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Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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Post by jacobn »

farico wrote: post #8

Would be cool if you changed Europe/Vilnius shortcut to Lithuania with capital Vilnius and not Vilniusstrasse in Austria :) http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=Europe/Vilnius suggesting to replace it with: http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;ws=29009 By the way I really like viewing weather as graph! Nicely done.

Yes, yahoo's geocoding is not perfect... Searching for just "Vilnius" does the right thing though, and takes you to:

http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=Republic_of_Lithuania/...

(disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)

Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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Post by jacobn »

meanderingleaf wrote: post #15

Very 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.

NOAA has an api ( http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=San+Franci... click on the red XML button down right on the page)

As someone else mentioned, so does api.met.no (they power yr.no).

World Weather Online and Weather Central are commercial offerings, but reasonably priced.

(disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)

Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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Post by bosse »

smackay wrote: post #7
bosse wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I'm a sysadmin at met.no, and will forward your comments to the devs. I found the OP solution interesting in regards to visualizing historical observations. As of now, we have a system seperate from yr.no for that (but I believe it is still accessible from api.met.no).

Great work on the graphics - concise and informative. Coverage in western Europe for wind speed and pressure on the advanced map is limited to the North Sea, and Northeastern Atlantic. Is this due to limited access to the data or because Scandanavians think that it is always sunny and warm in Iberia so the weather is not worth reporting.

Our primary sector is the Northern Atlantic and the North Sea from Faroe Islands/Iceland and up to and including the Arctic. We do those calculations based on observations from several sources (like weather stations, weather balloons and satellite imagery) that we feed into our meteorological and oceanographic models. The stuff we create for our sector are in principle always made public, and you'll see those products on yr.no and on the API.

We also retrieve and use observations and products from partner institutions like NOAA (US) and the ECMWF (EU). Some of the partners (mostly national services) do not accept redistribution, so some areas might unfortunately only have basic meteorological and oceanographic data made available on our API.

It's amazing how popular yr.no has become. We got word from some South African farmers who said they were using yr.no instead of their national service, as our service was of better use for them. (The distance between Oslo and Johannesburg is 6010 miles.)

Re: Visualising weather reports as a graph

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Post by CodeMage »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #2

I 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.

I found yr.no visually appealing and easier on the eyes, but I found WeatherSpark more informative. WeatherSpark allows me to put other stuff on the graph, such as humidity. If there's an option to do that at yr.no, I missed. I also prefer being able to see the exact values right there on the graph, instead of having to look them up in a table. Just my personal preferences.
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