2 min

MeteoData

I graded three weather services against the station next door, to find out which parts of a forecast you can actually believe.

The forecast reliability report, showing the two Montréal forecast points and the weather stations that grade them

Montréal Forecast Reliability: Three Services, Two Places, 882 Comparisons

Three forecast services, two places in Montréal, every prediction graded against the weather station beside it over five days. Temperature holds up. Rain does not — 70% of the rain calls never happened. Interactive report, gradeable from one hour ahead to twenty-four.

2 min

Why Deadlines Slip, Mine Included

Hydro-Québec’s restoration times were right one time in twenty. I recognised the failure immediately, because I make the same one.

Montréal outage statistics from the Hydro-Québec reliability report

Hydro-Québec Outage Analysis: Two Months of Grid Reliability Data

A two-month reliability study of Hydro-Québec’s public outage feed — regional reliability, Montréal boroughs, ETA accuracy, causes, record outages, and the data pipeline behind it. Interactive charts + map.

2 min

HydroData

I recorded every power cut in Québec for two months, to see how often the power really returns when they say it will.