GeoService

A Southern Plains winter storm is forecast to impact large portions of the central and southern U.S. from Friday through the weekend, bringing snow, ice, and dangerously cold temperatures. Understanding forecast uncertainty—and preparing now—can help reduce risk as conditions worsen.

Atmospheric sounding interpretation provides a vertical view of temperature, moisture, and wind through twice-daily weather balloon launches. By plotting this data on a Skew-T diagram, forecasters can assess instability, identify key levels, and better anticipate developing weather.

Wet Dog Weather is now ingesting RAP Smoke model data from NOAA. This addition helps developers, analysts, and app builders visualize smoke movement and improve air quality insights in their applications.

Running weather data imports in the cloud sounds simple—until you need to scale them efficiently. Here’s what we learned about Fargate container management, from tuning container size and scaling logic to building a system that just runs, no babysitting required.

Know someone who could use clearer, faster weather data? Refer them through Wet Dog Weather’s customer referral program — and we’ll take it from there.

If you’ve ever pulled data from OGC services, you know how easily one request can snowball into a flood of XML. In this post, we examine why open-ended queries persist, how AWS handles large results differently, and what the geospatial community could learn from that approach.