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It's so randomly weird that a bunch of these are in Utah and I have personally visited them, including one in my neighborhood last week! Some days the Internet is so....local.

As a Meteorologist, I love this! There is one little thing to be aware of with using Purple Air for temperatures, though, as their primary purpose is AQI not temp, all temp data comes with this disclaimer. That said, everything is still at lease directionally accurate.

"Temperature, estimated using a formula temp = 1.0227 * raw_temp_f - 9.3755 developed by Lance Wallace to account for heat generated by the WiFi module and other electronics in a PurpleAir sensor. This will not be accurate for all situations. More information can be found in Lance Wallace's notes."

While I, as a Meteorologist and formerly involved in the TV business, I agree with you on using visuals entirely to overstate this, the fact that the field in the dome was set up before the storm to house thousands of electrical lineman and relief workers expected after the storm, says that the roof coming off was NOT an expected outcome from Milton, making it a reasonable way to tell the story on the news.

Ballpark, 80k to 150k for those Furuno systems in the USA depending on single or dual polarity, etc. I have taken the sales pitch.

I live fairly close to the wonderful museum this is located at on Hill Air Force Base north of SLC.

This new exhibit is really neat but not very big, all things considered, and not worth the trip on its own.

What is worth the trip is the museum as a whole, with an F-117, the only SR-71C in existence, an F22, and all kinds of other planes and rockets - it's not Wright-Patterson, but it's one of the better USAF museums I've been to.

I simply toggled off JS and kept reading

The Air Quality and Pollen data in these APIs are from Google's fairly recent purchase of Breezometer, the same company Apple uses for AQI across iOS weather products.

Well, every U2 that lands needs to take off again, so maybe it was related to takeoff more than landing...

Forget newspapers, lets talk about SiriusXM and trying to cancel that; it makes the worst newspaper look like they are doing it perfectly.

It's hard to envision the FiveThirtyEight brand without Nate Silver being involved in it. I know they are going to keep it going as a stats-driven site, but so much of it was built on Nate's original and unique approach to data.

We were watching live and the control room went from completely excited to somber in about a one second period. Space is hard.

I handed this to a 12-year-old and am now having trouble getting him off the site for day #2 in a row; between Space Elevator and the rest of Neal.fun it's a whole new world for him - love it!