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Spotify's web API is fantastic, and Dark Sky has a pretty cool weather API. Also, if you want something flashy, you could try to build an Alexa skill.

Dark Sky also aggregates data from multiple sources. Not sure if this is a unique thing to do, but larger sample size means better forecasts. From their website:

"The Dark Sky API is backed by a wide range of weather data sources, which are aggregated together to provide the most accurate forecast possible for a given location."

https://darksky.net/dev/docs/sources

I use DarkSky API, you get 1000 free api calls a day and each additional call is $0.0001. I also use ForecastIO cocoapod to easily download and parse the JSON. It’s probably the easiest and cheapest I’ve found

Ooh, I can help!

I use https://darksky.net/dev professionally. It's mainly aimed at app-makers, so it is very cheap to use with the first 1000 requests / day being free and $1,- per 10.000

They allow you to request weather data based on geo coordinates and historic data, as well as a weekly forecast as well. There's some python related packages as well to use their api. I use https://github.com/ZeevG/python-forecast.io

Also, see https://pastebin.com/dD1TCS00 for some of my findings on the API behaviour.

No, I am not affiliated with them in any way.

An alternative if you like a snarky weather app that relies on Dark Sky's data is Carrot Weather. Of all the weather apps available, I like its Apple Watch layout the best.

CARROT Weather - Talking Forecast Robot by Grailr LLC https://appsto.re/us/UFAt5.i

As far as Dark Sky (formerly forecast.io) data goes, it sources data from various source, to include NOAA.

https://darksky.net/dev/docs/sources

I use https://darksky.net its a nice site and has no ads. As far as self hosting goes they have a API that you could hook into if you wanted to make your own site or app, i think 1000 api calls a day is free.

Looking at dark sky https://darksky.net/forecast/50.8969,-1.3383/si12/en

Gonna rain for one day and Clouderson for four plus one.

Who’s going to win? We don’t know but fuck me its going to be awesome. Cmon cricket!

darksky.net does pretty well for predicting rain patterns for the next few hours, which can be handy if you are stuck inside but if you have lived here long enough you can get a better sense just by looking at the sky.

Actually, it's brightened up now we're actually in Southampton so who knows, maybe they'll start. Can't imagine they're going to get a full game in though based on this forecast

I would like to share Darksky's forecast on the Oval for Ind v Aus for June 9th. I have found DarkSky to be pretty accurate. I do not work for them, I just revere them for their predictive modeling capabilities.

No rain expected today

Rain summary so far:

Seems like rain is due in an hour and a bit. 4 minutes an over gives about 16-20 overs. Thought I'd check DLS for 3, 4, 5, and 6 down:

EDIT: Apparently rain incoming according to Cricinfo. Have you failed me, DarkSky?!

Wunderground was always much better, until a few months ago. Weather.com for bad a few years back after IBM purchased them.

I moved on to Dark Sky. It has nailed the storm in 1hr alerts all this past week.

Their help page says:

> Dark Sky is only available in the US, UK and Ireland right now, as we need radar data in each region to provide the next hour forecasts that power the core features of our mobile apps

It's a shame because it's a really nice app and website

No. DarkSky and WeatherUnderground both aggregate information from many sources, including thousands of Personal Weather Stations, and combine that with information from the National Weather Service and other government agencies (can't say what AccuWeather offers, I haven't looked into it previously). And both of these services have APIs that are used by many weather apps and websites, to display both current conditions and forecasts. Not all information comes from the government.

Apple bought Dark Sky and is shutting down the Android app and the API and website

😡😡😡

Absolutely terrible news since the app and API are universally loved and is incredibly well done

Here's the web version they're removing:

https://darksky.net/details/37.778,-122.4313/2020-3-31/us12/en

Pakistan should be 100/1 at the end of 21 according to DLS. They are 95/1. http://www.boltoncricket.co.uk/DLcalc.html

Possible light rain starting in 40 min. https://darksky.net/forecast/53.4631,-2.2914/us12/en

denver forecast for the week. today's peak was noon. * sunday 6pm * monday 6pm * tuesday 2-4pm * wednesday 4-6pm * thursday noon-4pm * friday noon (late-day storm) * saturday noon

So yeah, it's much more true about Denver than the ~10 other cities I've looked up.

I’ve been thinking about this for a couple years, too. The main thing I came up with is scraping since I couldn’t find weather forecast records for my area (Buffalo).

I found https://darksky.net which is free for up to 1000 queries per day. It’s still scraping over time, I haven’t found a log of historical forecast data.

Why don’t forecasters track their accuracy!? Someone has to be the best. Why wouldn’t they advertise that?

• https://darksky.net/forecast/47.7007,-122.3638/us12/en

Cooling off this weekend (estimated high this weekend of 74, as of this writing) with temps in the low 80s through next week.

