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Comment by drusenko

I was initially very excited because this data is not nearly as it should be, especially historical forecasts. However, your pricing model seems to seriously limit the potential uses.

I would imagine that most people who have a serious interest in weather forecasting and would be target users of this service don’t think in terms of number of points but rather in lat/lon bounds, resolution, and number of hours & days for the predictions. I imagine they would also like to download a GRIB and not a CSV.

Your pricing for any large enough area to be useful presumably gets somewhat prohibitive, eg covering the North Pacific (useful for West Coast modeling) at 0.25 deg resolution might be ~300k data points per hour if I am doing my math right?

parent drusenko 1 year ago

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