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> , find a nearby airport, get their ATIS (or AWOS or ASOS) phone number and you can call and get a real-time report. Obviously it's current weather, not forecast, but it's often helpful.

The US Government makes both METARs (current report) and TAFs (area forecast) available online. You can also get PIREPs (pilot reports) if you are interested in the conditions in the air.

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Along with free APIs! (XML, though.)

https://www.aviationweather.gov/dataserver

that’s neat! thanks for mentioning it.

I use an Android weather widget called Meteogram Pro. It supports pulling in and displaying METAR data, among a thousand other options.

You can make plots of things like thunderstorm probability, thickness and altitude of different cloud layers, azimuth and elevation for all planets in the solar system, pollen index, tide height, you name it.

Can you let me know which developer it is? There are a few with the almost exact same names. Thanks!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloud3squa...

There's also a non pro version, but I'm not clear on the differences because I still have a decade or more worth of the old system credits bought to support what's always been a great app/widget.

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