During my freshman year of high school, I created “Charlie’s Weather Forecasts,” my very own Facebook weather forecasting group. Every weekday, I would provide a short forecast and explain various aspects of the weather as they pertained to our current meteorological situation. Here are some forecasts: my first forecast ever is on the left, and a snippet from a December 17, 2008 forecast is on the right.

Additionally, my friends would often comment on the group wall, especially when there was snow in the forecast. As shown below, there was often a stark contrast in comments before and after the forecast period.

Later in 2009, I moved my forecasts to www.charliesweatherforecasts.blogspot.com and started a separate Charlie’s Weather Forecasts Facebook Page. Here, I could not only have more extended writeups and forecasts but I could include pictures in the posts and links/other information on the sides. Although I started writing out forecasts just like I had on Facebook, I gradually shifted towards writing about weather and science topics in general.

But even the blog had limitations. Facebook was great for collaborating and talking about the weather with my classmates, but it was harder to spark similar conversations on the blog. Additionally, going through old posts was a cumbersome process – I had hundreds of posts and tons of information that I had written, but with each new post, previous posts seemed to slip into the oblivion. So in late April 2016, almost 8 years after I started my Facebook blog, I started my own website using WordPress and the Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha. I really wanted to emphasize that this is a community website, so after many sleepless nights, I came up “WeatherTogether.” The .com was selling for several thousand bucks, but the .us was free, and the rest is history.

As time goes on, I hope to make this site more and more community-oriented. It’s amazing what we can accomplish if we work together.

So let’s make some connections, have a lot of fun, and maybe even learn a little bit about weather in the process. 🙂

Thanks for stopping by!
Charlie