We're excited to announce upgrades to the Spire High-Resolution Forecast!
Our 3 km domain now extends farther into key tropical development and tracking zones, including the Gulf, Caribbean, and western Atlantic.
With more radio occultation data, observations, atmospheric layers, and physics upgrades, near-surface forecast accuracy is enhanced—boosting operational foresight.
Watch James Van Fleet's quick explainer: https://lnkd.in/ga_Ntvpz#WeatherForecasting#HighResolution#BusinessIntelligence#InSpire
Hello, friends. I'm Spire
meteorologist James Van Fleet. Hope your day has
been a good one. Have some exciting news today
from Spire Weather and Climate regarding our
high-resolution model. And today's video talks about
this where we have actually expanded the domain a little bit farther to the west and south. So this is picking up
more tropical areas, which will be of huge benefit
to those tracking tropical systems, depressions, storms, and hurricanes in the
months ahead as we transition into summer
here in a couple of months. So it is an exciting day to see
this covering all of the Gulf of Mexico and into portions of
the Caribbean and the eastern side of the US into
the western Atlantic. So a little more real
estate will help us out. And remember, this model
is a three kilometer model, goes out to six days in
an hour-by-hour increment, and it is a larger domain. So specifically, we can capture more tropical events
and forecasting in our modeling. Plus, there'll be more RO
data conditions put into this that'll help sharpen
those models, and the physics upgrades will enhance
near-surface forecasts as well. So several things to just help
continue getting our models better and better. Already, I feel they're some
of the best in the world, if not the best, due to the
satellite constellation. That overhead
eliminates the data gap. So these models that Spire has
are already initialized with more complete and better data
than what you see around in the global models and
other private sectors. So just to show you again
this huge region that we are seeing covering a larger expansion, but just wanna show you
as well in our high-resolution forecast because a lot of times we don't
hit the brakes and show you this, but just to look at all the
different parameters that you can see from total
precipitation, cloud cover, of course, temperature,
dew point, humidity, different layers of cloud cover, shortwave radiation at
the surface, pressure, different types
of precipitation. We've got, of course, the upper-level air to check
mid and upper-level troughs and ridges in our jet streams. Thunderstorm will give you
our severe weather parameters, everything from
velocity, helicity, storm motion, hail
diameter in the forecast, as well as CAPE and downdraft
convective available potential energy to lift a
condensation level. And then in the derived, you'll
see more of our five hundred, eight hundred fifty, and then thousand to five
hundred millibar thickness anomalies and heights. So just wanted to give you a
quick walk-through of what some of this looks like. Again, we bring up a
lot of the parameters, but just to give you a visual
of what you can see within the high-resolution model. So I hope you have
a fantastic day. I'll see you soon with another
fresh edition from Spire Weather and Climate. Take care.