So, answer: not for at least another week, according to forecast models right now.

Here's an interesting thing you can do:

• Pick the climate of the place, find a real place with that climate on the world.
• Go to https://darksky.net/forecast. Search for the place you picked.
• Press the time machine button. roll a 1998+d20 for the year. This will be your year. Keep it for the rest the game
• Pick month and day as your imaginary date, navigate forward as time passes

There will be some outliers in there naturally so that's your weird weather. If there's magic involved or other stuff that doesn't have a real world counterpart, percentage should be picked based on how much you want to emphasise it. Maybe you can roll to modify the values from website

As of the DarkSky weather update via the Total Solar Eclipse Live thread as of 12:01 am PDT:

Last updated August 15 2017, 12:01 pm PDT (7:01 pm UTC). Data from Dark Sky.

If you are looking for a better weather service, I like Dark Sky. It's not perfect by any means and misses some features I would have liked, but it is miles ahead of AccuWeather.

Lol, someone forgot to think that one through!

When done properly, that layout is actually a great way to view the weather. I'm a huge fan of DarkSky (formerly forecast.io) due to the beautiful ways they visually represent weather data.

According to the Darksky weather forecast, we're expecting to have light rain starting around 5:00 pm and continuing on and off until tomorrow.

Remember that weather forecasts are guesses - sometimes good guesses, but just guesses nonetheless.

I'll 3rd the recommendation for DarkSky.

As long as you keep your query rate less often than ever 15 minutes (1000 calls/day max for free), you can grab the current conditions, forecast, and alerts and easily parse them for what you want.

It would be a fun little project to take the Dark Sky API and use an AWS Lambda to pull daily stats for a city into DynamoDB. You could create a simple S3 bucket-hosted site with some neat temperature graph or something to see the data.

For sure. Looking at historical weather here, we had a very mild tailwind on average headed out and a mild headwind coming back that turned into more of a crosswind once we hit Memphis, but I don't know how accurate this data is.

Dark Sky. I use CARROT on iOS which pulls Dark Sky data, I'm not sure the actual Dark Sky app is available in Canada. You'll have to find an Android app that uses Dark Sky data. Beware though, you have to pay for it ... something like $2/yr!

https://darksky.net/forecast/43.6698,-79.3861/ca12/en

Check it out. It is INCREDIBLY detailed. You can drill down into to the minute forecasts, radar views, etc. Very very high quality data.

I'm a bit of a data nerd and I simply haven't found a better data source than Dark Sky.

The dew factor in Mumbai in March is 15°. In Melbourne, it's just slightly less than 15°

And in Mumbai today, it's 25°, clearly unfit for D/N Test cricket with a pink ball.

But if you can play D/N cricket in Australia with 15° dew point, then you can do the same in Mumbai at the exact same dew point.

That should be enough bench line data.

>Once you have the data, then decide if white balls can be considered or do we have any way to improve the pink balls for that

We already tried white balls for Test D/N cricket way back in 1997, it didn't quite work out. BCCI were the ones to push for D/N Test cricket at first, in fact.

edit: s/D\/N cricket/Test D\/N cricket

CARROT uses Dark Sky to gather weather information. So if you find your location here, https://darksky.net you should be able to use it. I live in a small city in Norway and have accurate weather data.

darksky.net

be aware that pretty much all weather apps pull data from Environment Canada. Due to our geography here we can have very localized weather patterns that'll affect one part of the city (or mountains) quite differently from another in a short time period.

Yeah, Dark Sky is excellent. If you have an iPhone I think you can still download the app. There's also has a web version. The plan seems to be to continue to fold Dark Sky into Apple Weather and then get rid of it as a separate product, so enjoy it while you can :-)

Weather.com, wunderground.com, darksky.net.

Currently all the forecasts I've seen show the high on Monday being just a few degrees under 110 F.

I've used darksky.net for weather in the Cascades. It has a nice Time Machine feature that lets you see historical weather (not sure how far back) plus predict what it'll be like in the future.

Note that Dark Sky's radar/map is only available in the US, UK, and Ireland. The temperature and precipitation data is available elsewhere, but I've found it to not be as accurate as other sources. If you're in a supported country though, Dark Sky is absolutely awesome.

