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Thoughts and insights from a team building a weather data platform designed to make complex weather data easier to use.
Atmospheric Sounding Interpretation: Making Sense of the Sky
Understanding the state of the atmosphere starts with good observations, and one of the most important tools we have is the weather balloon. Twice a day, at 00 and 12 UTC, around 1000 sites worldwide launch radiosondes (GPS-equipped radio-transmitting instruments) to...
Making Winter Easier With Better Winter Weather Data
Winter weather always finds a way to surprise people, which is precisely why winter weather data matters so much this time of year. Operations teams say the same thing every winter. The models look solid, the setup seems clear, then the real world shifts. A degree or...
How Terrain and Temperature Shape Mountain Wind Patterns
Some of the most extreme conditions on Earth are experienced within mountains. Mt. Washington, NH, for example, experiences some of the harshest weather on the continent. It has an annual average wind speed of 35 mph and holds the record for the second-highest wind...
New RAP Smoke Model Data from NOAA Now in Our Stack
We’re excited to announce that RAP Smoke model data from NOAA is now part of the products we ingest and deliver to our customers. This addition gives developers and analysts a new way to visualize smoke movement and density across North America. It is especially...
Keeping It Simple: Our Approach to Fargate Container Management
Running a weather company in the cloud means processing massive amounts of data every hour. Our software engineers write our importers, and more recently, our atmospheric scientist writes the real weather code. But after our AWS Lambda costs spiraled out of control,...
Introducing the Wet Dog Weather Customer Referral Program
At Wet Dog Weather, we make weather data look better — and now you can help us share it. Our customer referral program makes it easy to connect others with the same visualization tools you already know and trust. If you know a decision maker who could benefit from...
Smarter Query Design with OGC Services and AWS
I work a lot with open standards and on AWS. I've been thinking about how some of the standards we depend on result in open-ended queries, and how I wish they were more like some of the AWS services we use to build those services. That's especially true for OGC...
A Look at the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season So Far
We’re deep into the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, and even though the U.S. hasn’t had a landfalling hurricane yet, it’s far from a quiet year in the tropics. Storms don’t have to make landfall to cause major damage, and this season has been a perfect example of...
Making the Most of AWS Credits as a Startup
When launching a startup, cloud infrastructure costs can quickly add up. That’s why Amazon Web Services (AWS) and competing cloud vendors offer startups cloud credit programs to help offset expenses in the early years. These AWS credits can be a lifeline, but figuring...
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