An avid and life-long meteorologist. A storm that rolled through Gaithersburg, Maryland, hooked him on weather when he was a kid. Vermont for the degree. Now he directs ocean-routing operations, moving cargo across the Pacific and Atlantic on the strength of a forecast. Mostly gales and tropical systems — the slow weather ships plan around days out.
About
A working meteorologist’s marine dashboard — gales, tropical systems, and the slow-weather charts that ship routing turns on. Built as a gift.
The Meteorologist
The Site
Every panel and every link on this site points back to a NOAA, NASA, or academic source. No commercial data, no API keys, no ads. The visible cards are watched stations and curated tools; the search box ties it all together. The dashboard is built to load fast and stay quiet, the way a ship’s bridge does at 0300.
Data & Credits
Everything here runs on public and open data — no commercial feeds, no API keys, no ads. Credits and licences:
- Weather & ocean models
- Open-Meteo forecast, marine, and ERA5 reanalysis over NOAA and ECMWF open data (CC-BY 4.0).
- Observations
- NOAA — National Weather Service, National Data Buoy Center, CO-OPS tides & currents, National Hurricane Center, and the OSMC global in-situ feed drawn from the WMO Global Telecommunication System. US Government works, public domain.
- Tropical cyclone tracks
- Active-storm forecast tracks worldwide — NOAA’s National Hurricane Center for the Atlantic and eastern/central Pacific, and the US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center for the western Pacific, Indian Ocean, and southern hemisphere — via Esri’s aggregated Active Hurricanes layer.
- Radar
- Iowa Environmental Mesonet (Iowa State University), from NWS NEXRAD.
- Ship routing
- Sea routes computed with searoute-ts (MIT) over the Eurostat searoute maritime network (EUPL-1.2), built on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s global shipping-lane network. Port, vessel, and trade-lane reference figures are compiled facts from public and industry sources.
- Mapping & rendering
- globe.gl and three.js (MIT), Leaflet (BSD), and NASA Blue Marble Earth imagery (public domain).
- Type
- Cormorant Garamond, Spectral, Inter, and IBM Plex Mono, served by Google Fonts (open licences).
A forecast instrument, not a navigation tool — non-commercial, and not for operational routing decisions.