Weather forecasting Archives

What’s the weather?

Chandra Clarke
May 25, 2014
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Level 3 - Web-based Citizen Science

Pity your local weather forecaster. Rarely praised when correct, often vilified when wrong, weather forecasting is one of the most thankless jobs around. There’s at least one company that hopes to change all of that. Cumulonimbus Software, a Canadian company led by Jacob Sheehy and Phil Jones, has teamed up with Cliff Mass, a University of Washington […]

Social weather reporting

Chandra Clarke
September 3, 2013
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Level 4 - Citizen Science Apps / Level 5 - Get Outdoors for Citizen Science

Everyone likes to talk about the weather, and everyone loves to complain about weather reports. And now you have a chance to do that and help improve those predictions via your smartphone. The folks behind an app called Weathermob claim that there are just 40,000 weather-observing stations for the whole of Earth that have the […]