Edit: Also note that they've been acquired by Apple, so odds are that it'll somehow get baked into the default weather app in the future. Though, I'm hoping Dark Sky's rain-lover's-focused UI will remain and the internal tech will remain common to both (and hopefully expanded to more countries).

cherry hill nj forecast for this week

• today's peak 4pm
• sunday 4pm
• monday 6pm
• tuesday 4-6pm
• wednesday 2pm
• thursday 6pm
• friday 4pm
• saturday 4pm

houston tx forecast this week: * today, peaked 6pm * sunday 6pm * monday 2-4pm (late day rain) * tuesday 2-4pm (late day rain) * wednesday 6-8pm * thursday 4pm * friday 4pm * saturday 2-4pm

and dallas tx forecast this week: * today, peaked 6pm * sunday 4-6pm * monday 4pm * tuesday 4-6pm * wednesday 6pm * thursday 4-6pm * friday 4-6pm * saturday 6pm

Thanks! https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/bakr7q/time_lapse_building_a_magic_mirror/

The weather API is called DarkSky. I've enjoyed it so far, seems like you can get 1,000 free API calls per day before it has a cost. https://darksky.net/dev

Very broad question. If you're looking to play around with an API to get familiar with common practises, look up a service with a free tier and just mess around with it.

A few years back I used https://darksky.net/dev to do something similar.

This is a pretty neat page that provides a little clearer windows of when it might actually rain. The models seem to have already updated the forecast even from when I checked earlier to have less daytime rain.

https://darksky.net/forecast/40.772,-73.9303/us12/en

Hey everyone,

We understand that some people are getting frustrated. But let me follow up some these:

Server Issues: What happened the other day was an unforeseeable issue. And a few months ago, we also had some more frequent server issues. But we recently we made some changes on our end that made our servers much more stable. Until the other day, there hasn't been any server issues since these changes months ago. But our server team is working hard to avoid any issues, like the recent one, from happening again.

Weather Issue: We recently moved away from Custom Weather, and now are using Dark Sky. So far, we've seen some great success!

Smart Recovery: We are looking into this with our ecobees, and currently trying to get a better picture of Smart Recovery all together, and how it can be improved.

We thank you guys, and all our customer reporting these and any issues to us, to help make our products better for the future!

Well, sounds like hasta la vista.

But I've found Dark Sky better anyway...didn't even notice Storm was clearing, as it were, since Dark Sky is more accurate anyway. All you need and not what you don't. Switch. https://darksky.net/app

I am seeing zero chance of rain on darksky.net.

For any first timers I gotta preach that it will get hot enough to tease you to take off your shirt during the day and cold enough for sweats and a good jacket at night.

That block of rain doesn't even exist in their forecast for Mississauga or Brampton...

They also have a cloud cover forecast for the eclipse, which shows very little cloud cover in Toronto throughout the time of the eclipse. https://maps.darksky.net/@cloud_cover,2017-8-21,19,39.000,-95.000,4 ... Nothing showing on the precipitation forecast either.

I use the Dark Sky API directly.

https://darksky.net/dev/docs

The JSON returned is really easy to work with, but there's a Perl wrapper for it here ..

http://search.cpan.org/~martyloo/Forecast-IO-0.21/lib/Forecast/IO.pm

.. if you can't be bothered to parse the data yourself. The module really doesn't do very much.

Example data returned by the API ..

{ "latitude": 51.4764332, "longitude": 0.002573, "timezone": "Europe/London", "offset": 1, "currently": { "time": 1501304924, "summary": "Partly Cloudy", "icon": "partly-cloudy-day", "nearestStormDistance": 95, "nearestStormBearing": 146, "precipIntensity": 0, "precipProbability": 0, "temperature": 13.39, "apparentTemperature": 13.39, "dewPoint": 12.71, "humidity": 0.96, "windSpeed": 4.3, "windGust": 9.3, "windBearing": 258, "visibility": 15, "cloudCover": 0.49, "pressure": 1008.34, "ozone": 318.09, "uvIndex": 0 },

.. followed by forecasts by the minute, hour and day (up to 5 days IIRC)

http://www.freshfromflorida.com/Divisions-Offices/Florida-Forest-Service/Wildland-Fire/Current-Fire-Conditions

PDF map & interactive map from the Florida Forest Service are on the right hand side of the webpage.

From what https://darksky.net shows, we are under a Red Flag Warning again even after the rain from the front that came through.

https://darksky.net/details/23.4667,-75.7817/2017-4-26/ca12/en

Going through this historical weather data, maximum wind on these days was about:

Wed April 26: 18kph (11mph)

Thu April 27: 22kph (14mph)

Fri April 28: 24kph (15mph)

Sat April 29: 30kph (19mph)

It does say "light rain" started in the evening of Wednesday, April 26, continuing until the morning of Thursday, April 27. These don't seem like "storm" wind speeds.

If you watch this video:

https://www.facebook.com/davemehta/videos/vb.2001963/10110898460035541/

You will see near the end a bunch of carpet circles with various furniture near them. This gives us the best view yet of how the tents were constructed: circle carpet put down first, then white dome constructed around it. It also explains why the carpets were wet: the 'light rain' from Wednesday was enough to get in underneath all the tents and into the carpeting.

I've worked a LOT on weather apps. The best weather API I've come across is this one: https://darksky.net/dev/

This one is great if you're looking to just display weather data. If you're looking to have an interactive weather map, be prepared to pay out the ass for map tiling. For whatever reason, weather map tiling services have no idea how to be affordable.

