Weather Horoscope
What is the project about?
Weather Horoscope draws on the popularity of astrology apps such as Co-Star. Whereas Co-Star advertises that it uses “NASA data to know exactly where the stars are”, Weather Horoscope draws on future climate data based on models to predict the future weather of a given place. This future weather is presented to the user as both a station plot and a machine-learning generated forecast. Weather Horoscope experiments with the metaphorology of astrology in order to sound out the ambiguities and uncertainties around predicting future climate change.
References and links
- Campion, N. (2015). Astrology as Cultural Astronomy. In C. L. N. Ruggles (Ed.), Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (pp. 103-116). New York, NY: Springer New York.
- Siebenpfeiffer, H. (2016). Astrologie. In B. Bühler & S. Willer (Eds.), Futurologien: Ordnungen des Zukunftswissens (pp. 379-392). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink.
What is your research question?
How can one make sense of local, future weather in the face of global climate change?
How is the project and/or case situated?
Aside from astrology apps, the project is situated within the broad field of visualising and communicating climate change.
What methods, data sets, and tools are used?
- Climate model data from the Climate Data Store
- NWS forecast discussion and text forecast
- WMO weather symbols
Who is part of the team?
Lukas Diestel, Jonas Parnow, Giacomo Marinsalta, Birgit Schneider, Maximilian Hepach, May Ee Wong