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He dubbed it \u201cweathergami.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The basic idea of scorigami \u2013 created by sportswriter Jon Bois \u2013 is to chart the scores in a sport to see how often score combinations appear. A scorigami is when a score appears for the first time. Applying the idea to football, for example, more than 1,000 different final scores have been achieved since the National Football League was formed in 1920. One just happened on New Year\u2019s Eve: The Baltimore Ravens\u2019 56-19 victory over the Miami Dolphins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/ravens-blowout-win-over-dolphins-ends-with-final-score-thats-never-been-seen-before-in-nfl-history\/\">was a scorigami<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_128717\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128717\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/01\/Chicago-IL-weathergami-for-Dec-22-2023.png\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-128717 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/01\/weathergami300x250-Chicago-IL-weathergami-for-Dec-22-2023.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This plot of Chicago weather shows a weathergami on Dec. 23, 2023. (Click on photo to see it larger.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weathergami got started a few years ago when Kahl\u2019s son called with a question. \u201cHe asked me if there&#8217;s anything like scorigami in weather. My response to that was, \u2018what&#8217;s scorigami?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After his son explained the concept, Kahl was intrigued by the idea. He did some research charting the high and low temperatures in Milwaukee during different seasons, using 80 years of historical weather data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kahl started charting a few more locations. \u201cI thought not only does this look interesting, but you can actually see things about the weather and climate of a place using these kind of charts that are difficult or even impossible to see using other modes of display. So, I thought it was pretty cool, and wrote it up into a paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/bams\/104\/10\/BAMS-D-23-0035.1.xml\">His research article on weathergami<\/a> was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society in October. The response amazed Kahl.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two or three weeks after the article was published, Twitter (now known as X) discovered it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt has kind of exploded on Twitter,\u201d Kahl said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_128716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128716\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/01\/Weathergami-summary-for-Dec-25-2023.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-128716 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2024\/01\/weathergami300x200-Weathergami-summary-for-Dec-25-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This graphic shows weathergamis across the country. (Click on photo to see it larger.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using a checkerboard layout, with low temperatures shown vertically and high temperatures horizontally, he color-coded the different temperature combinations in four cities through the seasons. In Chicago, for example, the chart could show visually how often a high of 90 and a low of 75 occurred during the summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The charts show how many times a certain high-low combination has occurred in a more visual way than a line graph. \u201cA weathergami, according to my definition, is when you get a combination that has never occurred before,\u201d Kahl said.<\/p>\n<h3>Over 5,000 on Twitter<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interested followers created a page on X with the handle <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Weathergami\">@Weathergami<\/a>, which already has nearly 6,000 followers. One follower created software that looks at around 200 weather data sites every day, and another <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jjrennie\/weathergami\">created a Python program<\/a> that other users could use to create their own weathergami charts. The Python software, which is open-source and freely available, allows users to access climate data and plot weathergami charts for any location.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Twitter people who have latched onto this idea have taken it in some interesting directions, like one guy invented the idea of a of an anti-weathergami,\u201d Kahl said. \u201cAccording to him, that\u2019s when a high-low temperature combination that happens most frequently occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another follower invented the \u201cultra weathergami,\u201d for when a combination occurs that has never happened anywhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kahl is surprised at the reaction but pleased that it\u2019s getting people interested in climate and weather. \u201cThey\u2019re interested in the \u2018gosh, gee whiz\u2019 novelty of it because it is kind of fun to look at those charts like I showed in the paper. The world so far has noticed only the novelty.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Research opportunities<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kahl, however, sees research opportunities to look at weather and climate patterns differently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou can investigate in this day and age of global warming, whether the high temperatures and low temperatures of the day are increasing at the same rates, and whether these temperature changes are different for cold days versus warm days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The charts for some cities showed the data moving up and to the right, indicating overall warming. However, a chart for San Francisco showed that while the coldest temperatures were rising, the warmest temperatures were not changing very much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat\u2019s the kind of observation you can\u2019t make from traditional ways of looking at climate change,\u201d Kahl said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students are taught about climate, he added, they use a figure with a bar graph showing monthly precipitation amounts and a line graph showing average temperatures for each month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat\u2019s fine. It\u2019s illustrative of the climates of different places. But if you add a weathergami chart to the mix, you get a lot of different information.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Frequency of changes<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He\u2019s also created weathergami charts to show the frequency of daily changes in high and low temperatures, which can be plotted to show information on the variability of the weather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, in a place like Honolulu, the weather pretty much never changes, he said. \u201cYou know the high temperature one day is almost exactly the same as the high temperature on the previous day. Whereas you know in Milwaukee, that\u2019s not the case. We often have wild temperature swings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another variation, a weathergami anomaly chart, can reveal characteristics of changing climate not evident in standard time series representations, according to Kahl.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In January, he headed to Mexico to lead a study abroad program over the winter break. So, he\u2019s planning a project to use weathergami to enhance standard climate classification charts showing temperatures and precipitation in areas of the U.S. and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI want to see how much information can be gained by including weathergami charts. I suspect that with many climate types, that will add some information that goes beyond what is available from those traditional bar and line graphs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Kahl turned a sports concept of the &#8220;scorigami&#8221; into a way of looking at weather patterns, and saw his work gain rapid popularity on social media. 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