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[–] featured@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wonder if there’s any sort of alternative, community weather system that is run for the public good. I’m envisioning an open source ecosystem where people buy commodity weather instruments (barometers, thermometers, anemometers) and then connect them to a program which feeds them to a larger decentralized network. Then people could make visuals of the conglomerate data to see low pressure and high pressure areas, track storms, etc. If that backbone existed you could also create a distributed computational model like we see in projects like ‘folding from home’ in order to create forecast maps. Just spitballing but if anybody knows of programs that do any part of this I’d love to hear about them

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://www.weather.gov/cle/CWOP

It is likely networks like this will be adopted by a university or volunteer should the need arise. Search the keyword "citizen science."