Dark Sky is the weather provider, so without that key you can't get the weather track or current conditions like you mentioned. To use their API, it requires a key, and if you use it more than 1000 times per day (like if I were to include my own key in this for everyone to use) it starts costing money. At one request per 15 minutes, that's only ~100 calls/day, so it's effectively free for personal use. Most watchfaces require that you enter your own key so they can stay free. You can sign up here: https://darksky.net/dev/register

And yeah, I think what I'm going to do is make some dropdown selections that let you put whatever you want in whatever corner (and center), including nothing at all. Thanks for the input!

Looks like your API was fine! The dictionary was the issue so I used match text with some regex :) Dark Sky Historical Weather.

Edit: For anyone looking at this, the Dark Sky API is free up to 1000 calls per day, go play!

If you're looking for a higher-end Japanese dining experience, I can't recommend Asuka in Westwood enough. Get the kaiseki tasting menu and get ready to have your mind blown.

And +1 for the Tempura House recommendation for something closer to home-style bento.

> Da ist es nicht überall trocken, gerade an der Küste hab ich da extrem feuchte Hitze erlebt - Nebelbildung bei 30°C. > > Gerade die Golfregion hat bisher auch die höchsten Kühlgrenztemperaturen erreicht, teilweise nahe dem überlebbaren Limit. > > Abu Dhabi hat jetzt gerade: > > Current: Humid and Mostly Cloudy, 101F/38C; High: 103F/39C; Low: 90F/32C; Humidity: 65%; Wind: 18MPH/29KPH NE -- Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates - https://darksky.net/forecast/24.454,54.377/ca12/en > > Das bedeutet, ziemlich genau das, was ich dort auch erlebt habe an absoluter Feuchte, bei einer Absenkung auf 30°C beginnt dort der Nebel. Das ist ein sehr feuchtes, heißes Klima. Bei den 32°C Tiefsttemperatur, die man dort heute Nacht erreichen wird, wird es knapp 90% Luftfeuchtigkeit haben. > > Wenn Du da aus einem klimatisierten Raum kommst (und das sind wir - aus einem Flugzeug bzw. dem Flughafen), ist Deine Körperoberfläche noch mal deutlich kälter, Du unterschreitest den Taupunkt deutlich und das Wasser aus der Luft kondensiert erstmal sofort, und Dein Rucksack, Deine kühlen Kleider und alles andere ist in Sekunden nass. So wie eine kalte Flasche Cola aus dem Kühlschrank bei feuchtem Sommerwetter hier. Nur dass Du dort 23°C oder so Oberflächentemperatur an der Kleidung hast, und das mit der passiert. > > edit: Ich mag Wüstenklima - gerne auch bei über 40°C - halte ich gut aus - der heiße Nebel dort war aber das ekelhaftste was ich an Hitze jemals erlebt hab, und das war nur für einen kurzen Weg im Freien. Da stockt einem echt der Atem.

edit 2: Repost, weil Reddit das wegen dem Linkshortener zu Darksky entfernt hatte.

I’m currently using overdrop or any other app that pulls data from darksky.net . I also use windy when i im browsing form desktop for comparing more data and event forecasts. (Rain, wind.....). Their mobile app is also good but since its live map it would consume more data.

DarkSky which is quite accurate does show rain... not as much as OP's app but the weather outlook has all the markings of a damp squib.

Darksky's forecast is much similar to /u/warp-factor....

Friday is looking like a high of 84 and partly cloudy and just about everything else is getting rained out friday. Think it will be doable at a high of 84?

edit: oh shit I'm actually seeing a high of 72 at the sunday wall coordinates on dark sky - https://darksky.net/forecast/38.818,-108.608/us12/en

Assuming the US, for the plugin, you can use the Dark Sky integration - https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/darksky/

One of the options is alerts that you can do things with when sensor.dark_sky_alerts > 0. It also creates sensor.dark_sky_alert_text that you could then parse to figure out the type and severity. I haven't looked at it enough to see if there's a severity attribute somewhere that you can use https://darksky.net/dev/docs#alerts

>In what countries are you available?

>Dark Sky is available in the United States (including Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico), the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

https://darksky.net/help/android#+24

Check out the dew point graph for Houston, TX today for a 10-point spread:

https://darksky.net/details/29.7589,-95.3677/2019-7-12/us12/en

Now it so happens that dew point for Houston today largely mirrors RH, but it ain't necessarily so, as today in Nashville:

https://darksky.net/details/36.1622,-86.7744/2019-7-12/us12/en

I used to look at Wunderground, but haven't lately. I have heard it sucks now that it was bought by [Weather.com??]. The other weather sites I love are windy.com (awesome visuals) and darksky.net (seems to be as specific as any site dares to get in a forecast, and is pretty accurate).

