Show HN: Briefsky – a free Dark Sky clone for multiple weather APIs

Post by zie » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:12 PM UTC

gpm wrote: post #40

zie wrote: post #37

The US government has a public, free API for getting weather data, and it will spit out JSON even. http://api.weather.gov documentation here: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api I never understood why people go through all these other API's that consistently get shut down, cancelled or become pay for use eventually.

Seems to be limited to the US only? Plugging in a random location in Canada and I get "Unable to provide data for requested point 45.5451,-78.8739" Which is really disappointing, since the weather models they use must model the entire world...

Post by rks404 » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 12:25 AM UTC

wlesieutre wrote: post #33

npilk wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI, the iOS Weather app does have this now. If you click on a day in the 10-day forecast, you get a detail view with hour-by-hour forecast data for many metrics. One of them is pressure (although I don't normally look at barometric pressure so maybe this different than what you need). Edit: You can also click on the "pressure" widget and it brings up the same hour-by-hour detail view.

"Chance of precipitation" isn't one of them though, they'll only give you a predicted inches of rainfall. Should I assume that if there's a nonzero amount of rain in the graph it's a definitely going to happen and I should carry around my umbrella? Darksky used to make that really easy to check for the entire day and I'm not loving Weather as a replacement.

Post by askvictor » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 12:43 AM UTC

vsergeev wrote: post #15

Gys wrote: post #9

Would be nice if it automatically uses degrees Celcius instead of Fahrenheit if the location is Europe. Also for visibility and wind speed, km instead of mi.

I considered handling this with some coarse longitude heuristic, but settled on just using the browser's locale for now, so it should default to metric for non-US locales. In the metric setting, the visibility and wind speed will be km and km/h, respectively.

Post by Leftium » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 1:14 AM UTC

O1111OOO wrote: post #25

For a long while, I had been looking for Weather Apps with great UIs. They seemed so hard to find. Now I have two that look great on the Desktop and easy on the eyes (ie; without the chaos I find on other sites): https://merrysky.net/ and https://briefsky.app/ Only tested on the Desktop but I'm finding I have to do a bit more work (vs MerrySky) - that is, I have to keep clicking each day. Usability could be improved…

Post by Leftium » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 1:22 AM UTC

vsergeev wrote: post #27

Zetice wrote: post #5

Nice! Small feature request; when I paste in from Google's "copy coordinates" feature, it could detect my paste contents are "coord,coord" and populate the form appropriately, splitting on the ",".

Thanks, I'll add it to my list. At some point I was thinking of adding a location search too, just depends on a free & reliable geocoding API.