[OC] We built an ocean and weather visualization web app with live buoy data, global weather models, and our own nearshore simulations and surf forecasts
[OC] We built an ocean and weather visualization web app with live buoy data, global weather models, and our own nearshore simulations and surf forecasts
Hi all – we’ve been building this web app because we wanted a single place to visually combine live buoy data and weather models, and also host our own surf forecasts and nearshore simulations. We are continually trying to make things better – feel free to send us a message! You can explore it at https://seastate.ai
Data Sources: We pull NOAA GFS cycles every 6 hours from NOMADS (nomads.ncep.noaa.gov). Tide info from NOAA CO-OPS (ap.tideandcurrents.noaa.gov). Buoy data from NOAA NDBC (ndbc.noaa.gov). We run our own local nearshore simulations and surf forecasts once daily off the 00z GFS cycle.
Tools: Coded in Python. Frontend is TypeScript/React/Vite. Mapbox used for globe.
Question: It looks like the snow and precip forecasts do not overlap much. Is “precip” specifically rain?
cyberentomology on
What does this offer that sites such as Windy don’t already? Windy is pretty damned good, but if you’ve managed to improve on it, I’m all ears.
DiscontentEditor on
High effort post here. Great work.
5043090 on
Feom a friend that doesn’t do reddit: *I’m looking forward to playing with this to see how it does. It says it’s running off GFS. It doesn’t say that it’s running off of the AIGFS model, which reportedly has been more accurate. I realize the site is .ai but don’t know that means they are using AIGFS data. Do you?*
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Hi all – we’ve been building this web app because we wanted a single place to visually combine live buoy data and weather models, and also host our own surf forecasts and nearshore simulations. We are continually trying to make things better – feel free to send us a message! You can explore it at https://seastate.ai
Data Sources: We pull NOAA GFS cycles every 6 hours from NOMADS (nomads.ncep.noaa.gov). Tide info from NOAA CO-OPS (ap.tideandcurrents.noaa.gov). Buoy data from NOAA NDBC (ndbc.noaa.gov). We run our own local nearshore simulations and surf forecasts once daily off the 00z GFS cycle.
Tools: Coded in Python. Frontend is TypeScript/React/Vite. Mapbox used for globe.
Very cool. The standard for this viz is still [https://earth.nullschool.net/](https://earth.nullschool.net/), IMO
Question: It looks like the snow and precip forecasts do not overlap much. Is “precip” specifically rain?
What does this offer that sites such as Windy don’t already? Windy is pretty damned good, but if you’ve managed to improve on it, I’m all ears.
High effort post here. Great work.
Feom a friend that doesn’t do reddit: *I’m looking forward to playing with this to see how it does. It says it’s running off GFS. It doesn’t say that it’s running off of the AIGFS model, which reportedly has been more accurate. I realize the site is .ai but don’t know that means they are using AIGFS data. Do you?*
What do I tell her?