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Show HN: Weather Search – find places by weather
- dtertman 11y agoOP here. I've always wondered what it would be like to take the typical weather-site experience (pick a place, see the weather) and flip it on its head - pick the weather, find the place. So, I grabbed a year worth of data at 4000 airport sites from Weather Underground, loaded it all into MySQL, and wrote a query to aggregate it. There are a couple of problems: 1. A lot of weather data is of questionable quality. You see things like a daily high of 700 degrees. I took a little time to cleanse some obvious problems, but there is probably more. 2. I never put in a loading spinner when you click the button :) So, click and wait, please. 3. Google's Geochart doesn't have a good region for North America. Other continents (if you select only them) will zoom in, but North America specifically won't. 4. I didn't invest a lot of time into preventing bad user behavior. If you send in an impossible search, you'll probably get no results, or maybe even a server 500. I hope you have fun playing with it!