StormAuditor Articles

Evergreen explainers on how weather data works and how to research storm history for an address or a date of loss.

Plain-language guides to weather data

Evergreen explainers on how the public weather record actually works: what URMA and MESH are, how to read hail size charts and the EF scale, what NWS warnings do and don't mean, the difference between ASOS and AWOS stations, and how to research storm history for an address or a date of loss. Written to be readable by homeowners and precise enough for roofers, restoration contractors, public adjusters, and insurance professionals.

Why these guides exist

Weather data is full of terms that sound like measurements but aren't — a radar hail estimate, a gridded wind analysis, a warning polygon. Misreading them leads to bad decisions in both directions: dismissing real storms and overclaiming weak ones. These articles explain each data type honestly, the same way StormAuditor's own methodology pages document how estimates are formed and what they can and cannot prove.

All article pages are linked below. For daily state-by-state storm narratives, see the Storm Recaps blog; to apply what you read to a real property, start with the Free Report Snapshot.