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I have successfully extracted some temperature data from the grib files, created a basic data model in Google App Engine and a very basic site in Django. I use matplotlib to create isolines that are drawn with Google Maps Api. It’t not that beautiful but there is room for improvement ;)

Ever since I wrote my master thesis I have had an interest in weather. My thesis was about metadata updates in a real time database at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological institute. The thesis was mainly about weather stations that deliver observations used when running weather models. After my thesis I ended up as a consultant but for the last 2,5 years I’m back at SMHI doing various work, mostly backend. I have worked with real time deliveries of weather along with processing, visualisation etc. I worked with Diana (diana.met.no), a weather workstation software developed by Met.no.

Because I have a lot of things on my mind all the time and I think that some of them are worth sharing. I spend a lot of time coding and trying new technologies and I will try to collect pros and cons here along with pitfalls and other interesting things. Hopefully I will help at least one fellow system developer since I get a lot of help from blogs in my daily work.