95 lines
4.6 KiB
HTML
95 lines
4.6 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta charset="utf-8" />
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
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<title>Thermograph — reading the grades</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
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</head>
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<body>
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<header>
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<div class="brand">
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<span class="logo">▚</span>
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<div>
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<h1>Thermograph · Guide</h1>
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<p class="tag">What the metrics and percentile grades mean</p>
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</div>
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<nav class="view-nav" aria-label="Views">
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<a href="./" data-view="map">Weekly</a>
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<a href="calendar" data-view="calendar">Calendar</a>
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<a href="day" data-view="day">Day</a>
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</nav>
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</div>
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</header>
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<main class="guide">
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<section class="guide-block">
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<h2>How the grades work</h2>
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<p>Every grade is <b>relative to this place's own climate history</b>, not an absolute
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temperature. For each day Thermograph builds a ±7-day seasonal distribution from
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decades of local records, then reports the <b>percentile</b> where the day falls in it.</p>
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<p>So a 60° day can be “Above Normal” in one place or season and
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“Below Normal” in another. That's why the categories read
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“Above/Below Normal”, “High/Low”, and “Near Record” —
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never “hot” or “cold”.</p>
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</section>
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<section class="guide-block">
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<h2>Grade scale — percentile of the local ±7-day history</h2>
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<div class="guide-scale" id="temp-scale"></div>
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</section>
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<section class="guide-block">
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<h2>Rain intensity — percentile among rain days</h2>
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<p class="muted">Precipitation is graded only across days that actually saw rain, so
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“Heavy” means heavy <i>for a rainy day here</i>. Dry days are colored by
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their dry streak instead (below).</p>
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<div class="guide-scale" id="rain-scale"></div>
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</section>
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<section class="guide-block">
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<h2>The metrics</h2>
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<dl class="guide-metrics">
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<dt>High / Low</dt><dd>The day's highest and lowest air temperature (°F).</dd>
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<dt>Feels</dt><dd>Apparent temperature — what the air actually felt like once humidity
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and wind are factored in. Every day has a felt <b>high</b> (heat-index territory) and a
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felt <b>low</b> (wind-chill territory); both are shown in the day tooltip, each graded
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against its own history. The Feels color uses whichever side sits <b>further from your
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comfort temperature</b> — set with the slider on the Calendar page (0–100°F,
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default 65°F) — so sweltering days grade by their felt high and bitter days by
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their felt low.</dd>
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<dt>Humid</dt><dd>Absolute humidity: grams of water vapor per cubic meter of air (g/m³).</dd>
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<dt>Wind</dt><dd>Average sustained wind speed (mph).</dd>
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<dt>Gust</dt><dd>Peak wind gust for the day (mph).</dd>
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<dt>Precip</dt><dd>Total precipitation (inches), graded by intensity among rain days.</dd>
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<dt>Dry streak</dt><dd>Consecutive days since the last measurable rain — the color deepens
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the longer it's been dry, and resets to blue on a rain day.</dd>
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</dl>
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</section>
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<p class="guide-back"><a href="./">← Back to Thermograph</a></p>
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</main>
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<script src="nav.js"></script>
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<script>
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// The scale rows mirror the tiers used across the app (see calendar.js / app.js).
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const TEMP = [
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["rec-cold", "Near Record", "<1"], ["very-cold", "Very Low", "1–10"],
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["cold", "Low", "10–25"], ["cool", "Below Normal", "25–40"],
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["normal", "Normal", "40–60"], ["warm", "Above Normal", "60–75"],
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["hot", "High", "75–90"], ["very-hot", "Very High", "90–99"],
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["rec-hot", "Near Record", ">99"],
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];
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const RAIN = [
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["wet-1", "Trace", "<1"], ["wet-2", "Very Light", "1–10"], ["wet-3", "Light", "10–25"],
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["wet-4", "Light–Mod", "25–40"], ["wet-5", "Moderate", "40–60"], ["wet-6", "Mod–Heavy", "60–75"],
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["wet-7", "Heavy", "75–90"], ["wet-8", "Very Heavy", "90–99"], ["wet-9", "Extreme", ">99"],
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];
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const row = ([cls, label, range]) =>
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`<div class="guide-seg"><span class="guide-sw" style="background:var(--${cls})"></span>` +
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`<span class="guide-lbl">${label}</span><span class="guide-rng">${range}</span></div>`;
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document.getElementById("temp-scale").innerHTML = TEMP.map(row).join("");
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document.getElementById("rain-scale").innerHTML = RAIN.map(row).join("");
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</script>
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</body>
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</html>
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