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Mind sharing what location service you are using ? You nailed both my wired and 4g location, and I live in a small village here in Spain.
https://ip-api.com/
thanks
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This doesn't seem to work on desktop? I've never heard of F as the more 'human' temperature range. Don't you either use C or F. Since I've never used F it doesn't seem more human to me.
On desktop you may need to adjust the browser window size until it's portrait aspect ratio. On windows I snap it to half the screen. In landscape the app shows the extended forecast. Sorry I'm on mobile and can't link directly to the relevant part of the video: https://youtu.be/BMGrsOawKac Basically F gives more precise info/digit for the temperature ranges humans experience. 99F is near the top of the range, while 9…
> Basically F gives more precise info/digit for the temperature ranges humans experience. 99F is near the top of the range, while 99C is unheard of for weather on Earth. So F gives approximately twice the precision. To get the same precision in C you have to add decimals
Same amount of bits used either way, i.e., you can also use dezi-Celsius, e.g. 22.5 °C = 225° dC, while not commonly used when displaying it, it gives just the same info and is often used in µC; so that's really not an argument for Fahrenheit.
The top-range being 100 °F is just nonsense, there are lots of places with 110° F (~43° C) and also some with 120°F (~50° C) and some places that top out at 70° F (~21° C) in summer. Also, that would imply that bottom is 0° F (~ -17° C) and mid-range is 50° F (~ 10° C), both aren't true for either observed temperatures in most parts of the world nor would 50° F be a good level for human comfort, which is subjective anyhow.
The single thing that could make one think that a temperature scale is a better fit for human consumption is being used to that scale. If one grows up with °F then naturally °F is the scale than one can better relate to, similar with Celsius.
The actual benefits of Celsius are relation to freezing and boiling point (combined with barometric pressure) of water, something that is daily used by a lot of people (cook pasta, make ice cubes, know not to lick metal poles at In addition to that it scales 1:1 with Kelvin, a scale that actually has a defined lower end that matters a lot in our universe.
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#113A lot of talk about geo here.
Offtopic. But I'm looking for datasets that tested for blue-green algae in still water/rivers.
Required info:
- Date of test
- Location of the test ( or some info so that i can link it together)
- Status ( measurements that detect blue-green algae)
This is usually measured by a lab and as a outdoor swimmer, i've encountered a lot of issues when there are blue algues.
I'm hoping to create a ML-app that predicts the results ( free ).
Contact me at nico-algues [at] sapico.me
(I've already got test results back from Belgium, not much response from the Netherlands and the UK)
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Nice app! Could you please include Celsius as option?
If you're referring to https://uw.leftium.com/ , tap the temperature in landscape mode ;) The app defaults to F because it gives the more "human" temperature range.
Yes I was referring to leftum. Can't you just check the IP? Or introduce a toggle on desktop?
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Limit per IP address?
CGNAT has made the blast radius of that technique really large.
The API responded to me over IPv6 so while the consumer market will take time to get over to full IPv6 you can still setup your server today to offer IPv4/6 to your users and connect to this API via IPv6 which will eliminate you getting blocked in a CGNAT blast radius.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're referring to https://uw.leftium.com/ , tap the temperature in landscape mode ;) The app defaults to F because it gives the more "human" temperature range.
Yes I was referring to leftum. Can't you just check the IP? Or introduce a toggle on desktop?
The app's main use case was for mobile, where you can easily toggle between portrait and landscape.
And I am using it fine on desktop by toggling with the Windows snap feature.
But yes, a toggle on desktop would be nice and more user-friendly...
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On desktop you may need to adjust the browser window size until it's portrait aspect ratio. On windows I snap it to half the screen. In landscape the app shows the extended forecast. Sorry I'm on mobile and can't link directly to the relevant part of the video: https://youtu.be/BMGrsOawKac Basically F gives more precise info/digit for the temperature ranges humans experience. 99F is near the top of the range, while 9…
> Basically F gives more precise info/digit for the temperature ranges humans experience. 99F is near the top of the range, while 99C is unheard of for weather on Earth. So F gives approximately twice the precision. To get the same precision in C you have to add decimals Same amount of bits used either way, i.e., you can also use dezi-Celsius, e.g. 22.5 °C = 225° dC, while not commonly used when displaying it, it giv…
Yes, same amount of bits, but different number of digits and thus screen real estate.
I was speaking from personal experience. One of the reasons I made it easy to toggle between F and C in my app was so I could adjust from F to C (in Korea). I think it worked and I am comfortable using both C and F now (although I admit I am more accustomed to F).
However, one thing I noticed when I switch to C in my app is I get less information. I have seen systems that double the C reading to get a similar precision as F, but then it is no longer really C.
My point was not that temperatures don't go over 100F, but that F uses the entire range of 2-digit readings. C only uses half of the positive 2-digit range.
Also because freezing in F is above 0, you can show a useful range of temperatures below freezing before having to add a negative sign.
So I still argue F is more information-dense than C given a 2-digit temperature reading for weather.
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Thanks for your suggestions! I will add precipitation probability as soon as I include 14-day ensemble weather models. Deterministic whether models usually do not offer this directly. I also really like the 2 days historical access :) At some point I would like to add more, but the storage requirements skyrocket quickly. Not only in space, but also disk IO to perform in-place updates. For air quality data I want to a…
Hi Geoff, I currently build ensemble based modelling solutions for bushfire/wildfire. Weather is a significant component in how fire behaves and is forecast. Whilst I have access commercially to several models and meteorologists through work I'd be keen on chatting with you a little further about the possibility of including fire weather metrics in your forecasts, or at least using the data in bulk if possible to inc…
Sure, what kind of fire weather metrics could be added? Can they be derived from soil moisture, temperature, wind, humidity? Or are you referring to gridded fire indices from a different source?
For now I would refrain to include data that is non-date or has restrictive licences.
You can find my email on the open-meteo site and drop me some information
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Glad you like it! Bootstrap v5 helped a lot :) I hope to improve the UX a bit further with a city-search for example. Unfortunately I am lacking a good geocoding API for that.
You could export Wikidata objects if it is good enough for you to cover 99% of all places.
I was thinking to use the geonames location database and build a simple fuzzy search engine around it.
What wikidata objects are you referring to?
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#120I've investigated and tried several (free) weather API's for my web app: https://uw.leftium.com . Open-Meteo looks pretty good! The only thing that seems to be missing for me is precipitation probability. The weathercode is sort of a proxy for this... I'm also interested in sunrise/sunset times; direct_radiation is kind of a proxy for this. Kudos for providing optional historical data with the same API call for the f…
does your app believe today is Thursday?