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Relative to the prediction side (which Dark Sky is arguably most known for): Every day, NOAA collects billions of data points (20 TB) of data about the planet's weather, and throws it into their supercomputers to make a forecast. NOAA has the 49th and 50th fastest computers in the world. In fact, the two major applications of the original supercomputers were nuclear physics and the weather.

They make it all available at https://www.noaa.gov/nodd/datasets, but as noted - since the data is so incredibly large and NOAAs already running stats on it... you can't really outcompute them.

[There are very very few CS applications with both a) more computing power and b) more real world impact than predicting weather and hurricanes. Maybe cancer research.]

20TB source: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/data-dive-five-noaa-databas...