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I’ve been using weather.gov as a no-BS site for getting local weather data that I knew would be stable (cough, DarkSky, cough). I’m a bit concerned that the ReadMe seems to only describe covering emergency events+broadcasting in 2.0. I could’ve missed it, but I hope porting over existing functionality is in scope after the MVP

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I am a fan of the 2 day graphical forecast from NOAA, everything including dew point, cloud coverage, and wind speeds/direction on one screen and easy to understand the trend...

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=33.4503&lon=-1...

This new API coupled with their old API makes creating a DarkSky clone pretty simple. Here's mine: https://wthr.cloud/

I'll definitely end up using the broadcasting/eventing API for push notifications.

Very nice. Beats mine: https://emvee.rocks/weather.html

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Stupid order of operations bug. A refresh should do it. Thanks for the nudge to fix this up.

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After Dark sky went I've been using https://merrysky.net/ and the pirateweather data it's based on seems pretty good.

Same, MerrySky been a very handy lens to view the data through. And, Pirate Weather has been a good, open source, drop in replacement for the parts of DarkSky I was using in Home Assistant.

> Our strategy for our Minimal Viable Product (MVP) is to make it easier to communicate forecasts and conditions for regular and hazardous weather in a way that anyone can find, understand, and use to take action.

I think they've got you covered. Maybe not directly porting over, but it sounds like they're aware of the non-emergency use cases.

Once you learn some of the weather terminology, your local NWS office’s AFD (area forecast discussion) is easily the most accurate, honest forecast you can find.

Unless you live in the Pacific Northwest, where they routinely screw up winter storms. Thankfully we have a couple of very competent meteorologists to keep us informed when it's needed most, otherwise the winter disaster scenarios would be much worse than it already is.

Are you talking about the local NWS offices in the PNW?

I always tell tech savvy people to look at the forecast discussion and not the infographics. For example, look at Spokane:

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=47.65726000000...

Then select 'Forecast Discussion' and read the discussions. They are usually updated a few times a day at the minimum, but during active weather events they are generally updated every 3 to 4 hours with new information (more data from the 850mb layer, for example).

I'm a fan, miss DarkSky though but weather.gov is far and above better than any commercialized weather site IMO.

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