Salutations, wxers. To balance out all the April 1 corporate tomfoolery I'm going to be less of a goofball today. Let's see if I can keep it STRICTLY BUSINESS.
Lots to report since my last update. The dynamical(.org) core is a-running.
The AI weather model from the European Centre has entered the catalog. ECMWF's AIFS Single — 15-day global forecasts at 0.25°, 6-hourly steps, live updating. This is the single-trace (deterministic-ish?) run of ECMWF's machine learning forecast system.
And of course, don't miss the release trailer: Youtube | LinkedIn
New CONUS RADAR dataset! MRMS is Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor — NOAA's merged radar and gauge precipitation analysis over CONUS, hourly, back to late 2014. If you've ever wanted to answer "how much did it actually rain here, at this exact hour" without downloading 47 files from 3 different FTP servers... this is for you.
Release trailer: Youtube | LinkedIn
We passed the 100M monthly request mark. And then we passed the 200M monthly request mark. Which is either a sign that the data is useful or that three of you are running massive autoresearch.md deployments.
Either way, it's exciting and we appreciate everyone who's sent us what you're building!
We're testing a simple Python library: dynamical-catalog. The idea is to make discovery and loading even simpler — browse the catalog, pick a dataset, and get an xarray Dataset or Store back without copy-pasting URLs. We'll handle picking the best Store backend. It's early days. If you try it, let us know what breaks.
Enjoy the weather,
MM