Welcome to the new PolarWx!
After yet another website change and a few years of inactivity, I'm bringing the blog back online - with a few updates on future plans.
Latest Status of PolarWx #
After a period of time where PolarWx was only two standalone pages (realtime models and tropical cyclones), the website is now gradually taking shape again with a proper homepage, a brand new realtime tropical cyclone page, and for the time being the previous version of the realtime model page is running in limited capacity. I also brought back the website blog, which was intermittently updated several years ago and which I migrated some posts from my old website to this one.
The tropical cyclone page is nearly complete at this point after several months of intermittent work. In addition to realtime storm and aircraft reconnaissance activity, it now features a comprehensive archive of all storms globally, GOES-R series satellite data and radar for select storms, and seasonal aggregate statistics.
Future Plans for PolarWx #
With the realtime tropical cyclone page fully functional, the next step of the PolarWx revamp is a planned redesign of the realtime model page, plus adding some long-lost features such as my northeast US snowstorm archive.
At this point, the website is being hosted on a server with relatively limited storage and compute capacity. Given these factors, I will be making some major changes to the models, maps and projections displayed. While the final details are still being worked out, the revamped model page will be primarily focused around probabilistic ensemble forecast tools, while still keeping some deterministic models. Expected completion time right now is around November 2026.
Blog posts will intermittently resume as well as time allows, and as interesting weather phenomena and events present themselves along the way - stay tuned for a blog post on the recent early season nor'easter.