Many companies offer customized, high resolution weather simulations that resolve those sorts of features. It's purely a cost vs value proposition - only a tiny sliver of users actually need this sort of spatial resolution, and typically over a very small area, so there is no reason for a global weather forecast model to be cranked up to it.
> Anyone on here know what happened to Atmo and if the tech is ever going to come back so people can use it? It's a travesty that this tech exists but isn't being used- a lot of lives would be saved if NOAA were using this already existing technology.
They're a thriving start-up as far as I've heard. Weather is a tough industry. Given that hourly-refreshing, high-resolution forecasts are freely available already from NOAA, I doubt that proprietary forecasts like these really move the needle in terms of protecting public life / property.
For sailboat racing I care about “micrometeorology” - e.g. things like which of two slightly different courses only 1/10th of a mile apart to the same destination will be windier 45 minutes from now?
Amazingly, these models are starting to be able to actually predict that, but I agree that not a lot of people care about that level of detail.
It depends on the type of sailing and where the race will be taking you. The participants in a race such as the Vendée Globe [0] are almost certainly using the likes of synoptic scale models like the GFS and ECMWF to plan their routes.
Yes for the vast majority, the immediate weather conditions can be ascertained by looking out the window.
I'd like more accuracy for the next 1-5 days as that's the time horizion I tend to use to plan to work outside on various projects, and am often frustrated by rain when the prior day's forecast didn't anticipate any. Or the opposite.
> Anyone on here know what happened to Atmo and if the tech is ever going to come back so people can use it? It's a travesty that this tech exists but isn't being used- a lot of lives would be saved if NOAA were using this already existing technology.
They're a thriving start-up as far as I've heard. Weather is a tough industry. Given that hourly-refreshing, high-resolution forecasts are freely available already from NOAA, I doubt that proprietary forecasts like these really move the needle in terms of protecting public life / property.