Dan Paulat (dpaulat)

Dan Paulat is an independent developer who, under the dpaulat imprint, concentrates on specialized geospatial visualization tools for weather enthusiasts and professionals. His single public offering, Supercell Wx, is an open-source, multi-platform weather-radar workstation that ingests Level-II and Level-III data from the U.S. NEXRAD network as well as Canadian, Australian and European composites, then renders high-resolution velocity, reflectivity, storm-relative velocity and dual-pol products in real time. Typical use cases span from storm-chasers plotting mesocyclone rotation and hail signatures, to emergency managers monitoring approaching squall lines, to broadcasters capturing clean screen feeds for on-air briefings. The program supports placefile overlays for spotter positions, warning polygons, SPC outlooks and custom shapefiles, while its GPU-accelerated tilt sequencer allows rapid browsing of 3-D volume scans. Users can export loops in common video formats or stream them through WebSockets to downstream websites, and a built-in alert engine issues audio or e-mail notifications when user-defined velocity or dBZ thresholds are crossed. Because the codebase is GPLv3-licensed, universities and private forecasters frequently fork it to add hydrometeor classification, dual-pol rainfall estimators or machine-learning nowcast layers. Dan Paulat’s Supercell Wx is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always install the latest upstream build, and can be queued alongside other applications for unattended batch installation.