Credits
One Caribbean We Outside is built on openly available data and software. Thank you to the people and organisations behind them.
Weather and sea forecasts
Weather, marine and air quality forecasts: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), which combines models from national weather services.
Air quality and Saharan dust forecasts come from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), through Open-Meteo.
Live lightning
Lightning data: Xweather. Live lightning currently covers Jamaica only.
Scoring
The 0–10 score grew out of the Go Run Index in our daily runner and cyclist email. It uses standard formulas for heat index, dew point and an estimate of wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT), tuned for Caribbean heat and humidity.
Software and fonts
- Hosting: GitHub Pages; forecasts are rebuilt by GitHub Actions and Google Apps Script.
- Typeface: Inter by Rasmus Andersson (SIL Open Font License 1.1), served by Google Fonts.
Photos
Header photos are supplied by the site owner.