.nasa.gov&#x2F;data&#x2F;dataprod&#x2F;dataproducts.php?MO...</a><p>Neither of these is real-time (more like daily).

Just for the fun of it, for those of you in the bay area, here&#x27;s a surface temperature <i>forecast</i> for today, 16:00 PST. It is from the forecast site that I&#x27;ve been maintaining for some time now - <a href="http://www.norcalsoaring.org/BLIP/BYRON/index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.norcalsoaring.org&#x2F;BLIP&#x2F;BYRON&#x2F;index.html</a><p><a href="http://raspbucket.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/BYRON/FCST/sfctemp.curr.1600lst.d2.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;raspbucket.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com&#x2F;BYRON&#x2F;F...</a><p>(Based on 3km&#x2F;750m WRF model run two times a day based on the NCEP data. )

I wonder if they are aware of the super high resolution weather satellites that NOAA is putting up into orbit and will come on line, I believe, end of this year. I was talking to a high level NOAA official on the technical side and he was saying that it will essentially provide a remarkable, i.e., revolutionary increase in prediction accuracy and be able to provide on the ground climate level predictions.

Nice work!<p>There seems to be a typo in the Stats (my emphasis):<p>&gt;Pixels: 16-bit unsigned ints, representing &quot;<i>deci</i>-kelvin&quot; (i.e., divide by <i>100</i> to get the temperature in Kelvin).<p>It should either be centikelvin or divide by 10.<p>On another note: It would be cool if you could hover over a certain area to see its temperature.

Please use Celsius or at least show both.

I don&#x27;t get where the data is coming from. A lot of it must be interpolated.

Amazing stuff! It&#x27;s things like this that makes me proud to be a developer.<p>This leaves me wondering, how does one go about designing such a system? Are you planning on doing a technical write up soon?

I didn&#x27;t realize how hot eastern china was!

In lowest zoom level, if you scroll the map, it snaps back to the original center after scrolling fades out.

It&#x27;s a cool project, but...<p>&gt;&gt;It regenerates every hour, providing a constantly updating snapshot of air temperature around the globe.<p>Once per hour is not &quot;real-time.&quot; It&#x27;s &quot;once per hour.&quot;

very cool