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by JZL003 1208 days ago
For any other person who wants more advanced weather, I like meteo-blue's multimodel graphs https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/forecast/multimodel/tex... Much more information dense, if less pretty but it's helpful to see a bunch of models to get a sense of the uncertainty. It's what meteorologists I know do often, and you can quickly learn which models are short vs long-term and uncheck them

I do wish I could make my own graphs but parsing all the different weather models is a pain, maybe there's some API I don't know about or an open source consistent parser

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Instead of showing multiple models, I prefer they run the same model multiple times with slightly different starting conditions. And then show error (probability) bands.
Also meteograms are a nice consise way of getting a sense of the weather

https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/forecast/meteogramweb/t...

When I look at science data I don't look at lists of numbers, I don't know why that's always how weather is presented visually

100% - I love https://www.windy.com for this very reason. Their full meteogram gives you a really succinct/concise representation for all the data it's showing every 3h for 5+ days (wind, temp, dew cloud cover/levels, etc).

That said.. Windy's precipitation forecast figures haven't always been great around here.