> For a newbie in this domain, how do we start doing our own toy forecasts (lets say for Bay area)? There are some available weather modeling packages, such a

> For a newbie in this domain, how do we start doing our own toy forecasts (lets say for Bay area)? There are some available weather modeling packages, such as WRF[0], as a mesoscale (few km to 1000 kms) model, that one can download and run. You'd obviously need to find a resource for the appropriate input data. I don't know how easy it is to get up and running, though. [0] http://www.wrf-model.org/index.php http://www.wrf-model.org/index.php