Snowy Celebrations: Bending NWS Data for Frosty Festive Memories
Dylan Moriarty, The Washington Post
I’m dreaming of a snowy Christmas, though my memory tells me it’s a coin flip whether those mornings began with mounds already on the ground or midday snowfall. This got me thinking, what if we could tell someone how many “snowy” holidays they experienced? Not with a time machine, but the closest approximate thing we have to it: National Weather Service (NWS) data. This will be a talk about abstraction in GIS data work and design, and the stubbornness that went into the Washington Post piece “How much snow your hometown gets for the holidays.”
This presentation was made at the 2023 annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). For more information on NACIS, check out http://NACIS.org.
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