weather website or app?

[Diggin It]

Unless I am mistaken...this is 100% FAKE BS...The NOAA/NWS is 100% FREE....I have never seen any solicitation for purchasing any faction of the data provided by the NWS sites...

There are some fees for NWS products, but not to the general public for the types of information we need.

Federal Register
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Schedule of Fees for Access to NOAA Environmental Data, Information, and Related Products and Services

 

[/pine]

I got so sick of other websites and apps that I made my own weather app (Wx) many years ago, and it's since become pretty popular among people who want facts and details with no fuss. There is a common frustration with weather information among many people, and I think it's because the commercial companies got greedy and maybe got too flashy and resource intensive, while simultaneously dumbing things down (how you can go in opposite directions boggles my mind). I just can't stand flashy weather apps -- they try too hard to impress and totally blow it.

Eddie, if you're on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, PM me and I can send you a coupon code to get the app for free. You've contributed so much to TBN and helped me over the years, it's the least I can do.

Not trying to toot my own horn but... back in the day I had only the second mobile WX application available on the earliest mobile phone browsers (WAP protocol)...it used a PERL script ( I hacked from an unnamed northern university computer lab) that downloaded and formatted radar images from the NWS and created an animated GIF montage...AKA "radar loop"

All this was done via a PHP script I wrote (including the PERL script) along with the capabilities of ImageMagick and the wonder of the Apache server...
It was a wonderful time of the Internet but but it did not take long for big money/big tech to usurp the creativity of individual web developers...

 

[s219]

Not trying to toot my own horn but... back in the day I had only the second mobile WX application available on the earliest mobile phone browsers (WAP protocol)...it used a PERL script ( I hacked from an unnamed northern university computer lab) that downloaded and formatted radar images from the NWS and created an animated GIF montage...AKA "radar loop"

All this was done via a PHP script I wrote (including the PERL script) along with the capabilities of ImageMagick and the wonder of the Apache server...
It was a wonderful time of the Internet but but it did not take long for big money/big tech to usurp the creativity of individual web developers...

Ah, the good old days. My first weather software (before "app" was a cool buzzword) was all written in scripts and pretty good for the time. I don't know how I held it all together; if it was a tractor it would have been made of duct tape and baling wire. But it worked. Years later I went to C and Obj-C and the leap in capability was quite nice, plus easier to develop for.

 

[jcummins]

Yep... GOOD weather apps are a challenge.

Lately been using weatherbug.

 

[two_bit_score]

On my phone it is MyRadar app.

 

[/pine]

Ah, the good old days. My first weather software (before "app" was a cool buzzword) was all written in scripts and pretty good for the time. I don't know how I held it all together; if it was a tractor it would have been made of duct tape and baling wire. But it worked. Years later I went to C and Obj-C and the leap in capability was quite nice, plus easier to develop for.

It truly was an amazing time...and I really mean "amazing" when it came down to seeing what you could do with some typically basic scripts that were mostly just strings of simple commands calling different functions of installed packages etc...I failed to mention that one of the main functions of my animated radar script was CRON for capturing the series of static radar images over a short period of time to create the animation...

 

[lman]

I use WU and can see my weatherstation listed there.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

On my phone it is MyRadar app.

I use MyRadar on my phone also. I'm surprised not many here have mentioned it. There are no ads, and the radar is really good


MyRadar Weather Radar, Earthquake, Forecast and Storms

 

[dragoneggs]

I use WU and can see my weatherstation listed there.

Same goes for PWSweather.

 

[/pine]

To know what the current WX is ..all you have to do is look out the window or open the door...

IMO good weather forecasts are the best form ever of being able to see into the future and without modern technology it's anyone's guess...
Don't need a WX station to tell if it's hot or cold or raining or not...!

 

[two_bit_score]

To know what the current WX is ..all you have to do is look out the window or open the door...

IMO good weather forecasts are the best form ever of being able to see into the future and without modern technology it's anyone's guess...
Don't need a WX station to tell if it's hot or cold or raining or not...!

If that’s what you want, keep doing it, nobody is going to complain about it.


Why do you complain about people wanting the weather forecast? Sheesh.

 

[dragoneggs]

To know what the current WX is ..all you have to do is look out the window or open the door...

IMO good weather forecasts are the best form ever of being able to see into the future and without modern technology it's anyone's guess...
Don't need a WX station to tell if it's hot or cold or raining or not...!

I enjoy looking at local microclimate differences between personal we stations. I also like looking at my historical data such as rainfall which varies drastically around here.

Some say that forecasting is quite a bit more difficult in the PNW vs the interior states. I imagine this might be true for most coastal areas.

 

[two_bit_score]

In Texas, if you don’t like the weather, just wait about 10 minutes.

 

[stuckmotor]

I like the 10 day forecast at weather.com. It's quick and easy to read and to change into the hourly forecast. I don't use the app just type in 10 day and my suggestion box usually beings up what I want to click on. That might be why I haven't noticed any upgrade ads.

 

[stuckmotor]

OT
Eddie,
I haven't had a problem unraveling a feed sack since you told me your dad's trick.
Thanks!
Stuck

 

[/pine]

If that痴 what you want, keep doing it, nobody is going to complain about it.


Why do you complain about people wanting the weather forecast? Sheesh.

Where in the ******* **** do I say anything about complaining about anything???...methinks you need a remedial reading comprehension course...geeze!!!

 

[/pine]

I enjoy looking at local microclimate differences between personal we stations. I also like looking at my historical data such as rainfall which varies drastically around here.

Some say that forecasting is quite a bit more difficult in the PNW vs the interior states. I imagine this might be true for most coastal areas.

The only people that care about the WX in the pnw are those that live there...the only WX you hear about on the national news is the tornado belt, the joisey/ny area and FL... sometimes coastal areas of SC/NC...and NOLA when there's a hurricane...

 

[dragoneggs]

The only people that care about the WX in the pnw are those that live there...the only WX you hear about on the national news is the tornado belt, the joisey/ny area and FL... sometimes coastal areas of SC/NC...and NOLA when there's a hurricane...

That's so true... sort of peeves me that the national news weather report focuses on the NE then the SE and if they have time the mid west. But I guess that is okay... we don't need anymore people migrating to the PNW... I'm fine just keeping this part of God's country a secret

 

[dfkrug]

I use Wunderground on a Win10 desktop using Brave browser. Brave is based on Chrome, but it blocks ads and website trackers. Users of Chrome, Edge, Apple, etc, may have a worse experience. If you use a WU app on a cellphone, then I do hear performance is not good.

We have lots of microclimates around here, so I monitor particular local WU weather data stations in the area.

 

[Diggin It]

I like the 10 day forecast at weather.com. It's quick and easy to read and to change into the hourly forecast. I don't use the app just type in 10 day

Timeanddate.com has a 14 day guesstimate plus a few other things: World Temperatures — Weather Around The World Set your Zip Code for local information. They also do Sun, Moon and planet phases and rise/set times.