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We used Windy to predict when we were likely to have north winds at Summit Station in Greenland. During north winds we weren't allowed to do certain activities
by cozzyd 5y ago
We used Windy to predict when we were likely to have north winds at Summit Station in Greenland. During north winds we weren't allowed to do certain activities (e.g. ride snomos) in order to reduce emissions at the NOAA air monitoring lab. Hilariously, when the NOAA weather station at Summit went down, the predictions got noticeably worse, which makes total sense. ECMWF seemed to have the best predictions of the available models.
What's great is that despite the complexity of the presentation, the data itself is a simple image (jpg, strangely?) and everything is just animated in javascript, so other than the scripts (which are cached), it doesn't download a huge amount of data.