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CartoSky Public Beta is Live

https://cartosky.com

After several months of development, I'm excited to have you all check out CartoSky.

CartoSky is a map-first weather platform focused on interactive model, forecast, and observation analysis. Everything is built around a fast weather viewer - I originally started building it because I wanted a faster, cleaner, more modern way to analyze weather data without constantly switching between multiple sites.

The current model lineup includes HRRR, GFS, NAM (which will soon be replaced by the RRFS), ECMWF, NBM, AIFS, and AIGFS, plus GEFS and EPS on the ensemble side. Forecasts include NDFD, SPC, CPC, and WPC. Obs coverage includes MRMS radar and precip, satellite, NWS hazards, and current analysis. There's also a Forecast page where you can pull hourly, 7-day, and extended forecasts as well as NWS AFDs for any location.

TWF Integration

One of the key features that helped inspire CartoSky was tighter integration with The Weather Forums. You can share directly to any forum thread straight from the map - current view, model, and forecast hour included. No screenshots to upload, and you can draft your post directly in the share dialog. You'll need a CartoSky account and your TWF account linked under Integrations in your account settings. Takes about a minute to set up.

What's Coming

The beta is about getting the core experience solid but over the next couple months here are some things I plan to add:

* Near term: NWS warnings overlay on radar, expanded satellite bands, extended SPC and CPC outlooks, additional models

* Medium term: GIF/animation export, model comparison tools, model consensus and probabilities, meteograms

* Longer term: Advanced event analysis tools, expanded sharing options, and additional forecast products

Feedback

This is a beta release. While I've spent a lot of time testing, there will undoubtedly be bugs and things I haven't thought of, especially on mobile as the site was designed with desktops in mind. As the solo developer on this, your feedback is genuinely what I need to polish things up before the busy season starts this fall/winter. If you run into issues, have performance concerns, or want to suggest a feature, please let me know either in this thread or hit the Feedback button available throughout the site. Any feedback is welcome - positive or negative!

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The thing about Rogers Pass is that I can find no such weather station at the pass and the one that is fairly close to the pass and has the name Rogers Pass is actually quite mild, especially by Montana standards:

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?mt7159

Although Rogers Pass supposedly recorded -70 on January 20, 1954, the next coldest reading I can find in the region is a much warmer -46.

Although places like West Yellowstone or Hebgen Dam do have extreme winter temperatures at times, the area around Rogers Pass seems much warmer in winter and is surprising that it would hold the Montana (and Lower 48) records.

Is there any other weather data available for Rogers Pass?

Is it possible that the -70 reading isn't valid?

A high percentage of these had widespread or significant lowland snow in December, and several had major bouts of Arctic air that month. Some of the older analogs were also very cold in January, but obviously that's been a much tougher nut to crack recently (although baby steps have been made).

Overall, the argument for a front-loaded winter looks about as strong as I've seen in awhile.

Here's the preceding November composite for those winters.

Hot Dogs Everywhere

It started subtly, the way it always does. Someone pointed out—again—that the cold was still out past ten days. Someone else replied that it had been out there yesterday too, and the day before that, and somehow that felt worse now. The thread slowed for a minute, then exploded. Complaints stacked faster than maps. The GFS got accused of kicking the can, then accused of lying, then accused of personal bias against the Pacific Northwest. Little hot dog avatars began popping up next to usernames like warning lights on a dashboard.

Edmonds Crusty went first. Full hot dog. Every post was a variation of here we go again, south winds always win, and nobody ever learns. He quoted old busts, reminded everyone how many times the cold had died right at the doorstep, and insisted that anyone still watching this was setting themselves up for pain. SpaceChaser69 wasn’t far behind, lamenting how the PSCZ always looked perfect until it slid north at the last second, tagging him with cold rain while everyone else posted snow pics. His avatar flipped to a hot dog and stayed there. Scottie Scheffler’s Sex Drive piled on from Eugene, complaining about eternal 35-degree misery and asking what it took to get a real winter south of Salem. Another hot dog appeared.

High Desert Pat jumped in loud and irritated, swearing the models were clueless and that reality didn’t match what they were showing. He posted twice in a row, then three times, each one angrier than the last, insisting the cold was obvious if people would just stop trusting garbage guidance. His avatar turned into a hot dog mid-rant, which only made things worse. FairFuck echoed him, less angry but just as dismissive, pointing out that at least Central Oregon would probably still do fine when everything else busted. GoldRisesHandy tried to talk elevation, but nobody was in the mood. His post got ignored, then quoted angrily by someone else, and suddenly his name was sporting a hot dog too.

Domebuster watched it unfold and stayed mostly quiet. When he did post, it was a short, dry line about how day-10 winters were undefeated and how everyone needed to breathe. It didn’t help. Someone accused him of going soft. Someone else said he’d been wrong before. He didn’t engage. Not worth it. Millibar Creeper kept posting runs anyway, one after another, letting the data roll while hot dogs multiplied around him. Cabin John dropped a dense wall of acronyms that nobody understood and nobody wanted to, which somehow inflamed things further. Half the replies weren’t even about the weather anymore—just frustration dressed up as analysis.

By the time the next update rolled in, the thread was a sea of hot dog avatars. Everyone was miserable, everyone was invested, and everyone insisted they were done caring. Buoy Fog cracked a joke about the forum turning into a concession stand, which earned a few laughs before he, too, picked up a hot dog for “minimizing legitimate concerns.” SleetScheisser tried to stay positive and got labeled a weenie for being unrealistic. Even that calm, measured post people thought might be Park Nelsen got side-eyed for “underselling” the pain.

And yet, when the next run started loading, the complaining paused. Just for a moment. Everyone refreshed. Hot dogs and all.

How will California weather or lack thereof continue to bore us over the next 2 years? Anymore tropical storm direct hits or record breaking May Gray and June Gloom spells to come? Will El Nino deliver some nice juicy storms or will it wimp out on us? 

Technically in Bend, but I am much closer to Tumalo.  Moved over here for a new job, my old one was outsourced a couple years ago.  I was told Mt. Bachelor was renowned for its skiing but I haven't seen it yet.