by Daphne Thompson | Oct 23, 2025 | Data
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...
by Christy Rohrig | Oct 2, 2025 | Data
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...
by Steve Gifford | Sep 25, 2025 | Data
If you’re not familiar, Amazon Simple Storage Service is an object storage product with a well-defined interface. You put file-like objects into it, and you can get whole objects or parts of them back out. What we had to learn, as many others have before us, is how S3...
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 David Crowe | Aug 21, 2025 | Data
When wildfires break out, the flames aren’t the only concern; where the smoke goes can have massive downstream impacts on health, travel, and response coordination. That’s where smoke transport modeling comes in. The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR)...
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...
