Where does the BaselineGenerator get its data

[jquagga]

Hi there,

Before getting to the question I wanted to start by saying how much I appreciate NOAA. While I don't work there, I'm not that far away from what is going on and I know how hard this time is.

Part of my coping has been tinkering and I've been enjoying using the API to pull the forecast. I have that going well, but I'm trying to understand some of how the internals work. I'd like to use some of the raw data from the forecastGrid, but I like the text narrative from the forecast.

Does the BaselineGenerator generate the daily weather summaries itself as part of the API, or is this something which forecasters generate with CAVE? I see where there is python code in CAVE which builds the text strings but I wasn't sure if that then became the narrative forecast or if the api built that itself. So I think my question is mostly just trying to understand where text narrative comes from.

[scadergit]

The API has a custom generator for the description and short description that is dervied from grid values.

[jquagga]

Thank you! Makes sense to me!