by clintmcmahon | Sep 20, 2022 | Code, Data Viz, JavaScript, React, Weather
In this post I show a React Highcharts example to demostrate how I’m using Highcharts with React in my data visualization projects. Assuming you are starting from scratch I’ll go from start to end. If you already have an app created then you can skip the...
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 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 | 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...
by clintmcmahon | Dec 31, 2021 | Code, Weather
In the last post, Charting historical record high temperatures: Part 1, I wrote a plan and light technical specification to outline a project to chart record high and low temperatures in a dashboard for a given location as well as other record breaking weather events....
by clintmcmahon | Dec 6, 2021 | Code, JavaScript, Weather
I’m going to create a website where users can get a quick look at historical record high temperatures throughout the United States along with what the average temperature is for any given date within the year. Users will select a location and date to return a...