An algorithmic analysis of Pittsburgh weather
Saw this from the folks at Daily Kos Crooks and Liars; re the Netroots Nation event in my hometown later this summer. It's an algorithmic analysis of the climate of Pittsburgh:
I would like to put forward the proposition that, unlike most temperate regions which use a two bit climate system, that Pittsburgh instead uses a single bit to encode its climate. You see, Pittsburgh assigns Summer to one value, let's say 0. Winter gets the other, in this case 1. In order to approximate Spring and Fall, a 50% dithering pattern is used. Thus a week during Spring might look like either 0101010 or 1010101. So when the entire season is taken as a whole, Spring and Fall display average temperature for a temperate region. However, any single day can only be one of two possible states-- Summer or Winter. ...
I am proposing that this is the reason that Pittsburgh temperature seems so variable, and Fall and Spring so erratic.
I'm not sure that Pittsburgh's weather is that erratic compared to some, but had to linke to any post that combines my Yinzer hometown and computer geeky-ness!
