If you haven't try windy.com. Switched a while back (Central/West Georgia with same micro climate issue south of Carrolton). It works well for me ...phone app on the tractor is handy. They just switched their forecast model, a week ago?, so I don't have experience with the new model.
Their 10-day weather graph is one of my favorite interfaces. There is no better way to grasp the weather, and it transformed my conception of daily weather patterns. Try it:
I completely agree, as a long term WU user I am continually frustrated by their newer site design. The 10-day view is my favorite one but their site reliability and speed are atrocious. Like others in this thread I've been wondering what's going on over there and if they are just going to shut down some day. I used to even have my weather station send data to WU but I stopped doing that because I don't see any value in doing it anymore because their site sucks. Wundermap is slow as well and I've had issues with their iOS app lately too.
I would love to hear what people are using as alternatives. I already use Dark Sky on iOS as well, so that's one. I just want a good 10 day view :(
wunderground is my favorite, and I have a PWS that contributes to it, and I love the 10 day graph, but damn I was pissed when it was no longer the default view.
It seems spotty as to whether it remembers to use my PWS or not.
I just paid for Carrot (iOS weather app) plus the uberpremium subscription version so I can use WU data in it.
I use the similar (but a bit wonkier) weather.gov graphs. I have it bookmarked on my phone, for checking the weather before I ride. After a bit you can figure it out at a glance. It also tells me sunrise and sunset times.
Unfortunately I don't think so. You use the "forward 2 days" button" to get more data, but they don't fit it on one page. You can get about 6 days total
They have a regular 7 day forecast[1] with text, but I prefer the graph for my commute.
There was no way of knowing it was abandoned. I am taking a guess at the length of time ago it happened; my guess is informed by lack of quality of service and public-facing updates. It's reasonable to assume that the API degraded in quality over time as fewer and fewer / maybe no people were working on it.
I think it happened around May/June/July ish of this year. I remember creating a free acct using the free tier API for a coding project I did for an interview around April. Shortly after they killed the free access and I guess now it is totally dead :(
TWC is owned by IBM as well. With TWC absorbing Weather Underground you would think they would continue to support the great work from wunderground. In reality, seems that is not the case.
It's IBM. I'm not sure what's keeping this shell of a company functioning, but they are not a company I'd want to work at, if you could find a non-outsourced job, with regular layoffs and insane demands on their people. None of the people I know who've worked there have spoken well of it.
They do offer a free API but it is nowhere near as full-featured as WU. They have many tens of thousands fewer weather stations that report current conditions, for example. The variables returned are fewer when it comes to conditions and forecasts. Additionally, depending on your pay tier, WU had all kinds of historical info + specialized weather forecasts that NWS/NOAA does not offer. Even metrics like UV are rarely in NWS API products but could be expected from WU.
WU was also global, while NWS is US-only.
I love the NWS API btw. It's just nowhere near what the WU API was in terms of the promised data returned from API calls. NWS API has always been far superior when it comes to uptime!
They do offer a free API but it is nowhere near as full-featured as WU.
While I don't disagree with you that the NWS has thousands fewer weather stations than WU, it should be noted that the NWS has very strict standards for weather sampling and reporting.
NWS weather stations are set up in a particular way to ensure consistent, accurate data. WU, less so.
For example, last week I was in a part of the country where the only weather station for 80 miles was a PWS from WU. According to its data, there is a 40-degree (F) spike in temperature every morning around 7am. Clearly, this is a thermometer that is being affected by the sunrise. This doesn't happen to NWS equipment.
I wouldn't count on NWS surviving the Trump administration, for that matter. There has been a strong push to privatize it going back to the Bush #43 era.
For users, none at all. I'm sort of assuming the thing wasn't stable enough to stay up without ongoing effort, given that they seem to have stopped maintaining/supporting it a bit ago and only now killed it off. But for everyone except IBM, this is clearly negative.
For the users of that data none. For them the one where 95% broken was a pain to maintain and wasn't bringing in much money. "We realized we needed ... for our API users" is meaningless pretty much every decision gets some justification where it's somehow better for the users but it's just a thin enamel over whatever real business justification there is 95% of the time.
I have a client who had me start a project 5 years ago to create a new product line; we integrated some weather API into it years ago and I couldn't remember who we used, but I just checked and it turns out that it is Wunderground.com--- but the lucky part is that the product is still unreleased due to scope creep, bad specifications, and horrendous delays. So I guess this is just one more delay to re-implement the weather functionality. You know there's trouble when your APIs start dropping off like this... We probably won't be finished for a long time yet anyways! I wonder what the next API to close will be...
