How To Visualize the Power of Shifting Winds & Energizing Sunrises: WeatherPower™ Forecasting
Use this easy & cool *newly updated* tool + a Weekly Forecast Generator from ClimateCentral
How To Visualize the Power of Shifting Winds & Energizing Sunrises
I’m going to show you how to simply see and share wind and solar power forecasts.
Connecting the dots between weather, climate, and power isn’t easy. But showing with visuals instead of telling with only words can create a tangible sense of the connections between tomorrow’s weather and your renewable power forecast.
Unfortunately, most folks instinctively Tell, and Don’t Show. Moreover, most aren’t aware of freely available tools to put these forces at the palm of your fingertips.
🔮Communicating Clean Energy & Weather
I didn't always know how to contextualize weather and climate content, and that's common. Most folks don't know how to communicate these interconnections impactfully in part because they don't know
where to access
accurate & trustworthy
consistent, reliable, & dynamic
reframing & reformating stats & sources
but thanks to Climate Central, the power is in your hands. Here's how, step by step:
🧭Step 1: Choose Your Own Wind or Solar Adventure
Start here for a daily forecast: You can choose your own location, wind, solar, languages between English and Spanish, and even toggle the forecast with and without background images.
☀️Step 2: Generate Periodic Climate Power Forecasts
You can follow ClimateCentral and access resources like their daily forecast electricity generator as well as their Year In Review tools—
WeatherPower™ Daily/Weekly Forecast
Create a graphic forecasting daily wind or solar electricity generation in your “media market” / area —
2022 Year in Review Tools— Background
🌀Step 3: Personalize for Your Audience & Context
You have the power to transform these graphs into specific visuals customized for your area/understanding— meaning, various stat-cuts of: equivalent number of homes powered, trees planted, car miles, CO2 avoided, home energy savings, power index, and electricity generated.
Tailoring climate communication to your audience makes it all more likely to click. And now it’s easy with a few clicks! I hope you feel empowered with an easy way to enhance others understanding of both weather, climate, and the interconnections shining on the horizon — and the change blowing in the wind.