Archive for May, 2010
Weather data #3: Wind direction through May 2009
Thanks once again to the impressive archival of Romney Marsh Weather, here’s a third plot of wind direction data: this time, on a 5-minutely basis, through the entirety of May 2009.
All of these plots have been created with the invaluable R toolkit, with ggplot2 and circstats for polar plots.
Weather data #2: Wind direction
As a followup to our earlier post on weather data from Romney Marsh, here’s a quick circle plot of the wind direction over the same time period (30 April – 6 May 2010).
It seems to tally pretty closely with the Met Office commentary on southern wind patterns: prevailing south-westerlies from the passing Atlantic depressions, alongside seasonal winds from the north-east due to high pressure over Scandinavia.
Romney Marsh Wind Direction, w/e 6 May 2010.
Data: Romney Marsh Weather
Weather data
In the process of analysing the local weather data to help us anticipate the likely conditions for Variable 4, we have been graphing and visualisating historical data. With the help of statistical techniques such as cluster analysis, this is helping us gain some understanding of how weather conditions are distributed and correlated.
Below are box plots of some of the more prominent conditions, recorded over the past 7 days. These give us some idea of the probable variance of each criterion during a 24-hour period.
Many thanks to Dave at Romney Marsh Weather for the data.
minor crisis after studiospares reveal that our cable order would not arrive till 2wks after the event. new supplier now sourced. phew.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
somehow had failed to anticipate the weight of 1km of speaker cable: just shy of 100kg…
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
SoundFjord is London’s first gallery dedicated to sound art, opening later this year… http://www.soundfjord.org.uk/
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
if weather data from may 2009 is anything to go off, we should expect temps from 2°C to 32°C… http://www.thejonesgang.co.uk/May2009.htm
Tuesday, 4 May 2010Images of Dungeness: Fishing and flotsam
As well as its wildlife, the Dungeness promontory gives clear indicators of the local livelihoods: the fishing industry, as marked by the scores of nets, rope and sacks scattered across the shingle.
