Just to throw this out there, most of this is already presented directly by the National Weather Service:
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=35.73285&lo...
Visualising weather reports as a graph
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#12flash? try again please.
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#13I use this service all the time since I found out about it last year (on HN) because it gives me more information than I will ever need and still makes it easy to consume. The most unique aspect of this implementation is the historical data they provide to give you an idea of weather even when there is no forecast. This is unbelievably valuable when planning a trip to a new region of the world and I routinely use it to plot my locations and timing accordingly.
The only real problem I have with this site is the heavy dependence on flash, and a few clunky UI controls when interacting with the graph over a long period of time.
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#14flash? try again please.
if it's not HTML5 you're not interested?
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#15Very cool, wish I had known about this before I built my own. Of course, building my own let me tailor it to the data and style I wanted (http://dustytome.net/demos/widg/).
As a side note: is there any place to get free(ish) weather forecasts? I've been using Wunderground's API (which is nice), but I don't see any way to let multiple people use it without shelling out more money than I can justify at the moment.
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#16Very similar to the My-Cast Weather app in horizontal orientation.
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#17I really like the way that the Norwegian site yr.no does this: http://www.yr.no/place/United_States/California/San_Francisc... Nice and simple, without any fancy Flash/animation going on. Take a look at the "Detailed" view to see pressure and cloud cover on the same graph. Compare the two of them, and I find this much more readable.
We've got a simplified version that's html-only in the pipeline, should be out "any day now", so do check back.
(disclosure: I'm one of the devs on the site)
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#18Loading Google Maps plugin... If you're using HTTPS Everywhere please disable it for GoogleMaps since it makes the authorization request fail. Tools Menu -> Add Ons -> HTTPS Everywhere Options -> Search for 'GoogleMaps' -> Click on the green check mark to turn it into a red x. Is this a problem with the google maps 'plugin' or their implementation?
The authorization request that the google maps flash SDK issues to google fails when it's issued as an https request. The HTTPS everywhere plugin forcibly changes the request type, thereby making it fail.
AFAIK there's no way to fix it on our side.
(I'm one of the devs on weatherspark)
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#19Just to throw this out there, most of this is already presented directly by the National Weather Service: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=35.73285&lo...
... and most computer languages are turing equivalent, yet people prefer different ones ;)
Seriously, yes, all the data is freely available in some combination of text and graphics on the internets - the pitch here is the presentation, aggregation and ease of exploration.
(disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)
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#20I use this service all the time since I found out about it last year (on HN) because it gives me more information than I will ever need and still makes it easy to consume. The most unique aspect of this implementation is the historical data they provide to give you an idea of weather even when there is no forecast. This is unbelievably valuable when planning a trip to a new region of the world and I routinely use it…
We recently added some very simple keyboard controls: the arrow keys (left-right: pan, up-down: zoom), that might alleviate that problem a little.
Yes, you need to click in the app once to give it focus before it registers the keyboard clicks. Just one of the many little gotchas with flash... (don't get me started ;)
(disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)