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What Will Your City Feel Like in 2050? I Built a Climate Detective With 40 Years of NASA Data

Ask a weather app about climate change and it shows you a chart. Charts don't scare anyone.

So TerraDetective AI answers differently: your city in 2050 will feel like a city that exists today. Karachi's 2050 climate twin? Riyadh, now. That lands differently — because you've seen Riyadh's heat. You can picture living in it.

I built TerraDetective for the NASA Space Apps Challenge on 40 years of real NASA POWER data. No projections invented by a language model — measured data, analyzed live.

The feature to try first: Future Twin City. Pick your city; the tool analyzes its temperature trajectory and finds its 2050 climate twin among real cities today.

Also inside:

  • Was This Normal? — pick any month in history, get a z-score verdict: normal, unusual, or off the charts
  • Danger Days — count of days per year above heat thresholds, trended over decades
  • Real statistics — every trend ships with a 95% confidence interval and a p-value. If the trend isn't significant, the tool says so.

That last point is the whole philosophy: a climate tool that overstates its case is just propaganda with better charts. Every number carries its uncertainty.

Run your city through it:
👉 https://terradetective-ai.vercel.app
Code: https://github.com/rossycoder/terradetective-ai

Built for NASA Space Apps. Tell me your city's 2050 twin in the comments — the surprising ones are the best argument for building tools like this.

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