This appears to be a fairly low effort simulation of a WeatherStar 4000, but it's been done much better by someone else here: https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/
Also for those of us like me who grew up with a cable provider that still ran the old WeatherStar III, there's this one: https://weatherstar3000.netbymatt.com/
As others have stated, no, this isn't a simulation of WeatherStar. It does, however, look exactly like the weather channel did when I was a kid. (New Jersey and Maryland, in the 80s and 90s)
This reminds me of a sports channel I recall from the late 80s on cable TV. Sportsnet? Sportswire? I can't find anything about it online but I remember the music well.
I can't remember either but they nailed it. When the sax comes in and the voice overlay hit's you with "Your extended forecast"; I'm right back in the kitchen before school eating cereal with the kitchen TV on the weather channel.
Edit: another comment mentioned it was generated with Suno
It's nearly perfect. My only complaint is I wish it would keep playing on repeat, and rotate through more smooth jazz. Then I could have this on a screen in my living room, fall asleep on my couch in a snuggie, and wake up to its garish light and jazz at 3am just like old times
Awesome, nice retro vibe. I used to build these channels back in the day in Scala Info channel (narrowcasting) for hospitals and radio stations etc. Would love to see a metric switch to C en km/h
This is really cool. But showing Fahrenheit, despite everything else is perfectly localized, for my home town Hamburg in Germany, is somewhat useless. Guys from the US, we use Celcius here! :-P
This hit the nostalgia hard. To complete this would be an IPTV feed to stream it through my TV. It would be nice to be able to wake up and put this on while eating breakfast.
Great job. Thanks. Why the intermittant timed stop? Is it just to break it up since its a short clip?
Like others have said, there are several projects recreating the old weather channel vibe, each with its own spin. And if you don't need current weather info, there are some good yt vids that play old clips with the music in the background.
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Good job Weather Channel dev. I just wish it would loop forever. Make a loop checkbox at the start screen.
Also the music slaps.
Edit: another comment mentioned it was generated with Suno
Probably still a rpi.
What kind of sensitive thing is there that the page must be region-restricted?
Thank you so much, y'all!
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