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We are Wet Dog Weather, a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that specializes in enterprise-level solutions for weather & sensor data dissemination and visualization.
A Powerful Southern Plains Winter Storm Takes Shape for the Weekend
A Southern Plains winter storm is forecast to impact large portions of the central and southern U.S. from Friday through the weekend, bringing snow, ice, and dangerously cold temperatures. Understanding forecast uncertainty—and preparing now—can help reduce risk as conditions worsen.
When Visibility Matters, Fog Visualization Makes the Difference
Fog is one of the most underestimated weather hazards, often forming quickly and reducing visibility with little warning. Effective fog visualization provides critical awareness of where fog is developing and how it evolves over time. By ingesting HRRR model data and visualizing low-level clouds through Terrier, Wet Dog Weather delivers a clear, high-resolution view of fog conditions that supports safer, better-timed decisions.
Introducing Our New WWA Weather Data Pipeline
Wet Dog Weather now supports WWA weather data across Terrier for Mobile, giving developers access to NWS Warnings, Watches, and Alerts. This new capability includes full polygons, event details, and all NWS fields, marking the start of our vector-based weather data projects.
Atmospheric Sounding Interpretation: Making Sense of the Sky
Atmospheric sounding interpretation provides a vertical view of temperature, moisture, and wind through twice-daily weather balloon launches. By plotting this data on a Skew-T diagram, forecasters can assess instability, identify key levels, and better anticipate developing weather.
Making Winter Easier With Better Winter Weather Data
Winter weather data plays a critical role in how teams prepare for rapidly evolving cold-season hazards. A single degree can flip a snow event into icy conditions, and model disagreements often add more confusion. This post explains why winter weather still surprises operations teams and how better visualization tools can make the season easier to manage.
How Terrain and Temperature Shape Mountain Wind Patterns
Mountain environments create some of the most dynamic wind behavior on Earth. This post examines how terrain and temperature influence mountain wind patterns, why forecasting in complex landscapes is challenging, and how visualization tools like Boxer and Terrier are aiding researchers in better understanding these intricate flows.
New RAP Smoke Model Data from NOAA Now in Our Stack
Wet Dog Weather is now ingesting RAP Smoke model data from NOAA. This addition helps developers, analysts, and app builders visualize smoke movement and improve air quality insights in their applications.
Keeping It Simple: Our Approach to Fargate Container Management
Running weather data imports in the cloud sounds simple—until you need to scale them efficiently. Here’s what we learned about Fargate container management, from tuning container size and scaling logic to building a system that just runs, no babysitting required.
Introducing the Wet Dog Weather Customer Referral Program
Know someone who could use clearer, faster weather data? Refer them through Wet Dog Weather’s customer referral program — and we’ll take it from there.
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We are a Software as a Service company, and we charge accordingly. Our customers rent their own Boxer stack and gain access to our Terrier front-end libraries. We process a variety of standard data sets, which is…. standard. But we also process custom data you may buy or generate yourself. That’s where things get interesting