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Thanks for taking a look!

It’s a good question. Initially, the URL was lat/long values, and then I did try place names. I ended up with the short code approach to minimise API calls to downstream services. …

I’ve had a few pieces of feedback for plain text, and it’s definitely something I’ll look at adding. OOI, would you expect the output to include a single days weather (like the sit…

Thanks! I’ve also got a long list of additional data I’d like to see, such as sunrise / sunset times and astrological activity like upcoming meteor showers etc. I’m starting to thi…

It uses open-meteo.com. Their forecast API returns data from around 30 different models depending on location, and typically uses Met Office data in the UK. I don’t force to only M…

I love this idea. The brolly logo at the top of the page is also a unicode character, so this fits well.

Interesting, I’d have naively assumed that’d be cached after first load by Chrome. Definitely one to investigate further.

Sorry about this, and thank you for the heads up. The site runs as a PocketBase instance on a small 512mb DigitalOcean droplet in their London DC, and is getting more load than usu…

I’ll definitely look at adding this in, along with potential the wet bulb temperature. Thanks for the feedback!

That’s frustrating, thank you for the feedback. I’ll take a look at improving the search and potentially switching out the API provider. I currently use open-meteo as I was already…

Great suggestion, thank you. I’ll definitely keep that in mind as an improvement. There’s been some other feedback that it’d be good if there was a ‘true’ plain text only mode, and…

Thanks for the feedback! I agree, it’s definitely something to work on as it takes up a considerable amount of vertical space. I found the precipitation chart challenging as you ne…

The UK MET office recently redesigned their site, adding a lot of additional whitespace, scrolling, and animations. This significantly reduced its usability for me, and left me wan…

This is pretty cool. This functionality is called ‘break back’ in a lot of enterprise modelling software. See [IBM TM1]( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-planning/10.2.1?topic=br…

York, UK currently has 1Gb coverage across about a 1/4 of the city, with the rest being connected in the next year I believe. Only £25 ($32) a month.