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Many companies offer customized, high resolution weather simulations that resolve those sorts of features. It's purely a cost vs value proposition - only a tiny

Many companies offer customized, high resolution weather simulations that resolve those sorts of features. It's purely a cost vs value proposition - only a tiny sliver of users actually need this sort of spatial resolution, and typically over a very small area, so there is no reason for a global weather forecast model to be cranked up to it. > Anyone on here know what happened to Atmo and if the tech is ever going to come back so people can use it? It's a travesty that this tech exists but isn't being used- a lot of lives would be saved if NOAA were using this already existing technology. They're a thriving start-up as far as I've heard. Weather is a tough industry. Given that hourly-refreshing, high-resolution forecasts are freely available already from NOAA, I doubt that proprietary forecasts like these really move the needle in terms of protecting public life / property.

SoftTalker 2y ago
Yes for the vast majority, the immediate weather conditions can be ascertained by looking out the window. I'd like more accuracy for the next 1-5 days as that's the time horizion I tend to use to plan to work outside on various projects, and am often frustrated by rain when the prior day's forecast didn't anticipate any. Or the opposite.
_yb2s 2y ago
For sailboat racing I care about “micrometeorology” - e.g. things like which of two slightly different courses only 1/10th of a mile apart to the same destination will be windier 45 minutes from now? Amazingly, these models are starting to be able to actually predict that, but I agree that not a lot of people care about that level of detail.
- ls65536 2y ago
  It depends on the type of sailing and where the race will be taking you. The participants in a race such as the Vendée Globe [0] are almost certainly using the likes of synoptic scale models like the GFS and ECMWF to plan their routes. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%A9e_Globe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%A9e_Globe

SoftTalker 2y ago

Yes for the vast majority, the immediate weather conditions can be ascertained by looking out the window. I'd like more accuracy for the next 1-5 days as that's the time horizion I tend to use to plan to work outside on various projects, and am often frustrated by rain when the prior day's forecast didn't anticipate any. Or the opposite.

_yb2s 2y ago

For sailboat racing I care about “micrometeorology” - e.g. things like which of two slightly different courses only 1/10th of a mile apart to the same destination will be windier 45 minutes from now? Amazingly, these models are starting to be able to actually predict that, but I agree that not a lot of people care about that level of detail.

ls65536 2y ago
It depends on the type of sailing and where the race will be taking you. The participants in a race such as the Vendée Globe [0] are almost certainly using the likes of synoptic scale models like the GFS and ECMWF to plan their routes. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%A9e_Globe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%A9e_Globe