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Field Notes

What we are learning about forecasting, verification, and the strange things the atmosphere does when nobody is watching.

Forecasting 10 min read

Why Temperature Forecasts Go Wrong in the Mountains

Cold pools and smoothed terrain can make mountain temperatures hard to forecast. Here is what station records and elevation data can—and cannot—show, and what we do about it.

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A mountain valley at dawn filled with a pool of cold cloud lying below the surrounding peaks, with a forecast grid drawn over the terrain and stretched flat across the sky above it
Introductions

Weatherkind: A New Kind of Weather Intelligence

Why we started a weather company in the mountains of Colorado, how we bring the forecast down to the ground you stand on, and why we publish our own record.

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