November 24, 2003
Michael Fagin
West Coast Weather
Redmond, Washington USA
Dear Michael; I wanted to thank you for the forecasts that you provided to my climbing group this past October and November 2003. I have been climbing in the Himalayas since 1987 and have been on the summit of Everest four times so certainly I have seen a lot of weather forecasts. Our expedition took place in a somewhat 'uncharted' season on Everest, the post-monsoon. The weather during the autumn is significantly less observed than in the spring. Your forecasts were excellent and that is not an easy task when forecasting from October 1 till November 1. Not only was I impressed with these forecasts but also our climbing Sherpas' found your forecasts very valuable and that was the first time they liked an "outsider's" forecasts.
Furthermore, the format was concise and easy to read. What I really appreciated was the fact that you were available to talk to me one on one by satellite telephone. The sunspot activity this fall made it difficult getting data transmission (email) at Base Camp, thus being able to have our weather briefings on the phone with you was very critical. Our plans are to return to Mt. Everest in the fall of 2004 for another summit bid. So please reserve us on your forecast calendar.
Sincerely,
Wally Berg
Washington State Stormwater Forecast
Brown Caldwell, Washington
September 15, 2005
I wanted to take the time to thank you for the weather forecasts that you provided to us during the winter of 2004-05. As you know our firm needed forecasts for “major rain events” for the stormwater tests that we were doing in the Puget Sound region. This was certainly a challenge since the 2004-05 winter ended up being a drought season. However, you gave us advance notice of the “only two major rain events” that we had for the 2004-05 season. Not only was the notice accurate but your forecast rain amounts was precise.
There was much discussion among the participants of our group if we should pay for weather forecast services. Between the internet and all the local television forecasts there are countless free forecasts out there. Frankly, I find those “free forecasts” very vague and quite often not accurate. That is why we choose your service. Your accuracy is second to none. Accurate forecasts were critical to us since if we had bad weather data we would have wasted thousands of dollars in running our stormwater tests. Thus, you saved us thousands.
Again, on behalf of Brown and Caldwell we appreciate your forecasts as this information proved to be valuable on the Metro stormwater project that we worked on.
Sincerely,
Henryk Melcer
Washington State Rain Forecast
5800 Beacon Ave. Construction, Washington
September 15, 2007
I wanted compliment your firm on your excellent custom forecasts that you provided me during the winter of 2006-2007 in the Seattle area. For the excavation work that I was doing on this construction site I needed to know 15 days in advance of when it was going to be dry for 3 days. I thought I was asking for the impossible especially last winter when it seemed that we broke every possible rainfall record..
I had to wait and wait given the almost constant rain that we had but sure enough you gave me the 15 day forecast of a dry seam of weather. With that information in hand I was able to mobilize the excavation plan in dry weather which by my conservative estimates saved me 1000’s of dollars. I know of some other construction firms that had to do the exaction work in the rainy weather it that was a very slow process and a very expansive proposition for them.
Thanks again for your help and with all the “free” and mostly inaccurate weather forecasts out there on the internet and television it is great to know that I can get a professionally prepared custom forecast for the construction sites that I work on. I will continue to recommend your weather services to other construction related firms.
Sincerely,
Todd Hymel
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