Frost is MUCH harder to protect from. But I will give you advice that has worked for me.

1. Pepper stems and branches can survive the frosty mornings but the leaves and root ball cannot. So, they must either be protected or removed (Google: overwintering). Once the air and soil temps dip low enough the plant will go to sleep for the season. Keep an eye on the forecast, I use Dark Sky.
2. Invest in frost cloths or light bed sheets that you can get dirty if you have to leave your plants outside. If you can bring them in for the winter then please do so. They will not need light, just moisture and temps above freezing.
3. You can purchase or find some styrofoam panels or thick cardboard and wrap any pots in it for insulation. There are greenhouse heaters (and personally I use oil heaters on very low -- DO NOT DO THIS! YOU CAN EASILY START A FIRE IF IT'S UNATTENDED. I have alarm systems and fire fighting equipment on hand).
4. As with the extreme heat, seaweed solution also helps for extreme cold.

As for self wicking pots I personally don't see a problem with them so long as the sump is cleaned regularly. They are good for those with a busy lifestyle and can't maintain water and nutrients schedules.

Dark sky is a very good weather app. A weather app is only as good as its data and they have some of the best. Its rain notifications are top notch, although I'm sure there are locations it isn't as good.

It doesn't look too severe--should stay pretty light. I think there could be a delay, but it should be tapering off by gametime. I'm optimistic that baseball will be played.

Obsidian as recommended by u/astosia lets you use a DarkSky.net API Key. On iOS I set the location for weather to avoid the Pebble app using location tracking as it's always on.

If you set Obsidian to alert you when it loses Bluetooth connection then you'll also know the weather hasn't been updated.

>After lowering it in stages down to 25F,

Unless the heat pumps they install in Arizona are significantly different than those in the midwest, you should be able to set that to 0°F. Heat pumps work fine and still produce heat at a cheaper rate than your aux at below-0 temperatures.

>if the Ecobee uses an Internet derived temperature to determine the outdoor temperature, it could think it's below the minimum temperature threshold when it's not

Yes, this can happen. Ecobee uses Dark Sky as their weather source to try and produce "hyperlocal" weather. That is, weather at your house, not the weather station. This is sometimes wrong, especially if you live near a large body of water or something where temperatures don't exactly follow normal gradients.

If the weather from Dark Sky is wrong, then your ecobee will be wrong and be following the rules wrong. Ecobee support may be able to tweak this if you're seeing wild differences but I'm not sure. There is no other way to provide this information to the ecobee.

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You may want to look into Dark Sky's API (https://darksky.net/dev/docs#api-request-types).

You can make requests into past weather data using it for any location (they use latitude and longitude, so you'd simply need a way to map zip codes to lat/lon) and for any time by using a timestamp (not sure how far back this goes, but since you need recent data I think you'll be fine).

The API is free up to 1000 calls per day, which probably won't be enough to scrape the amount of data you need, but since you're willing to pay, this may not be an issue for you.

Then again, you say you looked into a bunch of APIs, so maybe you've seen this and it doesn't work for you...

Check Environment Canada's weather for Banff, when it's really going to pour it will say "Showers" and put a number in millimetres on the amount of rainfall. Anything else is "chance of showers", often with a percentage such as 30% chance of showers. Technically that 30% means that in 30% of the weather models they've run they got rain, but as a local it often feels more like it's going to rain in the park and there's 30% chance you'll be standing under the cloud when it rains and a 70% chance you'll be standing next to the cloud that's raining.

So if it's 30% you can hope for the best and I wouldn't let it limit your day, there's a chance you won't see rain at all, or just get spit on. If it's 60% I would say expect for it to rain but it might only be for 5 minutes or an hour and not enough to stop you from doing what you're doing, while if it just says showers or if it has it in in millimetres then just know you ware going to get wet, and anything over a few mm means you're going to get drenched, that's when you want to be in shelter and plan for the rain to take up a majority of the day.

As a reference, I'm going camping this weekend and it says 60% chance of showers Fri/Sat and it's not enough for me to change my plans yet, but I might try timing when I set up my tent.

Another good resource is Dark Sky, if you click on the individual days it breaks it down to the hour level, sometimes even the minute, so you can tell if it's going to get better or worse throughout the day and time things well.

Where do you get your data?

Dark Sky uses a wide range of government weather data sources, which are aggregated together statistically to provide the most accurate forecast possible for a given location. You can see our weather data sources here: https://darksky.net/dev/docs/sources

Y en el link solo lista algunas fuentes de Estados Unidos, Canada y El Reino Unido. Osea usa los datos del SMN.

Source

It's been dry and unseasonably warm here the last week or so, so the only snow around is a half snowball's worth in a very few sheltered places at the side of the road where it was piled up by a plow and didn't get much sun. Monday promises a bit of rain followed by snow so that might not be too much fun if there's icy slush on the road. If you're thinking of this weekend for a visit you'll be absolutely and completely fine.

