[cryptoz]

Yes, Sunshine is running WRF!

And yes it would be great to have all these sensor readings available to NOAA, Environment Canada, ECMWF, and everywhere. I have made lots of progress in getting them to talk about it, but it's a long road before any government starts using this data in its own NWP models.

[kuya]

you're probably already aware of this, but there is some US legislation trying to open up commercial data to gov't entities:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1561...

there's some stuff being written this year as well for the side that i work (space). with all the upcoming sensor gaps, they're looking at alternative ways to cover.