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Thoughts and insights from a team building a weather data platform designed to make complex weather data easier to use.
New Weather Data Interpolation Options in Terrier
One of the easiest ways to change how data looks is by changing how it's interpolated. The underlying data remains the same, but the method used to sample and display it can dramatically affect what users see on screen. In this update, we're adding a new weather data...
The Ultimate Animated Wind Display (So Far)
We make a visual toolkit for weather called Terrier. It's tied to our own data processing because we need the data processed in a certain way to feed it. It's also much easier to sell a weather data processing platform than it is to sell visualization. One of the...
Tracking the El Niño Weather Pattern in 2026
Recently, we published a blog post to explain global weather patterns. We covered Eulerian and Lagrangian frames, advection, circulation cells, and the jet stream. Now is the time to unpack arguably the most famous teleconnection of all: the El Niño weather pattern....
The Mechanics of Global Weather Patterns
The atmosphere is a chaotic place shaped by constantly shifting energy, motion, and global weather patterns that influence conditions across the planet. Meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson once summed it up this way: “Big whirls have little whirls,That feed on their...
Meandair Weather Models Now Available
We pride ourselves on processing a wide variety of observational and model data. Years ago, we started with the standard National Weather Service models and NEXRAD radar you'll see in weather apps. Since then, we've added a wide variety of specialized data and weather...
Future Radar WCS Queries: A Practical Walkthrough
We launched our future radar product a few weeks ago, and it's going great. The visual side looks good and should serve our customers well. Now we're digging into the data side, specifically how future radar WCS queries work in practice. Let's take a look at how this...
Exploring Real-Time Precipitation Type in Alaska
We recently released a future radar product across several North American domains, and it's already sparked some ideas around real-time precipitation type. The most popular domain is likely to be the continental US (CONUS), but the others have their uses. Alaska has...
Introducing St. Bernard: Your EOC Weather Display Companion
At Wet Dog Weather, we believe that weather data shouldn't be a hurdle. Whether you're managing a local response or coordinating a state-wide recovery, the speed at which you can understand environmental threats is critical, and having a reliable EOC weather display...
Future Radar in Terrier: How to Get Started
Last week, we introduced Future Radar, our take on advected radar for MRMS. Now that it's live, we’re going to show you how to actually use it across our products. We'll start with Future Radar in Terrier. If you're already displaying radar in Terrier for Web, you're...
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