Winter tires will do better on snow and ice of course, but they're also made from a rubber formula that stays flexible in temperatures more than a few degrees below freezing and hence can make better road contact than all-seasons in the actual cold even if it's dry. Personally I swear by them, but that's due to a fishtail experience with the OEM all-seasons in some slush and the experience of finding it virtually impossible to lose traction with them in test conditions (aka "the unplowed mall car park"). If you want to go up a nigh-vertical Duluth side road covered in ice with the temperature in the single digits then you'll have problems. But more generally as long as you drive the conditions, i.e. slowing down and allowing extra stopping distance when required (*), avoiding steep and unsalted roads, and not going out when it's shitty, you'll be fine (unless you're sporting bald or summer tires).

(*) That may be much slower and a lot of extra room. Think of how far back you'd have to drive to feel comfortable about the stopping distance and then double it.

I got dark sky basically because it tells you when it’s going to rain and for how long because I can’t be bothered to carry an umbrella. You can also set daily reminders that tells you if it’s going to rain and all. It also has a globe of it. I got it back when the hype around dark sky was big as a new intuitive weather monitoring system. Take a look at their website here. I think carrot uses the same data.

Seems like fluctuating a bit depending on when you look at it and what site:

https://weather.com/weather/weekend/l/USNJ0128:1:US

https://darksky.net/details/40.834,-74.0971/2017-11-19/us12/en

Either way, appreciate the heads up. Will certainly be monitoring.

As someone who played Blair Walsh (-3) and Nugent (0) in a couple leagues the last two weeks, felt sweet about grabbing Butker and Elliott off byes in those leagues, but good to stay aware of conditions.

In Buenos Aires, go a get a pizza at El Cuartito. Really good pizza, the place gets packed, so be prepared to wait, but it is worth it.

Hope you like lots of sunshine and hot weather ;) ... For next week here in Bs. As. we are going to have ~~a mighty~~ hot weather, nearly summer like, with an occasional shower... Weather is really humid here, so you suffer either the heat or the cold. And I hate the heat.

https://darksky.net, formerly known as https://forecast.io

^^^Yes, ^^^I ^^^used ^^^a ^^^website ^^^that ^^^I ^^^hadn't ^^^visited ^^^in ^^^a ^^^while ^^^so ^^^I ^^^could ^^^stand ^^^out ^^^in ^^^FTF.

I've tried a bunch, and Dark Sky has been the winner for me.

If you want to see what it's like before buying it, try the Dark Sky web app. In Safari on the iphone, you can tell it to make a bookmark on the home screen. The web app has dropdown overlays for the radar view of your choice.

> There is no weather data source that accurately tells you if it's raining on the ground where you are.

>We also only have weak resolution on location

There is actually. It's called hyperlocal forecasting, and of course there's an app for that. It's not perfect, but nothing is.

It has a little screen but the screen isn't live, like a TV, it just displays an image.

So every 15 minutes I get the weather from this API: https://darksky.net/dev/docs/forecast and make it into an image, then dump it to the screen. Perl and ImageMagick, old school.

I'll show you a picture if you want.

Because the skill that I have pulls data from another service ( https://darksky.net/dev/ ) pulls 42 forecast points to get an idea of the cloud cover in a grid to the west (for sunset) or east (for sunrise) to make a prediction of what the quality of the sunrise will be.

For me, 1000 requests/day isn't something I'll hit. 200 people asking "what will the sunset be like" each day and I'm starting to pay money for API calls (not to mention the cost of hosting - insignificant for me, not so much if there are more people using it).

There is already a free built in (no special invocation necessary) forecast. There are scores of other ones by local news stations (that are reminding you that its KAMZ giving you the weather). There's also already a skill that uses Dark Sky API - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GU4MBM4

If you've got the service and its the publicity that you are after, or are facilitating sales to a service (snow report for Sugarloaf mountain) - thats one thing. If you're just a random developer who would start having to pay out of pocket for strangers to use the program with no way of monetizing it - that's a completely different thing.

I'm a little surprised no one's mentioned DarkSky. Absolutely phenomenal craftsmanship on their app, their forecasts are ridiculously good. Projecting that along your route would be so freakin awesome!

Yr.no so far, but I'm slowly working on dark sky support, which should be a great data source for most of the world.

If you check out https://darksky.net, is it accurate compared to what you see outside?

It looks like Austin will be at or above freezing from 1 PM - 10 PM. Note that these temps are for downtown: they will likely be lower in the outlying areas, meaning don't expect to travel through Buda/Kyle at 8 PM and have it be above freezing. https://darksky.net/details/30.2643,-97.7475/2022-2-4/us12/en

Dark Sky is still the best weather app available, but Apple is expected to kill it off at the end of the year, so you might not want to pay for it now. You can use the website for free. Both the app and the website give you hourly wind and wind gust speeds for the next 7 days.

