Regarding the new dawn of weather forecasting

It's not the size of the wand, it's the magic in the magician

These days, I spend my mornings doing deep dives into the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, looking for relevant business-related weather stories.

I also regularly scan LinkedIn and other relevant social media sources. Although I still have an account on the site formerly known as Twitter, I rarely use it because it’s gotten … gross.

There’s coffee involved as well, and, of course, wrangling Benji if an ill-informed bunny or squirrel makes the mistake of breaking into our backyard.

At any rate, I came across the article (pasted below) on LinkedIn, and it resonated with me … bigly!

The authors (Sam and Tomás), who I don’t know, did a great job articulating the barriers regarding the status quo of the current state of commercial weather enterprises.

I share their ”healthy dose of skepticism” about the commercial value of raw weather data. I’ve been there, done that, and, yes, I have (more than one) T-shirt.

I’ve summarized below, from their post, the core four reasons for “our” sk…