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> This is part of the plan to gut and privatize NOAA because the billionaire behind AccuWeather says so. Source?
For one example: https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/letters/noaa-...
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I could barely care less because NOAA weather models are garbage. The NOAA GFS and NAM models are basically dinosaurs at this point compared to what Meteoblue is running. I've been tracking this stuff for ten years and it's not even close anymore. GFS still limps along at 13km resolution and only updates four times a day. Like, are we still in 2010? It completely screws up thunderstorm timing and can't handle mountai…
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I could barely care less because NOAA weather models are garbage. The NOAA GFS and NAM models are basically dinosaurs at this point compared to what Meteoblue is running. I've been tracking this stuff for ten years and it's not even close anymore. GFS still limps along at 13km resolution and only updates four times a day. Like, are we still in 2010? It completely screws up thunderstorm timing and can't handle mountai…
It may be worth mentioning that NEMS and AROME are only available for parts of Europe. I'm willing to believe they are better, but here in Northeastern America I typically find that NAM is the best I have available for 3-day, and GFS is usually slightly better than ECMWF and ICON for long term (although none of the long term are great).
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gencast-predicts-weath...
For posterity, here's the full text of the page: --- beta.weather.gov Has Been Deactivated Until Further Notice This page has been deactivated until further notice due to the loss of critical federal staff, which leaves this project without the resources required to continue its development or for routine monitoring and maintenance. The National Weather Service remains committed to designing a more informative and us…
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It was an in progress rewrite of the weather.gov frontend, to make it more user friendly and accessible.
Does anyone know if it was actually good or a trainwreck like the Reddit redesign. New doesn't always mean better.
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It was an in progress rewrite of the weather.gov frontend, to make it more user friendly and accessible.
Does anyone know if it was actually good or a trainwreck like the Reddit redesign. New doesn't always mean better.
They focus on presenting a good amount of data in a pretty simple way.
Because of the nature of what they do there will always be a ton of data to present or display. At least in my opinion, NOAA does a great job here.
Their UIs have always been simple, easy to use, and reliable. Some data gets buried but that's the nature of it.
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> This is part of the plan to gut and privatize NOAA because the billionaire behind AccuWeather says so. Source?
It’s an opinion - he/she is the source
So, not an opinion. The sources are the dozens of times they've said they want to shutter NOAA.
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Does anyone know if it was actually good or a trainwreck like the Reddit redesign. New doesn't always mean better.
Historically, NOAA's redesigns are pretty good. They focus on presenting a good amount of data in a pretty simple way. Because of the nature of what they do there will always be a ton of data to present or display. At least in my opinion, NOAA does a great job here. Their UIs have always been simple, easy to use, and reliable. Some data gets buried but that's the nature of it.
I'm sure the team is well-intentioned, but it should have been done more thoughtfully.
What did this site do? I use forecast.weather.gov as my weather site; it still works.
I knew a colleague who is on a sailing team and I knew she would know weather, so I asked her, what is a good weather site without much ads and with a simple interface? And she replied immediately, weather.gov. I could have kissed her, because this was such an amazing and pragmatic idea I wouldn't have come up with on my own. And weather.gov has been my go-to weather site for probably 15 years.
It will suck if weather.gov's service is degraded in some way. No matter how many people hate it for existing, the USGov truly puts out excellent science and fantastic content. So much of it is publicly exposed, public domain, and in the service of the American people. It will be sad to watch this valuable infrastructure decay or be abandoned.
The Meteoblue predictions seem sometimes much different from other predictions, and it was said that Meteoblue had a combined model that may be better than all other models, so I’d like to see some data.