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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 Use an AI Coding Assistant With Terrier

See how Wet Dog Weather’s TerrierWebSkill helps an AI coding assistant handle setup, configuration, and integration to get a working weather radar app running in minutes.

Wet Bulb Globe Temperature: What You Need to Know

Temperature alone doesn’t tell the whole story when it comes to heat stress. Learn how Wet Bulb Globe Temperature combines temperature, humidity, wind, and radiant heat to better represent the conditions people experience outdoors.

The Challenge of Working With Multiple Weather Data Sources

Weather data is coming from more places than ever, from radar and satellites to sensors, models, and AI. But bringing those sources together creates new challenges for weather applications.

New Weather Data Interpolation Options in Terrier

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...

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The Ultimate Animated Wind Display (So Far)

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...

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Tracking the El Niño Weather Pattern in 2026

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....

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The Mechanics of Global Weather Patterns

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...

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Meandair Weather Models Now Available

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...

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Exploring Real-Time Precipitation Type in Alaska

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...

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Future Radar in Terrier: How to Get Started

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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Our weather data platform handles everything from standard datasets to custom data, whether purchased or generated in-house. Customers can have their own Boxer stack with access to Terrier front-end tools, and we provide full support for processing, transforming, and delivering weather information efficiently. Customization is where our expertise shines, helping you get exactly the weather insights you need. Let’s work together to bring your next weather data project to life!