# Microsoft blog post mentioning Cylc

**URL:** <https://cylc.discourse.group/t/microsoft-blog-post-mentioning-cylc/267>\
**Category:** Cylc Announce\
**Created:** [September 8, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://cylc.discourse.group/t/microsoft-blog-post-mentioning-cylc/267 "2020-09-08T18:35:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_Whitcomb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/cylc.discourse.group/tim_whitcomb/32/58_2.png) [@Tim\_Whitcomb](https://cylc.discourse.group/u/Tim_Whitcomb)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://cylc.discourse.group/t/microsoft-blog-post-mentioning-cylc/267/1 "2020-09-08T18:35:05Z")

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Hi everyone - I wanted to make you aware of a recent effort for doing real-time ensemble tropical cyclone forecasts using the Microsoft Azure cloud computing environment - you can find the writeup by Microsoft folks here:

> **[U.S. Navy taps Microsoft Azure to enhance weather modeling - Microsoft in...](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/microsoft-in-business/government/2020/09/04/u-s-navy-taps-microsoft-azure-to-enhance-weather-modeling/)**
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> With two tropical storms headed for the Gulf Coast, a U.S. Navy team of leading engineers and scientists partnered with their Microsoft Federal counterparts over the Aug. 22-23 weekend to...

While Cylc gets a line in the writeup, it was an _integral_ part to being able to pull this whole thing off, orchestrating workflows for running data acquisition, global model, and the regional TC models. You can also follow the dissemination at [https://twitter.com/coazcoop](https://twitter.com/coazcoop)

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to making Cylc the useful tool that it is that allows us to actually make things like this work!