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Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by Etheryte on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:06AM (#13679006)
Without any context or explanation, the link isn't really useful nor interesting. Is a daily average change of roughly 0.5 uR/h meaningful? We can see from the hourly chart above that short-term fluctuations can be between roughly 0 and 20 uR/h, what is a meaningful change? It's currently very unclear what the linker is trying to say with sharing the link and why it was shared to begin with.
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by moonshinefe on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:28AM (#13679065)
agreed, there's 0 context here and I'd be highly interested to know why the graphs are being up voted.
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by jameswason on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:37AM (#13679085)
agreed
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by rodionos on Sunday February 19, 2017 @06:51AM (#13679268)
Correlated to Iodine-131 readings in Europe?
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by chipperyman573 on Sunday February 19, 2017 @04:48AM (#13678949)
I see a huge jump between the 17th and 18th but I have no idea what that means. Can someone please explain? Or is the jump minor, and the axis is to blame for the seemingly large change?
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by exDM69 on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:08AM (#13679010)
Note the scale. The "huge jump" is from 8.3 to 8.7 uR/h, just a few percent.
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by t_fatus on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:26AM (#13679062)
nevertheless it seems quite significative, and I would love to get some explaination for this kind of jump.
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by unicornporn on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:03AM (#13679002)
I have no idea either, but I'd guess it's an insignificant change based on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676862

Silicon Valley is far from "Europe" though...

Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by Nanite on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:57AM (#13679137)
Would downvote if I could, anything below 10 uR/h is background radiation. Sniffles posted a link to a rad monitoring device doing it's thing, and not showing anything out of the ordinary.
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by 50CNT on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:59AM (#13679141)
I think it's great that the chart is completely ordinary. Imagine how terrible it'd be if it suddenly became fascinating.
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by walkingolof on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:39AM (#13679091)
I dont know the context, but there has been a Iodine-131 leak has been detected in Europe in January ....

http://www.irsn.fr/EN/newsroom/News/Pages/20170213_Detection...

Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by yoodenvranx on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:49AM (#13679118)
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by rodionos on Sunday February 19, 2017 @06:32AM (#13679216)
San Jose: https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-air-data-san-jose-ca

San Francisco: https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-air-data-san-francisco-ca

  Gamma Gross Count Rate represents how many gamma rays the monitor detects each minute.
The levels looks normal to me.
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by jameswason on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:36AM (#13679084)
No relation with the link and post.
Re:Silicon Valley radiation levels by gojiberry on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:30AM (#13679069)
Could it be the storm is bringing radiation from Fukushima?