weatherlinguist

This post started with a chat with a friend.

I keep hearing "the model is learning the physics" from machine learning people talking about AI weather models.

I am two months into a sabbatical year, poking at ideas, and one of them has already turned into something I can point at: skaneweather.com.

I have recently been reading Nassim Taleb's "Skin in the Game", one of the books from the "Incerto" series, and found the whole thing quite illuminating.

Why northern Chile is flooding in 2026, and what El Niño has to do with it Northern Chile sits close to home for me.

An animation worth copying Pierre Chevillard posted an animation for France's slice of tomorrow's eclipse: a map dotted with cities, each one carrying a small icon of the Sun with the Moon's black disc sliding across it, ticking forward through the evening

A continental heatwave chart, zoomed down to one city with DANRA It's been a brutal summer.

It sounds a bit strange at first: the same satellite signals used for positioning can also tell us something about rain.

If you know Seinfeld, you may remember the episode "The Butter Shave," where Puddy spends a long flight simply staring at the seat in front of him.

GNSS Signal Delays and Atmospheric Information Every time you glance at your smartphone to navigate a city street or check your car's "GPS", you are participating in a feat of modern geodesy.

Today marks the official release of a project I’ve been working hard on over the past few months: the next generation of the Copernicus Arctic Regional Reanalysis CARRA.

Introduction In a previous post, we developed a simple model to forecast solar power generation.