Weather It Is (What Was and What Will Be)

Good Morning:

While it is true that I married my wife -- and the reasons are many -- did I mention that it didn't hurt that she was well respected in the town?  I was proud to add my name -- "Lynn" to the Romano name in Efrat.  But, then it happened.

It started when she became "Geveret" Lynn, instead of Geveret Romano.  It didn't help that I kept my last name -- although Barry Romano is a better stage-name than Barry Lynn.  Anyway, she soon began to question the wisdom of her decision, and things only became worse when a few years later I started writing a weather blog.

I started the blog because I couldn't find a decent (or rather accurate) weather forecast in Israel.  Of course, I could only wave my hands at the weather maps that always seemed to indicate snow or some storm that never materialised.

Our forecasts took a turn for the better when I bought my first "super-computer" and "Weather It Is" started a couple years later (in 2006).  We started making weather forecasts on our own -- and  we started using a grid-resolution that enabled us to see the many details in the weather patterns that affect Israel. For instance, did you know that Israel has 13 different weather climates, including a sea-shore and high mountains?  You probably did, but all of these variations in altitude and vegetation (or lack there of) make for some very interesting and very hard to forecast weather.   Moreover, Israel is at the nexus of different weather regimes, and we can go from summer to winter in just a day.

And, so it continued.  By adding new technology (and utilising improvements in publicly available data from the National Center for Environmental Prediction) our forecasts got better and better, and now we're know as the place to go for accurate weather forecasts.  And the wife?  She still wonders if she made the right decision, but she is proud to be the wife of Efrat's (really Israel's) weatherman.

We'll be making some changes in the Weather It Is (Israel) site in order to ensure (God-Willing) the continuation of these weather pages.

We're also looking for new investment in order to expand our forecasts services overseas. In addition to our "FlashForecast" and "Best-Forecast" services, we forecast wildfires using technology that enables non-interactions between the wildfire and weather.

In the meantime, enjoy the beautiful Lag-B'Omer weather.  After a couple of really nice days the atmosphere will be cooling off a bit (both at lower and mid-to-upper levels), so there will some clouds and possibly some localised showers (including a rumble of thunder).

Barry Lynn