by clintmcmahon | Jul 4, 2022 | Data Viz, Weather
At the beginning of the month I look back at the previous month to see how hot (or cold) the previous month was compared to historical normals. This also gives me a good way of finding if there were any extreme temperature events that happen during the month, like if...
by clintmcmahon | Jun 8, 2022 | Life
I started going to Meetups when I moved to Chicago as a way to meet new people. Before that I didn’t have any experience going to Meetups in Minneapolis. I found going to Meetups was a great way to get out and have fun with total strangers. Even better if...
by clintmcmahon | Jun 2, 2022 | Data Viz, Weather
Meteorological summer started yesterday and it felt a bit colder than normal with a high of 70℉ degrees where the normal high is 75℉. Not a huge difference, but I can feel the cool 50s on my morning bike ride to daycare drop off. The rest of the month looks like...
by clintmcmahon | May 6, 2022 | ASP.NET, C#
Today I had a requirement to calculate someone’s age based on that person’s birthday. It seems like a pretty simple function to write, but I decided to Google around a little bit anyway to see if what other people were doing to calculate age based on...
by clintmcmahon | Apr 21, 2022 | Code, JavaScript, Weather
I’m currently writing an app to display and chart record high and low temperatures for locations around the United States. As I was writing the station selector I realized that I would need to create a list of all weather stations by state. Because of the large...
