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so clouds, a cron job, and golang walk into a bar
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Figure out the best weather source #2

Open spotlightishere opened 6 years ago

spotlightishere commented 6 years ago

We haven't decided the best weather source. @zenpowerbuilder said they'd be okay with messing around and figuring out the best weather source for our needs.

Currently suggested:

Both have limits, and we'd need to scale accordingly.

luceboxed commented 6 years ago

DarkSky seems to be more accurate, but this isn’t taking into mind limits.

luceboxed commented 6 years ago

Ok so I’ve been comparing them DarkSky —�—�—�— Has hourly forecasts Exact and “Feels Like” Temps High and Low Temps Up to 7 day outlook Wind Speed and Direction Seems more accurate than Openweathermap (OWM) Doesn’t seem to have as much as OWM. Has “Time Travel” to show you weather in the past and future (will grab exact times later) Dew Points UV Index Visibility Pressure World Wide Map Openweathermap —�—�—�—�—�—�—�— Current Temps See up to 16 days in future Tri-hourly (I hope I said that right) Weather Historic Temps Pressure Humidity Wind Speed and Direction Sunrise/Sunset Times Global Map Seems to have more than DarkSky (DS) Seems less accurate than DS

luceboxed commented 6 years ago

Exact times for DS’s Time Travel 70years into the past 10years into the future

luceboxed commented 6 years ago

^ The above is what the weather app CARROT says, which uses Dark Sky. It could be wrong tho, but I'm going to guess its right.