Ventusky – Weather data visualization • Hacker News Board

patatino wrote: post #7

davidjgraph wrote: post #5

Very nice, although default of Fahrenheit, really? The date format is ISO rather than US by default. Maybe a master switch [US|Countries in the 21st Century] 8-)

My default was celsius. Firefox, language de

Connected from France, Firefox in english, default was °F

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Post by sambe » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 1:54 PM UTC

patatino wrote: post #7

davidjgraph wrote: post #5

Very nice, although default of Fahrenheit, really? The date format is ISO rather than US by default. Maybe a master switch [US|Countries in the 21st Century] 8-)

My default was celsius. Firefox, language de

Also Celsius for me, seems likely to be region/locale based (as it should be, I'd say).

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Post by caub » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 1:54 PM UTC

pawelduda wrote: post #8

Looks very similar to Windytv ( https://www.windytv.com/ ). Are these websites somehow related?

I think they all use the same lib for drawing those vectors, leaflet I think

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Post by nathancahill » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 1:55 PM UTC

Looks like Dark Sky[0] has a competitor. I'll probably use both of these side by side.

[0] https://darksky.net/

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Post by a-ve » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

Great website.

On a side note, you can see the Himalayas doing their job: https://www.ventusky.com/?p=32.15;78.51;6&l=pressure

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Post by xjay » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC

Related: Site for tracking lightning/thunderstorms [1].

Warning: Sound is on by default. Disable by clicking Sound in the menu on the lower left.

[1] http://blitzortung.org/

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Post by philfrasty » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC

For remote locations I find the NASA worldview pretty accurate for weather predictions. Just came back from the Seychelles, basically any weather forecast was completely off.

Just by looking at the NASA satellite images you could roughly predict the cloud movements for the next day and though next sunshine :)

EDIT: link https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

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Post by mrestko » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 2:00 PM UTC

Number one criteria I look for in weather sites is that they pin my CPU to 100%.

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Post by oliv__ » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 2:01 PM UTC

wazari972 wrote: post #12

patatino wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My default was celsius. Firefox, language de

Connected from France, Firefox in english, default was °F

Same here.