an easter-egg wing of ozarkintelligence.com
The Ozarks Observatory
Five live windows into the place we work from — sky, storm, terrain, wind, and one glorious cable-TV flashback. Everything runs on open data and open source, hosted right here. No keys, no vendors, no tracking.
The Living Ozarks
The logo in the site header is a live model of the sky over Springfield — real sun, real moon, real weather, real river. This page opens it up to full size and shows every equation.
Open-Meteo · USGS Water Services · NOAA solar math
Local on the 8s
A faithful WeatherStar 4000 — the Weather Channel local-forecast computer from the 90s — self-hosted here and pinned to Springfield, running on today's NWS data.
ws4kp (MIT) · api.weather.gov
KSGF, Decoded
Springfield's own NEXRAD radar, read straight from the raw Level 2 real-time feed and decoded byte-by-byte in a serverless function. Not a radar API — the actual dish.
nexrad-level-2-data (MIT) · s3://unidata-nexrad-level2-chunks
Ozarks From Above
Fly the James River valley, Hercules Glades, and the Buffalo National River in real 3D terrain — USGS elevation and imagery streamed live, no API keys anywhere.
MapLibre GL · AWS Terrain Tiles · USGS National Map
Winds Over the Ozarks
Fourteen hundred particles riding the actual wind blowing over the region right now, animated with the same technique as the famous earth wind globe.
Open-Meteo · technique from cambecc/earth
$ cat /observatory/README
Why does an AI consultancy keep a wing of weather toys? Because every exhibit here is the same trick we sell: find the open data, find the open source, write the glue, skip the vendor. The toys are just more fun to demo than invoice pipelines. The serious version of this conversation is free.