| ▲ | sampli 4 hours ago | |
The only reason we have good weather data is because the government maintains stations in remote places all over the country. Who else would maintain that? | ||
| ▲ | imoverclocked 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> stations in remote places all over the country s/country/world/ There are many large projects to collect this information ranging from extremely specialized satellites to networks of ocean buoys. It turns out that weather is a global phenomenon and warming seas on the other side of the planet affect wherever you are. | ||
| ▲ | kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
You're not wrong, but I would like to point out that there is also the Civilian Weather Observer Program (CWOP) that is fed by a lot of private weather stations (the kind you can buy at Walmart of Amazon and put at your house). I believe the data is aggregated and averaged to account for variations in installation deficiencies, and used to inform/enhance the government maintained data feeds. | ||