Show HN: Coat, a simple weather forecast and clothing suggestion app

coatapp.com

3 points·sean_b··7 comments

By a weird coincidence, I just fell over this site not 30 minutes ago... http://www.doineedajacket.com/

Yup, I suspect that site is looking for local weather stations nearby and using the current conditions reported as a basis for a suggestion. That will be most accurate for current conditions.

With Coat I used projection data to give the whole day in a (hopefully) simple and concise single page.

Who is the source of your weather data?

Someone that doesn't cover london/uk :(

Yup, sadly outside the United States, cost free weather data seems very rare. In my initial search I found many meteorology agencies (even those publicly funded) required payment or licensing for using the data.

For the UK, the service is Met Office and their licensing/pricing terms were enough to make me reconsider including that data in the first version.

I can supply you with the current conditions, daily forecast, hourly forecast, and severe alerts (US only) for nearly any city in the world for $0.02 per API call. I have access to more weather stations than any single source in the world. I can return the data to you using the conversion and format of your preference. If interested, you can find my email in my profile.

I use weather data from NOAA for this

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