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Mostly here for charts and maps 💁📊 especially about weather and space

Montréal ⚜️🌹🌲🌷☘️

stevecarufel.com (needs an update)
github.com/datacarvel
Gigantic blaze in the #Etosha National Park and around in #Namibia as seen from above

Burnt area was estimated at nearly 1M hectares 2 days ago. That's more than all the fires in British Columbia this year 😳

Fortunately, it didn't grow much since then and appears to be contained

#wildfire #Africa
September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
So it's #TidyTuesday and we're looking at US retail #gasoline and #diesel prices of the last 30 years

#rstats #dataviz ⛽ 🚗🚛
July 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
June 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
#Clouds cut with a knife 🔪☁️ from both below and above 😎 (with some sat imagery lag)

#Montreal
June 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Et la ville de #Québec #QuebecCity
June 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Now for #Ottawa
June 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
So we just had a lame spring in #Quebec and wanted to see how obvious this was in the data

So I made this calendar heatmap for #Montreal, showing :

🌡️ Max temperatures

☀️☁️ Hours of cloud cover

🌧️ Precipitations

#weather #meteo #Rstats

In short, May was indeed dull
June 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Bonus : 3D rotating view
May 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Annoted full view
May 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Played with #Rstats and {rayshader} to make this #Quebec population density map, thanks to a tutorial by @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social ✌️⚜️

Code 👉 github.com/datacarvel/q...
May 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Looks like this. Photo courtesy of Alexe Godbout
May 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Sentinel-2 view
May 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A lake just... completely drained in Northern #Quebec, in a matter of days. Lake Rouge, ~70km SW of Chapais.

Still a mystery, but it seems that a small natural dam has burst and all the water escaped.

Sentinel-1 | Copernicus Programme | EU | SentinelHub
May 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
#TidyTuesday

1000+ grants of scientific research from the NIH and NSF were terminated under the current Trump admin.

I compared their abstract against that list of 350+ banned words from federal sites and docs, with incendiary terms like "peanut allergies", "women" and "water quality".

#rstats
May 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
#30DayChartChallenge Day 30 : NetGeo Theme Day

[war horn in the distance]

The story of #AgeOfEmpires2 since its original 1999 release and all the available civilizations to play with and attack others, group by region and version.

#rstats #videogames
May 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
#30DayChallenge Day 29 : Extraterrestrial

Here are the distances from Earth to other planets over time

Hardly useful, really just neat waveforms 〰️🪐〰️

Maybe I'll create a #synth patch with these someday 🎹🎛️👀

#space #Jupiter #Saturn #SolarSystem
April 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
#30DayChartChallenge Day 27 : Noise

Our #Sun 's level of activity since 1749, as indicated by its number of sunspots.

Most coronal mass ejections come from these "colder" areas over the Sun. CMEs provoke the biggest aurora shows when Earth is in their way.

#rstats #space
April 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
#30DayChartChallenge Day 26 : Monochrome

#Bixi rides in #Montreal - notable increase in the number of rides 🚴🔥🔥🔥

And since last year, they are available year round ⛄

#Quebec #velo #bicycle
April 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#30DayChartChallenge Day 13 : Clusters

All the 95 confirmed moons of #Jupiter 🌚🌝

#rstats #space
April 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#30DdayChartChallenge Day 24 : WHO data day

Comparing levels of #depression of the migrant and non-migrant populations across 8 countries of the EU.

Of course, I wish there was more recent data, maybe soon. Past 2019, I'm not sure what we should expect 😐

#rstars #europe #eurostat #mentalhealth
April 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#30DayChartChallenge Day 23 : logscale

A sequel to Day 4 : Everything that goes up... must go down. Also true for all the things we send to our lower orbit.

All human objects that reentered our atmosphere since 2000.

(not exactly log, but safe to say it will be one very soon 😬)

#rstats #space
April 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#30DayChartChallenge Day 21 : Fossils

The price of gas at the pump of the last 35 years in constant 2025 $CAD ⛽🚘

It got more expensive, +/- 30%, although it's been impressively steady since 2010 in most cities.

#rstats #canada #climatechange
April 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Looking at this chart, it's as if there was some build-up to that 2022 winter.

Also, ironically, the next 3 winters were quite low on snow.
April 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Insane winter. Even in January, the amount of snow made no sense.

Snow on ground ultimately reached 180 cm (5'9'') says the official data, but as you can see... that's a bit more than that. For methodological reasons, it's often underestimated.

📷 Andy Letemplier | Currys winter road updates 138
April 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
February 2022. A resident of Blanc-Sablon, Québec is trapped in his own house : all doors and windows are blocked by deep snow. That was no joke.

He dug his way out, putting the snow in his bath and I'm not sure where else. Took a few hours.

The story I did back then at MétéoMédia (in French) 👇
April 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM