A time lapse study of the sky for a year (opens in new tab)

Wow it's awfully sunny in San Francisco.

A similar time-lapse video from Finland shows the difference between one day in summer to a day in winter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTjyt-6hJQw

So not only is this incredibly cool to watch, but it illustrates how the lenght of the day and weather changes throughout the year. I could see this type of project being replicated for various biomes and used in student materials. Brilliant idea!

Also, it was nice to learn about MobyGratis.com. I've always like Moby's music, but the fact that he makes his music available like this for non-commercial use is just awesome.

While watching I was thinking that this would be a much more informative graphic way to show someone what the weather was like in a particular location. I've always looked at those average temperature or precipitation graphs when deciding when to make a trip somewhere far away. If you could visualize every day of the year on a grid like this your brain would just see the "best" time to visit based on what you're looking for.

A compelling "small multiples" [1] view of weather. The astronomer in me wishes the sequence started with the winter solstice (Dec. 21), though!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_multiple

It's amazing what you can learn from visualizing data in unexpected ways. I love how putting each video in a grid next to other videos teaches you so much more the day cycle than watching a single video by itself. It's pretty amazing.

The really cool part for me was seeing a cloudy day and then right next to it a day full of clouds being blown apart.

Also really interesting that cloudy days generally seem to be cloudy all day.

This is really neat. I got it up on a 27" iMac and let it play. So great. Thanks for sharing.

go to 1:54 top right quarter, there are some weird people shadows appearing.