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* SEO: generate curated city set for crawlable climate pages
gen_cities.py reuses the GeoNames index places.py already parses to select the top
~500 metros by population, assigns each a stable URL-safe slug (dropping admin1 when
it repeats the city name), and writes committed backend/cities.json. cities.py loads
it lazily with slug lookup, all_slugs(), display_name(), and by_country() grouping
for the upcoming hub + sitemap.
* SEO: rendering core, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and metadata hygiene
- content.py: Jinja2 environment + HTML responder (ETag/304), dynamic /robots.txt
(disallows /api and /alerts, points at the sitemap) and /sitemap.xml (enumerates
the home/static pages plus every city, month, and records URL from cities.py).
Registered on the app before the StaticFiles mount so the routes win.
- templates/base.html.j2: shared layout with unique title/description, self-
referential canonical, Open Graph, favicon/manifest, header nav (adds a Climate
link) and a footer link graph.
- Give each existing page a unique <meta description> (were 5x identical) and a
self-referential <link rel=canonical>; add WebApplication JSON-LD to the home page.
- Pin jinja2.
* SEO: server-rendered per-city climate page (/climate/{slug})
The keystone crawlable page: for a city it snaps to the grid cell, loads the
archive (fetching once if missing, self-healing), and renders as real HTML — a
'how today compares' block (grade + percentile per metric from grade_day, tinted
by tier), a monthly normals table (climatology at each month's 15th, shown in °F
and °C), all-time records (new grading.all_time_records helper), a breadcrumb,
Dataset+Place+BreadcrumbList JSON-LD, self-referential canonical, and links into
the interactive tool + month/records pages. Content-page CSS added to style.css
(renamed the table class to avoid colliding with the app's .normals flex row).
* SEO: month (/climate/{slug}/{month}) and records (/climate/{slug}/records) pages
Month pages render the exact-month long-tail ('average weather in {city} in
{month}') with that month's average high/low, typical p10-p90 range, month-specific
records, and prev/next month links. Records pages show all-time record highs/lows
per metric with dates (grading.all_time_records). Shared _resolve_city helper; the
literal /records route is registered before the {month} param and month names are
validated (unknown month -> 404).
* SEO: climate hub, weather glossary, and about/methodology pages
- /climate: crawlable directory of all ~500 cities grouped by country — the
internal-link graph that lets search engines discover every city page.
- /glossary + /glossary/{term}: plain-language definitions (climate normal,
percentile, temperature anomaly, feels-like, heat index, wind chill, humidity,
reanalysis) with DefinedTerm JSON-LD and cross-links into the tool.
- /about: methodology page (ERA5 data source, 45-year baseline, +/-7-day window,
percentile grading) for E-E-A-T. All linked from the shared footer.
* SEO: archive warmer, content-page tests, and deploy docs
- warm_cities.py: paced, idempotent offline warmer that pre-fetches each city
cell's archive so /climate pages serve from cache and a crawl can't burst the
archive quota (pages self-heal if hit before warming).
- tests/test_content.py: city-set slug uniqueness/lookup, robots.txt, sitemap
enumerating city/month/records URLs, and that a rendered city page carries the
stats + canonical + Dataset JSON-LD in the HTML; plus month/records/hub/glossary/
about routing and 404s.
- DEPLOY.md: document the content pages, the warm step, and submitting the sitemap.
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<!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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<meta name="description" content="How Thermograph grades weather: percentiles of a location's own ±7-day seasonal history, the scale from Below Normal to Near Record, and what every metric means." />
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<meta name="theme-color" content="#f0803c" />
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<!-- Link previews (Discord, Slack, iMessage…). The server fills the og:url /
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og:image origins in from this request's scheme://host + base path —
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crawlers need absolute URLs and don't run JS. -->
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<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
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<meta property="og:site_name" content="Thermograph" />
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<meta property="og:title" content="Thermograph — reading the grades" />
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<meta property="og:description" content="How Thermograph grades weather: percentiles of a location's own ±7-day seasonal history, the scale from Below Normal to Near Record, and what every metric means." />
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<meta property="og:url" content="__ORIGIN__/legend" />
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<meta property="og:image" content="__ORIGIN__/logo.png" />
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<meta property="og:image:width" content="512" />
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<meta property="og:image:height" content="512" />
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<meta property="og:image:alt" content="Thermograph logo" />
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<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />
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<link rel="canonical" href="__ORIGIN__/legend" />
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<link rel="icon" href="logo.svg" type="image/svg+xml" />
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<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="logo.png" />
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<link rel="manifest" href="manifest.webmanifest" />
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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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<a href="compare" data-view="compare">Compare</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, taking whichever apparent extreme (heat-index high or
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wind-chill low) sits further from a temperate baseline, graded against its own history.</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 type="module">
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import "./nav.js"; // header view-links follow the last location
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import "./units.js"; // the °F/°C toggle
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import "./account.js"; // header sign-in entry + notification bell
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// The scale rows come from the shared tier tables, so this guide can't
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// drift from what the app actually shows.
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import { SCALE_TEMP, SCALE_RAIN } from "./shared.js";
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const row = ({ c, label, range }) =>
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`<div class="guide-seg"><span class="guide-sw" style="background:var(--${c})"></span>` +
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`<span class="guide-lbl">${label}</span><span class="guide-rng">${range}</span></div>`;
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document.getElementById("temp-scale").innerHTML = SCALE_TEMP.map(row).join("");
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document.getElementById("rain-scale").innerHTML = SCALE_RAIN.map(row).join("");
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</script>
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</body>
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</html>
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