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...
by Steve Gifford | Nov 14, 2022 | Data
Venture Capitalists love a monopoly. They look for data moats around your product. What is it that you do that would be hard to duplicate? Companies have been doing this forever in the weather space: custom sensors, custom data processing, difficult algorithms, and...
by Steve Gifford | Oct 13, 2022 | Data, Terrier
Here’s something we like to do: We keep data in its coordinate system at its cadence and combine it all on the client for display. The Challenge of Coordinate System Diversity You can see it if you look off the coast of California. It starts with RTMA (measured...
