Closed jkc120 closed 1 year ago
Thanks for the report, though i'm sure this could be an issue with the wttr.in
API itself the library is using.
Today i tried looking up Atlanta, GA
on weather.com
and it yielded the temperature as 76 degrees.
After comparing it with wttr.in
's results:
Atlanta
yields 75 degreesAtlanta, GA
yields 71 degreesSo, this could be either an issue with the API being inaccurate, or the fact that the API doesn't handle requests in a {city}, {state}
format well.
For what it's worth, wttr.in
's data for my region seems to be about 10 degrees (f) off from what google (citing weather.com
) shows me, too.
Things seem off even by zip code. Example for Folsom, CA's zip:
% ./w.py 95630 84 Haze
Google's weather result reports 89 and sunny.
And for Richmond, CA, Google's weather reports 71 and mostly sunny as compared to:
% ./w.py 94805 83 Sunny
Things seem off even by zip code. Example for Folsom, CA's zip:
% ./w.py 95630 84 Haze
Google's weather result reports 89 and sunny.
And for Richmond, CA, Google's weather reports 71 and mostly sunny as compared to:
% ./w.py 94805 83 Sunny
the reason could be what i've said earlier
Correct, the CLI wttr.in seems to match with this module, so it seems to be related to the backend data source?
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For what it's worth, wttr.in's data for my region seems to be about 10 degrees (f) off from what google (citing weather.com) shows me, too.
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Sounds like it!
I'm getting wildly inaccurate temperatures and I cannot pinpoint why. I thought it was because the city was obscure/smaller, but even for some larger cities, it's way off.
Here's some sample code:
Output for "Folsom, CA":
% ./w.py "Folsom, CA" 75 Sunny
weather.com reports sunny and 82 and accuweather 85, so 75 seems way off. Even for Atlanta, GA it's off:
% ./w.py "Atlanta, GA" 74 Partly cloudy
weather.com reports partly cloudy and 78, and accuweather 79.
Note that I'm not even using the zip code lookup. I've also tried without the state with different (but also inaccuate) results:
% ./w.py Atlanta 71 Partly cloudy
Here's the version I'm using with Python 3.9:
% /usr/bin/python3.9 -c 'import python_weather; print(python_weather.version)' 0.4.1
Thanks, Josh