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https://github.com/Mrjohns42/WeatherDash/blob/master/README....
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Lots of reasons why you might want more local though. My local airport is more than 10km away (but there are other monitoring stations). Pilots and controllers assume some uncertainty because even within the airport perimeter there will be temperature and wind variation, but they will be in-calibration which is the main advantage. Controllers often rely on pilots to make reports if conditions differ to what the airpo…
Yes, I should have qualified that the airport API thing is much more practical in the US, I suppose, since we spend more on aviation than other countries. Our government since WW2 has subsidized any city which wants an airport so they can have one. I just took a look at the Dallas, Texas airspace as an example and there are 14 weather stations within the ring defining the metro area's restricted airspace. It looks li…
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Accuweather? Lol please give me that 45 day daily forecast! All apps use the same fucking forecasts that our government puts out. The problem i think is with people's expectations. They dont understand weather and think it's easy to predict like some other things. They dont understand that it is a dynamic, chaotic, non linear system where repeating the same process 1000x will always yield slightly diff results
We track the snow forecasts closely and my experience is that any forecast more than a week ahead is no better than a coin flip and will usually be changed. We joke about Inaccuweather.
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Weather Underground is one: https://www.wunderground.com/pws/overview
Weatherunderground hater here. There are a large number of stations (Ambient Weather is a big seller in the US) that hook up neatly and conveniently to only supply data to wunderground. But then you are 100% reliant upon them for their graphs and app displays, which are slow and often broken, and give you little choice in formatting. For example, the app doesn't display a wind history at all, but the web does. But it…
This doesn't actually predict weather, though, correct? It just sits on your roof and tells you whether it's raining? So... the same could be achieved by sticking your hand out of the window?
This is for data collection. Your hand wouldn't be very good for telling you how many centimeters of rain fell.
Nice. I love weather station builds. Here is mine. I added a pm air quality sensor, a infrared rain sensor, some light sensors, a CO2 sensor, an accelerometer, and a loudness sensor. There's a spot for my Geiger counter too but that installation is not done yet. https://partofthething.com/thoughts/weather-and-air-quality-...
I get that people like to play with hardware but for practical purposes, there are public APIs with airport weather station data that anyone can use, published at 5 minute intervals (typically). Considering the data they output must conform to aircraft avionics parsers that are sometimes decades old, they are unlikely to ever change or go away. Since the weather observations are required for IFR flight, the FAA is qu…
If you are gardening in LA, and you knew the hyper local wind conditions in your plot, the light level, and the ambient moisture, you could develop an automatic watering solution for your garden that is truly hands free in all operation and can be customized based on individual plants needs. Many existing auto watering systems use soil sensors that are known to corrode and need replacement, so if you can infer soil moisture content from other non corrosive means that would be much preferred. You'd probably want to use the soil sensors at least initially to get an understanding of the function between your weather data and the particular soil composition of a given plant, but then they wouldn't have to be continually replaced.
After the recent very hot and dry winds from the desert (normally wind comes west) killed off some of my more temperamental plants last week, I'm thinking about some sort of automatic solution like this.
I like that Kirill Dubovikov built a weather station and showed others how. The more people who do this, the better, not just for education and skills, but in terms of gathering weather information that can help forecasters. He wrote, "the Weather app on my iPhone is not very good at making accurate forecasts," and I thought, "he must have been using the wrong app." I hope in addition to building weather stations and…
I had been very disappointed with the local weather forecast last summer, and then there was an interview with one of the meteorologists involved and they said they were quite proud of how accurate their predictions had been so far. I was taken aback, as in my mind their "success rate" had been well below 50%. Then I got my answer: they focused on the temperature forecast, while since I bike to work what I was intere…
I'm using weewx for my weather station. I pulled the weather station out of a bin at my former place of employment, which is an airmar 200wx, ultrasonic wind sensor that's typically used on boats. The humidity sensor doesn't work, so I wrote a python script, that acts as man in the middle, that reads in the data, and when it gets to the humidity values, it replaces them with numbers from a DHT22 humidity sensor inste…
https://github.com/FlorinAndrei/WeatherStation
The Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense has all the sensors I need. A bit of Python on a Pi Zero performs data collection and a bit of pre-processing.