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Thoughts and insights from a team building a weather data platform designed to make complex weather data easier to use.
How to Choose the Right Weather Map Layers
When most people open a weather app, they're greeted by a familiar sight: a radar map showing rain and storms moving across the landscape. Radar has become synonymous with weather data, but it's only one of many weather map layers that help people make informed...
Building Better Weather Data Monitoring
It's been a while since we've talked about the infrastructure behind Boxer, our cloud-native weather data processing system. Because Boxer ingests and processes weather datasets from a variety of sources, we've been investing in automated testing to improve our...
European Radar Data and the Challenge of Quality Control
We are processing the EUMETNET OPERA composite today, and European radar data is now available upon request. That means pan-European radar reflectivity is ready to go alongside the North American products we already offer. As we've been testing the composite, we've...
European Weather Radar Now Available
We're adding a new data set to our mix: a European radar composite. If you're building weather applications for Europe, finding reliable European weather radar data isn't always as straightforward as it is in the United States. That's why we've started testing the...
The Truth About AI-Generated Code Isn’t What You Think
During the summer of 2026, three meteorology students spent nearly three months building weather applications with AI. One developed a storm chasing dashboard packed with professional forecasting tools. Another created a fishing forecast application designed around...
Better Observations Through Proper Weather Station Siting
Since the 17th century, humanity has gleaned quantifiable insights into the happenings of our atmosphere near the surface. Torricelli inverted a mercury tube in 1643 and gave us the barometer, and the instruments that followed turned weather from something observed...
Student-Built AI Weather Applications in Action
This summer, three college students set out to answer the same question: How can AI help build better weather applications? During their internships at Wet Dog Weather, Alicia Skiver-Palmer, Lex Hudson, and Antonio McElfresh each developed unique AI weather...
NDFD Weather Codes: A Practical Guide
According to its web page, the National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) is a "suite of gridded forecasts of sensible weather elements." I think they mean "sense" as in you can feel them, but I like the idea of nonsensical weather elements. Like, what does "cloud...
MapLibre Native Weather Integration Now Available in Terrier
Terrier is our visual weather toolkit, built to integrate with leading map frameworks and to display time-series weather data interactively. Our new weather integration brings Terrier's advanced weather visualization capabilities to MapLibre Native, giving iOS...
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