Tempest News & Weather Related Articles

Poquoson, VA – WeatherFlow, in collaboration with the Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, is studying how to improve computer forecast model performance at wind turbine heights. The project seeks to develop a wind monitoring and forecasting system for offshore wind energy, particularly across the coastal Mid-Atlantic region. In order to collect wind speed and directional […]

Poquoson, VA – WeatherFlow continues to provide data to the Department of Defense via The Defense Threat Agency (DTRA) in 2014. The data feed was requested by DTRA after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Since 2001 WeatherFlow has delivered a continuous data stream. The data has proven itself to be of high-utility for hazardous plume

New Smyrna Beach, FL – WeatherFlow developers recently completed a new forecast module for sea surface currents. By request, developers began by adding forecasts of near surface water currents for specific North American waterways and ports of call. These data-sets produce forecasts at a resolution as fine as 30 meters. Modeled sea surface currents are

London, ON – In late November, WeatherFlow sensor maintenance technicians completed the installation of the first new weather station across the Great Lakes region in several years. This new station, located in Mitchell’s Bay, Ontario, was installed, in large part, thanks to local support. The Mitchell’s Bay sensor is the third WeatherFlow observing station on

San Francisco, CA – With the thrilling race finish now a memory, much of the evidence of the 34th America’s Cup is gone from the San Francisco Bay area. What does remain, though, is the continued challenge of understanding and forecasting wind behavior for the area. To help address these challenges, wind observation sites installed