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From WeatherGraph to Weathercaster
In 2013, Mark and Jackson met at Southside Espresso in Houston, Texas. At the time, they were both independently building apps, trading ideas over coffee and staying connected in the years that followed. Eventually, they decided to collaborate.
Jackson's work in renewable energy, specifically on a meteorology team supporting wind farms, sparked the core idea. Forecast data for energy operators was delivered in chart form, making it faster to interpret and easier to act on. Compared to traditional weather forecasts, charts made complex data immediately understandable.
That insight became their first app: WeatherGraph. Built using National Weather Service data, it focused on clarity and speed through visual forecasting. While powerful, it had limitations, most notably being restricted to the United States due to its data source.
Years later, in 2024, Jackson set out to reimagine the concept from the ground up. The new project, initially codenamed Weatherpaw, was designed to take advantage of modern Apple technologies like SwiftUI and WeatherKit, while expanding beyond earlier constraints.
Mark rejoined the effort, and together they built something new.
That project became Weathercaster, a modern, visual-first weather app rooted in the same original idea: weather should be fast, clear, and intuitive to understand.