How we make electricity

Here are interactive web resources related to electricity generation in the US:

• U.S. Power Plants, 2016 allows you to compare electricity generation in 2007 and in 2016.
• An Atlas of Electricity is a fully-immersive Esri Story Map

MOL: The Map of Life

MOL Map of Life has it all: interactive web map, data, and an app to contribute to biodiversity observations.

Average Cloud Cover in 2018

This is great: Average Earth from Space 2018
More details here.

https://hannes.enjoys.it/blog/2019/01/average-earth-from-space-2018/

Does that explain it?

Climate Disasters 2018

Deadly weather: the human cost of 2018's climate disasters – visual guide from The Guardian is intense. Maybe too intense - too much visual fireworks that distract from the story.

2018 Winds

This is super-cool: 2018 Winds

This animation nicely shows the main large-scale wind systems and, superimposed, the travels of mid-latitude cyclones in the Westerlies and tropical cyclones ('hurricane pearls') in the Trade Winds.

Embedded below is a similar effort by nullschool (hurricane season starts ~1:15).

Gilbert Plass (1956 and 1959)

Gilbert Plass had this all figured-out 50 years ago.

• Plass (1956): The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change
• Plass (1959): Carbon Dioxide and Climate

Google Tour Creator

Google Tour Creator is basically a quick and simple way to build tours using Google Street View imagery. Here's a quick video: How to Use Google's VR Tour Creator.

Nice tool, especially for urbanized and developed areas with good Street View imagery.

ArcGIS Hub Open Data Portal

The ArcGIS Hub Open Data Portal is great.

• Finding Data on ArcGIS Hub Open Data Portal helps you with finding data.
• Hubs Around the World lets you explore open data hubs as a Story Map.

The Distressed Communities Index

 Read more about it here: From Great Recession to Great Reshuffling and explore the interactive map. Now overlay that on the 2016 election map and tell me what you see (Elizabeth Warren!).