"What's the problem with that?" etc et al. I've discussed this on technical internet forums often enough that I can practically already write the replies to my own comment. It's so American it is almost laughable, all while the European ECMWF eats our lunch in terms of accuracy even for the CONUS. These companies claim to create a lot of value added products ('cleaner APIs', 'minutecasts', etc etc) that are either scientifically dubious or technically simple and then these companies walk away with huge profits based on being a portal to government data.
This has lead to a lot of companies being essentially resellers of public data. In summary: horrible oversight by the federal govt (read, congress) of our technical/scientific forecasting resources means that our forecasting ability is extremely fragmented and poorly organized. It's a nexus of capitalism, federal government spending, politics, and technology that has very real implications for individual Americans. It's going to be a tangential comment but I work in science research that's adjacent to weather forecasting and I find the political/technical jockeying that is happening with forecasting to be fascinating.
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