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http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data.

EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io

EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shutdown smtmp connections which crashed my entire site.

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I would use it if it was in Celsius.

Noted! Will work on that asap.

I wanted to let you know that I've added a button for Celsius.

Excellent work! I have been traveling down the East Coast for the past month and found all the similar solutions for this problem very clunky. So happy you posted this!

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Looks like San Francisco will drop to 0 degrees on the 18th!! http://www.averageweather.io/averages/San%20Francisco/Califo...

Bundle up! Let me look into that ... Thanks

Nice website!

Some urls are weird though. You have a trailing / somewhere I guess.

http://www.averageweather.io/averages//Tokyo/11/15/

Thanks ... I've been seeing those on google analytics ...

Support for entering postal codes would be really nice. :)

Also it would be nice to per-populate the date field to today's date.

This is really cool, would it be possible you add a toggle somewhere for Celsius degrees?

Thanks! I definitely will. Hopefully today. Very common, understandable request. I only launched it a few days ago. Definitely has things I want to improve.

Also I've used Google's Places Autocomplete before for something similar to the city selection, it gives you a dropdown with possible locations.

Wanted to let you know that I have added a Celsius button.

Great project. Especially launching from 0.

Have you considered adding a Celcius option for us quirky Europeans?

For us in the rest of the world...

I know I know ... Sorry

Don't worry, it's a nice problem to have. Having users around the globe is something you should be proud of.

Congrats.

Well ... assuming traffic doesn't die post Hacker News fame ;)

Thank you. After I switch to Google Places Autocomplete, celsius is next.

looks nice - would be handy if it was in celcius too (and if it showed avg rain %)

Thanks. Agreed. Will add celsius. Rain % displays when the data is there. Otherwise I don't show it. Maybe I should show N/A or something ...

Just added Celsius.

Where do you get the data?

Darksky

They have a free API that offers that kind of stuff?

not free, but cheap: https://darksky.net/dev/

What he said. Light years cheaper than any similar offering.

this is really cool.

feature suggestions:

* range of dates

* zip code support cleanup

thanks!

Thanks! Range is something I am trying to figure best how to do. I know how, but it is "expensive" in terms of API calls etc. Like would someone pay for this feature?

Zipcode - Django has a great library so that is a next step for me.

Can you save the DarkSkye data so you never make the same request twice? Over time, you would have data for all places and all days of the year.

this is out of left field but one thing i find myself searching for is sunset/sunrise times in the future, especially when traveling to different latitudes. could be a cool addition if this info is available.

Wolfram alpha has that functionality if you type in a place and a date. Example: "Vancouver BC, december 2, 2016"

Thank you. I believe I can get that ...

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