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duanem

85 karma · joined August 3, 2017

Developer of Flowx weather app.
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duanem··on Misinterpreting hurricane forecasts
BTW, these are ensemble models for the NOAA GFS (FV3) and CMC GDPS models. Ensemble models are where the starting conditions of weather simulation is perturbed slightly and the simulations re-solved. They do this 20-odd times and you end up with 20-odd tracks. So for both GFS and GDPS there will give 40-odd paths.

Sometimes, it can be interesting how the cluster of GFS tracks may differ from the GDPS tracks.

duanem··on Misinterpreting hurricane forecasts
I've just implemented this in Flowx[1], the Android weather app I develop.

I have the "spaghetti bundle" but it was a major improvement when I added dots indicating the location of the hurricane center with time, as shown in this YouTube video[2]

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enzuredigi...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I46IJcnf_bY

duanem··on NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model
My favorite is Flowx[0]. Disclaimer: I'm bias since I'm the developer.

Globally, we have GFS (FV3) and GDPS in the free version, and DWD ICON in pro.

For north America, we have NAM 12km, NAM 3km, HRRR, RDPS, HRDPS in Pro

For Europe, we have DWD ICON EU, DWD COSMO-D2, ARPEGE, AROME and HIRLAM in Pro.

If you double-tapping of a graph, you can compare the forecasts quite easily.

Sorry there is no iOS or web version, nor ECMWF (it's too costly).

[0] https://flowx.io

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