# Tracking Climate Change

## Updates

2/23/2026

Since a lot of you are from the STL area, here is a chart including the polar vortex log for those days (it shows up in the outermost top right of the ring, which is 2026).

=> https://climateradial.com/chart?autoload_flag=true&which_data=KCPS0&year_to_go_back=2019&which_scale=normal&temp_unit_type=f&which_data_type=tmin&which=tmin STL Low Temperatures 2019-2026

2/3/2026

Polar vortex doing its vortexing. 

=> https://climateradial.com/chart?autoload_flag=true&which_data=72635&year_to_go_back=2019&which_scale=normal&temp_unit_type=f&which_data_type=tmin&which=tmin Grand Rapids MI US Low Temperatures

You'll see that we have had more subzero days in a row this year than other years even though there was a lot of them in 2019.


From 2001 to 2004 I was in a lot of eye pain and for some reason I got obsessed with giving every day a pain level and tracking it and charting it. This eventually led to wanting to create a radial heat map of it with onion-skin years. I was jettisoned from the place that was making my pain worse but the idea for a radial heat map persisted, this time to track climate.  In 2024 I finally was able to (largely) vibe code something in d3.js JavaScript that pulls climate data data from Meteostat and charts it. It's not close to finished but far enough along to show people.

The chart below tracks the high temperature of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska USA from 1915-2026

=> ak.jpg

The concentric circles are years, the outermost the current year. The charts with tons of data don't include the year labeling.

=> https://climateradial.com/chart?autoload_flag=true&which_data=70026 See on the Web

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