What a shame. Carrot Weather is by far my favorite weather app ever, but here in Europe, its forecast is useless unless you pay extra to get the weather underground data. Then it’s in-line with what all other local weather forecasts produce.
I assume with the API going away so will carrot weather's access to weather underground.
Similar story with the tech consultancy I work for. IBM tried to pitch the WU API to us during the summer for a large-ish project for a major client of ours. Thank god we ended up going with Dark Sky instead or that could've been quite a few man hours down the drain, not to mention us looking bad to the client.
This is what the developers I know have been doing as well.
Ambient Weather has been moving into the PWS data space. They have released their own smartphone apps and they have an API:
https://www.ambientweather.com/api.html
So now I'm confused by this. On one hand they say they are retiring it, then they say
"For developers who use WU API data for non-commercial purposes, you will have access to a new plan for a personal use, low call volume API. Stay tuned for more details as we build this out."
Being a user this lack of clarity is annoying (a free one, but my previous company paid for the service.)
I learned how to the api it 5 years ago while working at a start up when they needed weather to normalize data. It was pretty easy to use and the price was decent.
I got a free developer account and get the weather at my location every hour with their free developer api..
The site compares the last 90 days vs last year so as a New Englander I can be sure when complaining about the weather that it was in fact better last year.[1]
They still have some random dropouts and errors. Occasionally they'll send malformed json to the mobile app and it'll crash. Often times data from my weather station is rejected for no reason. Sometimes the 10 day graph just doesn't work or other data goes missing.
And of course they have no real support. It's a shame because having all the nearby weather stations aggregating data makes for some pretty accurate weather.
Carrot Weather's uber-premium subscription level is more expensive PRECISELY because of the access to WU data. I hope it includes the new pricing model, since I just paid for it.. yesterday.
Anybody knows a good, worldwide weather "niceness" rating API with a free tier? The only scoring system I found was the Hugo Poppe method[0], but seems like I'd have to implement it myself.
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https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/san-francisco
Don't overlook the Customize button at the top right.
For example I waited 82 seconds for your link to load and another 55 seconds after clicking 10-Day, on a 40mbps connection.
I would love to hear what people are using as alternatives. I already use Dark Sky on iOS as well, so that's one. I just want a good 10 day view :(
I use the similar (but a bit wonkier) weather.gov graphs. I have it bookmarked on my phone, for checking the weather before I ride. After a bit you can figure it out at a glance. It also tells me sunrise and sunset times.
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3761&lon=-7...
They have a regular 7 day forecast[1] with text, but I prefer the graph for my commute.
[1]https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3761&lon=-7...
I feel like weather.gov is 80-90% of the way there, but having incrementally grown the ui/ux feels dated and needs a little love.
So, you put months of work into a project, using an API that you knew was abandoned? And it's anybody's fault other than you own?
You would be correct, they're owned by IBM: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/weather-underg...
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Forecast.aspx (click the "graph" tab)
WU was also global, while NWS is US-only.
I love the NWS API btw. It's just nowhere near what the WU API was in terms of the promised data returned from API calls. NWS API has always been far superior when it comes to uptime!
While I don't disagree with you that the NWS has thousands fewer weather stations than WU, it should be noted that the NWS has very strict standards for weather sampling and reporting.
NWS weather stations are set up in a particular way to ensure consistent, accurate data. WU, less so.
For example, last week I was in a part of the country where the only weather station for 80 miles was a PWS from WU. According to its data, there is a 40-degree (F) spike in temperature every morning around 7am. Clearly, this is a thermometer that is being affected by the sunrise. This doesn't happen to NWS equipment.
Edit: some suggested homework before downvoting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...
I assume with the API going away so will carrot weather's access to weather underground.
Now in case of carrot, I guess having unreliable forecasts is totally in line with the other tangential functionality of the app anyways :-)
Ambient Weather has been moving into the PWS data space. They have released their own smartphone apps and they have an API: https://www.ambientweather.com/api.html
Hopefully they can do a firmware update with a new data source.
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
Being a user this lack of clarity is annoying (a free one, but my previous company paid for the service.)
I learned how to the api it 5 years ago while working at a start up when they needed weather to normalize data. It was pretty easy to use and the price was decent.
I got a free developer account and get the weather at my location every hour with their free developer api..
The site compares the last 90 days vs last year so as a New Englander I can be sure when complaining about the weather that it was in fact better last year.[1]
http://aramcomjean.com/weather.html
http://www.weather.gov for ad free! day to day forecasting needs.
And of course they have no real support. It's a shame because having all the nearby weather stations aggregating data makes for some pretty accurate weather.
[0] http://www.meteovista.com/weather-rating/2971/0