https://digital-geography.com/cloud-gis ... ther-data/
We are going to use weather forecast data from the Global Forecast System (GFS) of the USA’s National Weather Service (NWS).
GFS is a global numerical weather prediction system that is run 4 times a day on a powerful super computer. The forecast data is released under an OpenData licence and is accessible directly at the following address
http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/
However if you navigate to the above link you will be confronted with data files in some difficult to use scientific formats such as GRIB (Gridded Binary). Fortunately the GFS forecast is also available on an ERDDAP server. ERDDAP is Cloud based data broker designed to act as the intermediary between developers/users and scientific data formats (particularly gridded data). Please see my previous post for an introduction to ERDDAP.
For Sea winds, see: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/blended-sea-winds
The Blended Sea Winds dataset synthesizes observations from multiple satellites (up to six satellites since June 2002) to create gridded wind speeds. Blending the data fills in the temporal and spatial data gaps present in each source dataset, and reduces subsampling aliases and random errors. These products were developed in response to the increasing demand for higher resolution global datasets, and can be used to improve the accuracy of ocean and weather conditions forecasts. Please note these are research products, and thus, are experimental in nature.
@V12/lego: Regarding AloftWx, what is the issue - is it installing/shipping/configuring/enabling the tool ? If so, would it help to have another discussion how to turn this into an actual fgfs addon and extend fgfs accordingly, so that the whole thing can be executed by a Nasal addon in a background worker thread to do all the fetching/processing, for a more seamless user experience - analogous to how terrasync and fgcom are integrated these days, rather than being standalone/separate tools ?