WxYard started out as an idea back in 2012 from a site I made called burlington-weather.com. burlington-weather.com was my first dive into making a weather website from scratch. For the technology back then and the skills that I had, it wasn't half bad.
Around 2014, I had landed my job at MESO and decided by late 2014 that I needed to take my personal website to the next level. Sometime around early 2015, the first rendition of WxYard was deployed and now the rest is history.
I dedicate this site to three meteorology friends/mentors that left us too early. Chris Bouchard and Tim Melino were two meteorologists that loved severe weather just as much as I do. We all loved to storm chase and would swap stories or even chase together.
John Zack was a mentor to me. John hired me in February 2014 with no proven experience to architect software. John allowed me to spread my wings with meteorological software development and architecture. He always encouraged me in my efforts to create innovative products.
I hope the finished product will be worthy of their memories.