by Steve Gifford | Sep 28, 2023 | Data
At Wet Dog Weather, we’re all about dynamic data display. We like slinging data tiles around and doing complex things in your web browser. But sometimes, you need some map tiles for visualization. We can do that with our new Static Tile Service. HRRR temperature data...
by Steve Gifford | Sep 25, 2023 | Data, MapLibre, Terrier
We’ve fully integrated Terrier for Web with MapLibreJS. The above image shows Terrier’s radar layer. MapLibre is our favorite, and our contracting side is doing some work for MapLibre Native. But this is unrelated, and it’s for the web. Much like the...
by Steve Gifford | May 24, 2023 | Data
When we started Wet Dog Weather, we were really excited about Infrastructure As Code. If you’re not familiar with it, you lay out your servers, DNS, caching, scaling, containers, and so forth in code. Then, you run the code, and it sets it all up for you. Our language...
by Steve Gifford | Apr 19, 2023 | Data, Terrier
We’ve been busily working on the radar visualization web support for our display toolkit, Terrier. Yes, everything is named after a dog breed. The Journey to Web-Based Radar Visualization Terrier started on mobile and displayed wind, temperature, radar, and other data...
by Steve Gifford | Dec 21, 2022 | Data
Did you hear there’s a possible Bomb Cyclone in much of the lower 48 this week? If you follow the weather, ‘bomb cyclone’ is an arresting term for a very cold winter storm. We can let the meteorologists have this. As always, I’m curious how these events look in our...
by Steve Gifford | Dec 8, 2022 | Data, Terrier
In the U.S., we have the NEXRAD system, which spits out an incredible amount of radar data at various levels of detail. If you want the latest and greatest, you can pull individual messages out, which is a blast. Alternatively, you can look at the mosaic radar...
