The pen follows storm energy. Every line in the log drops it by the wind of its status, and it climbs back as the energy fades, by half every 4 hours. A system clearing lifts it for a day or so.
Weather map
Every project as a station plot, its cloud, wind, weather, and pressure from its status. Isobars run every 4 hPa; 2 lows and 9 highs today, every low trailing a cold front and a warm one. The streaks are the wind that pressure makes: along the isobars, faster where they crowd, turning in toward the lows. Fresh reports plot in the west and drift east as they age, as weather does.How to read a station plot
WarmCold tops
An infrared view, coloured the way forecasters enhance one: grey for low cloud, then blue, green, yellow, and red as cloud tops climb and cool. Each project is a cloud mass at its place on the surface analysis, as big and as cold as its status; tropical storms and hurricanes turn, and a project in clear high pressure shows no cloud at all.
Radar
Each echo is an active system. The newer its last report, the nearer the centre: the rings mark 6 hours, a day, a week, and three weeks. Colors run from green for drizzle to magenta for a hurricane.
17 in the last 7 days.
Last strike: The Town Atlas, 13.11 at 10:37.
Every thunderstorm, tropical storm, hurricane, tornado, or hail report is a strike, marked at the Swiss time it was logged: bright for the last 24 hours, faint for the six days before.
Wind rose /30 days/
1–5
6–12
13–20
21–33
34–63
64+
kt
Prevailing wind: southwest, mostly from drizzle reports. Each petal points where reports' winds came from, longer the more often, banded by strength. Calm and variable winds sit in the middle.
Hygrometer
Worked out the way meteorologists do, from the temperature and dew point: 9 active systems and 24 cleared. As many have cleared as are active, so the air is saturated. Tap the glass, as you would a barometer.
Season energy /November/
Every line adds its status's wind squared, the way forecasters rank a hurricane season by its accumulated cyclone energy. November so far against October's pace: below normal. The notch marks all of October. Stormiest this month: odd nook.
Sunshine /13.11/
A Campbell–Stokes recorder: the glass ball burns a trace on its card wherever the station's own sky let the sun through, and in patches when it was partly cloudy. Drizzle, storms, and a low sun leave it blank. The sun is Bern's, rising at 07:31 and setting at 16:58, the red marks. The card changes with the season, as a real one does.
Forecast discussion
.SYNOPSIS... A new domain has formed over the workshop and is intensifying quickly. Model guidance agrees on a weather theme and disagrees on nearly everything else.
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.NEAR TERM... Pages are now built straight from the observation log. Expect frequent changes as the rest of the site comes ashore.
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.LONG TERM... Confidence is rising. Maintenance cost remains the deciding variable, and every update is now a single line.
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