Jonathan Bowers

@jonotron.ca

🦋 Wildfire and climate tech, 🏊🏼🚴🏼🏃🏼 triathlon, 🧑🏼‍💻 data and code, 👶🏼 parenting. 🌲 Co-founder of @pathandfocus.com (wildfire) 🤖 Founder of @twostoryrobot.com (code)

@ballxpit.com it’s a bit too hard for my 6yo but he really likes watching me and deciding my upgrades. He’s also been building and playing in his imagination. Also the other kids in his class have no idea what he’s talking about. Anyways, here’s his builds

Skeleton King and some random enemies from Ball x Pit made from LegoVarious balls from Ball x Pit made from Plus Plus

#Kamloops had a little #wildfire this weekend that was quickly brought under control 🙏🏼 1st image is what LensVx shows for the potential growth of that fire (assuming no action taken and burning for 8h) 2nd image is if it starts on June 29, 2021 (peak heat dome).

Screenshot of a white and grey map in LensVx with an ignition point in Kenna Cartwright Park in Kamloops. The UI has Fire Intensity and HRDPS weather model selected. The ignition point is surrounded by a small cluster of pixels in orange and red showing little fire growth during the 8 hour burn period.Screenshot of a white and grey map in LensVx with an ignition point in Kenna Cartwright Park in Kamloops. The UI has Fire Intensity and Kamloops Heat dome historic weather selected. The fire spreads significantly across the majority of the park from the ignition point as shown by a large number of red and dark red pixels.

We use a white base for better data viz in LensVx, but it makes placing ignition points a little tricky. So we've added two extra layers: Canada wide fuel, and a satellite layer. The fuel layer let's you see the underlying fuel types while the satellite layer gives some context. #wildfire

Title: Satellite \\ Fuel \\ Data Visualization

Graphic showing a red wild fire growth model output stretch across a mapping interface. The map background is divided into thirds showing satellite overhead images, colourful fuel data, and white and grey streets and land marks. The logo and word mark of Path and Focus is in the lower left corner.

Welp, we started adding some legends to our fire growth outputs and realized that we were only using half of the colour palette. We should have mapped fire intensity to a scale of -1 to 1 instead we only mapped from 0 to 1 and missed the entire yellow portion of the palette. #wildfire

Screen shot of LensVx showing the fire intensity raster on a map. The output spreads to the north from a point on the map. The output is various shades of red.Screen shot of LensVx showing the fire intensity raster on a map. The output spreads to the north from a point on the map. The output is various shades of yellow, orange, and red.

@schickling.dev loving the podcast! Super curious about livestore. Sounds like exactly what I’m looking for. Does it sync with cloudflare (d1 and/or durable obj)? I’ve been having a lot of success with TinyBase, but I find the API cumbersome. Livestore looks way more my style.

I spent a good chunk of time the last few weeks writing a 500+ line duckdb sql query to calculate 12 nearest station distance interpolated weather values AND hourly fire weather indices. What a beast! Now to rip it all apart and maybe do less in the query. #duckdb #weather #wx #wildfire

Screenshot showing tabular weather data. Columns include date, relative humidity, wind speed, temperature, precipitation, wind direction, ffmc, dmc, dc, isi, bui, fwi.

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.