According to this map, it wasn't 65 degrees F anywhere in Alaska on Sunday.

>It’s currently 39 degrees Fahrenheit in Kodiak, Alaska. Pretty warm still for a December night (5:53pm) in Alaska

Lol, you people say anything to keep the BS going.

They were saying on KXAN yesterday. Again "upwards of" as in that was the model that showed the most snowfall. The numbers are changing constantly and there's no clear consensus but, for example DarkSky shows 5-8 inches on Monday

https://darksky.net/forecast/30.4407,-97.6202/us12/en

Thinking about starting Burrow over Lamar.

Sunday's matchup for the Ravens will most likely see rain.

https://darksky.net/details/39.2768,-76.6255/2020-11-1/us12/en

Does this mean slippery Lamar td's?

idk what the best weather sources are for Charlotte, but here's a few:

• https://www.wbtv.com/weather/

• https://darksky.net/details/35.2218,-80.8389/2020-10-29/us12/en

• https://www.wunderground.com/hourly/us/nc/charlotte

I use justwatch.com to see how many seasons of shows are on which services and darksky.net to see a visual representation of the weather and precipitation.

It's already spiking in Great Lakes region where UV is lowest and temps are dropping.

I think we'll see the moderate increase like this from temps dropping, and then major increases when UV drops.

That being said, UV is quite low today already, yikes... https://darksky.net/forecast/40.7127,-74.0059/us12/en

weather:

https://darksky.net/forecast/46.1381,-60.1947/ca12/en

you can use the 'time machine' to go back to various times to see the temps etc.... i dont know what temps you are used to so hard to say when you will need winter gear or not... we have a friend from south africa here that complains about how cold it is some days in october/november... i personally wear shorts until first snow fall sticks.. which could be in december depending where you live

internet speeds will be fine in sydney if you are in the city, internet is mostly shit when it comes to anywhere that isnt in a city, but that is slowly being addressed with some of the new developns projects in the next 2 years as well as starlink

You're giving me the benefit of the doubt? It's not about me. This isn't my opinion. But how magnanimous of you. Here's an example: Abu Dhabi, UAE. Here's their current weather report: https://darksky.net/forecast/24.3659,54.5822/us12/en

>Temperature: 94 F

>Dew point: 87 F

>Heat index: 130 F

Dew points in the 80s combined with temperatures in the 90s are beyond human habitability. And this is their weather at 8 pm, local time. Do you consider that habitable?

The fact that anyone lives there is owed only to air conditioning. And reliance on air conditioning just to survive puts enormous strain on the power grid, which is more than likely still backed by non-renewable energy in a place like the UAE. It's a vicious feedback loop: hotter, more humid weather causes people to stay inside more, placing more demand on air conditioning, and by extension the power grid, which causes accelerated global warming.

For some more reading on the upcoming wet-bulb crisis:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/05/04/world-heat-conditions-unlivable-global-warming-unabated/3063849001/

Deaths from climate change are already baked in the cake: https://eos.org/articles/the-first-undeniable-climate-change-deaths

Yeah high pressure means low percentage of clouds and clear skies. Good seeing requires a stable atmosphere so high pressure for dayz. But weather is a hard thing to predict even in the short future. The computational resources dedicated to weather forecasting are huge. As far as reliability of the forecast a friend of mine is an airline pilot and he told me they use the Herlofson's nomogram to predict weather changes when planning their routes.. that's a bit overkill though haha

The best resource for us it's probably http://clearoutside.com/ as gives lots of info at a glance about meaningful parameters. I think the mobile app plots atmospheric transparency too. Sometimes i use https://darksky.net (cloud graph) to see if clouds are going to clear within the time i have.

Other than that there's no need to overthink it. Just check the sky every now and then in the day and notice what kind of weather implies clear astronomical night skies. It's part of the learning curve :) For me here I get the best seeing either in cold winter nights or in autumn after a quick rain followed by a breeze. Rain freshens up the air and washes out particles while the wind clears the clouds away. Observing stars' brightness and the 'twinkling' are also good indicators.. If stars look smaller and less bright than usual it's probably hazy, the sky will look brighter most likely so transparency will be mediocre, meaning you'll be restricted to lower power. Judge stars when you're a bit dark adapted.

You'll learn how the sky affects the image at the eyepiece only if you observe with mediocre/bad seeing.

Try checking out APIS like The DarkSky API, or the google APIs. Those will help you get started pretty quickly. Do you already know what an API is, and how to use one? Like GET requests and such?

I wear a baseball hat and wipe my head as needed. I literally carry the hat in my hand.

