Terms of use

FrankenNAM maps and grids are free.

No warranty, and not for safety decisions

FrankenNAM is an experimental model run with no data assimilation. It is provided as is, with no promise that it is accurate, complete or on time. Do not use it as the only basis for decisions about life or property; use National Weather Service forecasts and warnings.

Please call it FrankenNAM

You may use the maps and files in your own forecasts, products and publications. When you publish a map or number from them, please say it is FrankenNAM and not the operational NAM. The file names match NOAA’s so existing tools work; the contents are not NOAA’s. This is a community project, not affiliated with or endorsed by NOAA or the National Weather Service.

The service can change or stop

This is a small community service run on rented computers by one person. Files, cases, paths and pages can change, move or be removed at any time, without notice. Nothing here is a promise of a schedule or of future runs.

Reasonable use

Pull the files you need and not more than that. Please do not hammer the server. Access may be limited if it is.

Access logs

The site keeps standard access logs (address, time, path, browser) for running and costing the service. We do not sell them, and we delete them after 90 days.

Who runs it

FrankenNAM is run by Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik, personally. Contact: theconvergencezone.com/contact.