by Steve Gifford | Sep 18, 2025 | Data, Labrador
The Web Coverage Service (WCS) is an OGC standard for retrieving time-series gridded data sets. It has a strong weather and climate focus, and that’s mostly who uses it. I say that as if it’s a well-known standard… it’s really not. Most weather...
by Steve Gifford | Sep 4, 2025 | Terrier
We’ve had wind displays on mobile for ages — those hypnotic little wind particles swirling around like they’re auditioning for a weather-themed screensaver. But now we’re bringing something new (and pointier) to the web: wind direction arrows. If you’ve ever stared at...
by Steve Gifford | Aug 28, 2025 | Data
Ever wonder “where do weather apps get their data”? You’re not the only one. It turns out most apps in the U.S. are pulling from the same deep, government-funded well: the National Weather Service (NWS). That’s right, your favorite weather app,...
by Steve Gifford | Aug 14, 2025 | Data
At Wet Dog Weather, we process and store a lot of weather data. This includes using Zarr with AWS S3 to efficiently manage large, multidimensional arrays. We currently lean towards real-time weather display and query. However, our customers are nudging us towards...
by Steve Gifford | Aug 7, 2025 | Data
Air quality data isn’t quite the same as weather, but it’s similar. It covers the same areas, it’s structured in the same way, and it’s something that weather users often want to see. That’s why we now support air quality data alongside our standard weather products....