Run when the suns down. I'm learning it's really about UV light though. Wait till the UV levels are like 3 or less. 1 or 0 preferred!

https://darksky.net/

I've literally run twice a day to get my miles in when it got too hot. Remember, it's about total miles. You can run 2 now and 2 later. Hours apart!

In heat, run with the wind to start. Then run into the wind for half two. Into the wind helps cool once your body has heated up. Even running a zip zag pattern through a city so you get 0.2 miles with the wind, 0.2 miles left/right breeze and 0.2 miles into the wind and 0.2 right/;left breeze/repeat is a strategy I employ some times. Small towns can accommodate this.

Run in the shade. Plan your runs for this. If the woods are not buggy, do runs in the woods. The only problem there is you are trading shade for wind. If you run early or late once hte sun is down, it will be cooler and there will be less sun. WIN WIN!

Do not ignore humidity. I'll take 50% humidity at 90 degrees over 90% humidity at 80 degrees. Low humidity means your sweat leaves your body .... that's how your body is made to cool itself down.

Run close to home base. If you bonk, make sure your home/car is near. If you can run early or late, consider the track.

Remember the signs of dehydration.

Looking at their API, it looks like Dark Sky has external data sources. However, some of the source descriptions suggest that they transform some of the data, making Dark Sky a separate data source.

I bet Apple uses Dark Sky’s data for the regions it supports, but external ones for the rest.

Man patīk izmantot darksky.net, tāpēc, ka vari pa stundām redzēt: https://darksky.net/details/56.968,24.163/2020-6-11/si12/en

Vienīgi, API vairs nav pieejams kopš Apple viņus pārpirka.

Dark Sky’s API shut down a few months ago actually when they announced Apple’s acquisition, so new developers can’t use it to check weather anymore

The stocks widget will be updated soon, it seems to show 0.00 for everybody starting a couple weeks ago.

As for the activity rings, assuming you have an Apple Watch paired, go to Settings > Privacy > Health > Clock > Then turn Activity ON

Phoenix AZ is going to be over 100 today.

Go to darksky.net, zoom out, select Temperature. The north east US is below average, the south west might be above average.

2020 is going to be a wild year for extreme weather.

Dark Sky isn't showing any big increase in the % chance of precipitation.

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Relevant excerpt from the NWS forecast discussion:

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>Some hi resolution models are indicating the potential for isolated to scattered storms initiating across portions of the northern Hill Country late this afternoon and moving east and southeast into portions of the I-35 corridor during the early evening, while others are not showing much. Should convection initiate, the best chances will be along and north of a Fredericksburg to Austin line. Large scale forcing is relatively weak, and the 00Z hi resolution models are much less bullish on convection developing south of this line compared to yesterday's 12Z runs, with the exception of convection across southwest areas and Mexico. Any storms that do form during peak heating in the late afternoon, and carrying into the early evening, will have the potential to become severe. MLCAPE values in excess of 3000 J/kg, steep mid level lapse rates, and adequate deep layer shear will support a risk of large hail, with potentially significant hail as indicated by SPC`s hatched area on the Day 1 Convective Outlook. A few damaging wind gusts are also possible. It should be stressed that all of this is highly conditional on convection even initiating.

I've killed my dark sky component in HA and moved to a different weather source. I've also added darksky.net to my list of blacklisted websites. Darksky is a great platform and insane website. I've recommended it to many of my friends and family. But apple buys them out... and I'm done. I don't care if it is the best option right now. I want absolutely nothing to do with that company.

I've read some nations are trying to research perennial wheat/grain/rice, i.e. the plants don't die after harvest, which saves time and labour compared to current replanting from scratch after every harvest.

Another is accuracy of weather prediction. I don't know how our MET is utilized by our farmers, but I do for my own farm, though I used a more detailed website. Detailed, but not necessary very accurate. Weather damage is a real thing, what we plant needs to coincide with best weather conditions for best output. Which is why some farmers gave up and just go with the easiest crops.

As for vertical farming, I'm on the fence on this one. This require huge investment on the infrastructure, which is not viable for startups. Another is the environmental impact that everyone is still ignoring. Unless you can invest in precise measuring and able to mix chemicals to re-balance the nutrient contents in the water, most often time the water have to be discarded after a few harvests/seasons. The nutrients in the water will be out of balance because different plants have different needs in nutrient. You can precisely mix recommended chemicals initially, but by the end certain nutrients will be leftover. Mixing it again with same mixture will cause toxicity to the plants. If the practise is to replace such water, then this causes environmental impact. Those now toxic water is also toxic for the land or waterway. For home practice, should be OK if the gardener is aware. Imagine large scale hydroponic though, the damage will be huge since I am not confident of our farmers who often disregard or ignorant of the environments.

What the fuck? So apple buys them and then demands they shut down not only the android app but the INTERNET access to? So you can no longer browse to darksky.net and see it online? Are you fucking kidding me apple?