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MeteoLatvia

Paul Thank you for explanation! 🙂

I once again wanted to say big thank you for such an amazing work you do, to make this amazing product from scratch and all of the patience that you have, to listen to our all suggestions and implement them, or at least make them in to-do list. I really appriciate it. 🙂

I'm a bit inactive for now, because of a lot of schoolwork, but I follow all news, and if there will be anything I can help - I will. 😉

MeteoLatvia

Paul

Hi! 🙂

Just wanted to share - till beginning of 2026, ECMWF model output will be available fully in GRIB2 format with Index files at native resolution of 9x9 km. It will run 4 times a day (00Z, *06Z, 12Z, *18Z)

*06Z and 18Z will be hibrid runs at only +90H, while 00Z and 12Z will be full +240H runs.

Information: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/focus/2024/migration-grib2-data-format-implications-users

Paul

MeteoLatvia Excellent news. Thanks for sharing.

MeteoLatvia

Paul Glad to help. Additional information that maybe is not directly relatable to the data itself, but will be in the near future:

There is now a project that was started in 2019 called "RODEO" (https://rodeo-project.eu/). The main goal for this is to make weather data across Europe united and homogenous, but also make it open-source. Till this pretty much of all data from European weather service where closed to public and even when it become more open, it was in many pre-customized data formats, that where not usable for broader public (including software developers). For example - weather radar scan volumes where available at ODIM HDF5 format, which is not really great to work with. With this project all European weather radars will be available in one place in NetCDF format and with all parameters (Reflectivity, Velocity etc.). Moreover - it will contain data about weather warnings in Europe and as mentioned earlier - ECMWF model data in GRIB2 + Index files.

I will keep updating this post, as more information comes along, but I think it is great news for those living in Europe.

MeteoLatvia

@Paul , I just wanted to share, that Estonian weather agency is now sharing the operational data from both of their weather radars in open access format here: https://avaandmed.keskkonnaportaal.ee/dhs/Active/documentList.aspx?ViewId=c2ea43b7-09c4-4afb-b955-aa5862e46c0f (probably good to use Google Translate / page translation).
These are full radar volumes. This is a quick look on what the data will look like once it comes out for rest of the Europe via the "RODEO" project (the one I mentioned in my email to you). Just for test, if it is managable to implement it and preparing for the data format.

Paul

MeteoLatvia Excellent. I am still in static mapping data preparation/rendering code phase and was just today contemplating the division of datafeed licenses based on region, in that context, to enable higher res imagery/elevation mapping over region, so I don't have to factor-in worst case bandwidth costs into the price for global data when people are mostly per region. Maybe 1 or 2 degree global base tiles and then region-specific for deeper, both hires mapping data and realtime datasets. Lots to look at. Very interested in South American and European regions as likely most proximate non-CONUS specialized datafeed offerings, based on availability of public data, demand, and linguistic factors.

MeteoLatvia

Paul
This is so awesome to hear! Hopefully, we are going to receive some teasers soon? 😃
Either way - I would be happy to discuss and help with data for European and surroundings once the time comes. 😉

MeteoLatvia

Hi, @Paul ! 👋
Didn't want to make a new topic, so using this one.
I wanted to take a moment and wish you and your family a joyful Christmas, filled with happiness and heartful moments. 🤗🎄🎅🌟 May this holiday season bring you just enough rest and a source of energy for new achievements. 🙌😊 You have worked and continue to do it so hard, that I really wish to take a breath and enjoy the time. Thank you so much for all you do!

Paul

MeteoLatvia Thank you very much Martin. It has been an intense initial 15 months of development and doubtlessly an even more intense remaining 11.5 months, but I have never been more optimistic about the project. Merry Christmas to you and looking forward to a great 2025.

MeteoLatvia

Just FYI @Paul - we already speaked about the "RODEO" project which is going to open up a lot of high-priority meteorological data from Europe in open-access format for everyone. This might also be important consideration for WSV3 Tactical (or at least after it's stable version is released). So at this point the plans are that by end of 2025 or latest by the spring of 2026 via the "RODEO" project a one-stop-shop application called "MeteoGate" will be released where all of the APIs for:

Surface observation (SYNOP) data
Weather warning data (likely in shapefile format)
Weather radar data (for each site in full volumes)
Climate data (maybe not the most relatable for our case)

will be availabe in single, homogeneus place. I think that might be one of the most imporant breakthroughs (in European context) towards fully open meteorological data for everyone and from everyone (by that I mean - most of the EU countries).

For now I can already provide few resources that just give general insight into this project, but trought this year there will most likely be more news, so I will update you @Paul in case you are interested:

"RODEO" website: https://rodeo-project.eu/
"EUMETNET" article on this: https://www.eumetnet.eu/data-access/federated-european-meteo-hydrological-data-infrastructure-femdi/

P.S. At this point many of EU countries are already sharing their data. For example - Estonia shares their full radar volumes: https://avaandmed.keskkonnaportaal.ee/dhs/Active/documentList.aspx?ViewId=c2ea43b7-09c4-4afb-b955-aa5862e46c0f Maybe this can help for testing purposes to see the format specifics for Europe in the early-data integration phase of WSV3 Tactial. I would be happy to stay in touch with you Paul and provide any necessary information if needed (and if I can find one 😃)), because I can really understand that it is not easy to find (and to be honest maybe even is not your priority) useful datasets for European comunity that uses WSV3 too. 🙂

Paul

MeteoLatvia Excellent. WSV3 Tactical will be primed in 2026 for rapid integration of international datasets and creation of region-specific licenses with highly efficient integrations of raw data sources, streamed over our bandwidth-optimized progressive loading special rendering formats, such as hierarchical delta tile compression on raster data. I am very happy to see the European meteorological community make these steps in open, public-domain realtime data access.

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