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weather

vr.tr.weather · XCT.STA

Let an agent handle weather with place, time, source and uncertainty, give official warnings first, and separate weather from climate.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle weather with place, time, source and uncertainty, give official warnings first, and separate weather from climate.

The state of the atmosphere at a place and time, in terms of temperature, precipitation, wind, cloud, humidity and pressure; space weather refers to conditions in near-Earth space.

What it is for: Planning daily life, transport, farming and safety.

It can be observe and measure it; forecast it; warn about hazardous weather; plan around it.

Distinguishing features

State at a time and place, unlike climate

Forecasts are probabilistic

Official warnings are issued by national services

Space weather affects satellites and power grids

What it looks like

Sky, clouds, rain, snow, sunshine and wind; forecasts on maps and apps.

Physical character

temperature range at the surface: -89 to 57 degrees C - recorded extremes

How it is recognised

Observations and forecasts with times and places

Warnings with levels and colours

Weather lore is not a forecast

Related models

includes - phenomena

shower, fog, flood-causing rain

is confused with - long-term average

climate

can cause - extremes

natural disaster

is measured with - instruments

weather station

In practice

Families and kinds

precipitation, wind, temperature, cloud

severe weather: storms, heat waves, cold spells

marine weather and heatwaves

space weather

Identifiers

WMO station id five digits observation stations

CAP alert Common Alerting Protocol message warnings

Standards and regulation

WMO technical regulations

National weather service warnings

Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

Failure modes and hazards

Ignoring official warnings

Reading probability forecasts as certainty

Heat and cold harm

Out-of-date forecasts

Also called

weather lorespace weatherheat wavemarine heatwaveanticyclonic rotationice dayrain and windType of climate in Nigeriaweather in New Mexicofall of precipitationclear weatherWeather in Arakanticycloneapril weatherdrizzleweather of Minnesotaweather in Belgraderainy weathernice weathersnowy weatherstormy weatherNawwhSnow in Russiadynamic high-pressure areaheat domefreezing drizzle

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.weather

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Conditions Current weather.

Current conditions need place and time.

Observation

Measured now.

Observation

Current observations.

  1. What are the current conditions, where and when, from which station? provenance
  2. How representative is the station? boundary

Elements

Temperature, wind, rain.

Elements

Weather elements.

  1. What are the temperature, wind and precipitation? measurement
  2. What does it feel like with wind chill or humidity? measurement
Forecast What is coming.

Forecasts are uncertain.

Prediction

Forecast details.

Forecast

Forecast and issuer.

  1. What is forecast, by which service, issued when? provenance
  2. How confident is it? measurement

Probability

Chances.

Probability

Probabilities.

  1. What does the stated probability mean? definition
  2. How should it inform plans? action
Warnings Hazardous weather.

Official warnings come first.

Alerts

Warning levels.

Alerts

Active warnings.

  1. Which official warnings are in force here? provenance
  2. What level, and until when? measurement

Actions

What to do.

Actions

Protective actions.

  1. What should people do under this warning? action
  2. Who is most at risk? boundary
Context Climate and records.

Context helps interpret weather.

Climate

Normal conditions.

Climate

How this compares with normal.

  1. How does this compare with the climate normal? measurement
  2. Is it a record? provenance

Space weather

Solar activity.

Space weather

Space weather conditions.

  1. Is there a space weather alert? provenance
  2. What could it affect? boundary

What the second pass must settle

  • Should weather elements be separate entries?
  • How should agents present live warnings?
  • How should space weather be linked?
Draft as JSON