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They mentioned that weather.com crashed their website. Their website is always extremely slow for me as well. It's ridiculous how poorly designed their website
by niij 10y ago
They mentioned that weather.com crashed their website. Their website is always extremely slow for me as well. It's ridiculous how poorly designed their website can be for such a simple service.
- oxide 10y agoI use weather.gov instead for precisely this reason.
- wfunction 10y agoIt doesn't even have sunrise/sunset? Or am I just missing it? (I use Weather Underground.)
- sillysaurus3 10y agoYou can run `curl wttr.in` to get your local weather and 3-day forecast. Or just go to http://wttr.in/ http://wttr.in/
- Cyph0n 10y agoCan we get the temperature in degC?
- mmozeiko 10y agohttp://wttr.in/?m http://wttr.in/?m For other options see http://wttr.in/:help http://wttr.in/:help
- ausjke 10y agotried that, how handy!
- kfrzcode 10y agoI love this webservice. Nothing else to add, just my love.
- BatFastard 10y agoAwesome! Kudos. Now if they could sneak in an animated weather map...
- fsasieta 10y agoyou have changed my life
- kbenson 10y agoHmm. "Weather for City: Santa Rosa, Philippines" That's the wrong Santa Rosa, in the wrong country. There's an interesting bug in there somewhere.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- scottmf 10y ago> Get city by IP address > Search weather for city
- ChoGGi 10y agoIt accepts airport codes, so you can use the one for Sonoma County Airport (assuming it's close by enough). http://wttr.in/sts http://wttr.in/sts
- SiVal 10y agoTO THE DEVELOPER, FWIW: I'm also in California and it thinks I'm in the Philippines in a town with the same name as one a few miles from here. I assume you use IP to find town, country; throw away country; look up town in a list with country names in alphabetical order (Philippines < United States) Note that even if you get the country right it won't be enough, because there is a "Springfield" in each of the 50 states. You'll have to get keep all of the location info you get from the IP lookup, not throw part of it away and attempt to recover it.
- sillysaurus3 10y agoAs a workaround, you can use your zip code instead. E.g. http://wttr.in/90401 http://wttr.in/90401
- kuschku 10y agoDoesn’t work with German ZIP codes: http://wttr.in/24107 http://wttr.in/24107 or ISO ZIP codes: http://wttr.in/D-24107 http://wttr.in/D-24107
- niij 10y agoThanks for the helpful link!
- vikrantvm 10y agoThis is great. Hope the dev fixes location detection! Weather from the terminal, woot
- majewsky 10y agoLocation detection is notoriously hard. For example, my auto-detected location is 500 km off because of the corporate HTTP proxy.
- Fiahil 10y agoAs mentioned above, you can explicitly specify cities and locations in multiple ways. Chances are, it uses the GMap api (or similar), so you can input pretty much anything resembling a location description. Not sure there is something to fix :)
- robertcorey 10y agoneat, thanks for the tip.
- ausjke 10y agoweather.com uses drupal7 + apache2 + ubuntu + angularjs, not sure why it is that slow, I use weather.com once a while just fine though.
- true_religion 10y agoIt is only because of AngularJS + Ads. This is a slow down caused by browser rendering/parsing/JS execution. I'm not sure what the server operating system would have to do with it.
- mschuster91 10y agoDrupal can be a real PITA to properly set up with caching. If you're running anything above 10 req/s your server is going to melt without. Oh, and it's always worth a try to swap the default search for Elasticsearch, Solr or any other external engine. That AngularJS is a slow piece of ... is another part. I coded up a simple Twitter client using Cordova with Angular, scrapped and rebuilt it in jQuery with Cordova (was a test if one can actually build a backendless Twitter app). Such speed, many awesome. I guess many of the "hipster" JS devs use the latest, max-spec macbook/iphone only and totally ignore the rest of ordinary PCs/average Android phone, or they wouldn't dare to touch Angular and friends even with a pole. Source: operating a couple Drupal instances.
- ausjke 10y agoDrupal 8 pretty much killed my love for drupal, I'm now switching to wordpress, though I miss drupal's book module in particular.
- radicalbyte 10y ago1. Install uMatrix. 2. Allow *.mapbox.com on weather.com 3. Enjoy a fast and useful site. Same trick works for many sites, particularly old media (TV, newspapers, content spam etc).
- codegeek 10y agoAlso, there is https://weather.gov https://weather.gov
- Cyph0n 10y agoIt does not seem to support TLS, so: http://weather.gov http://weather.gov
- codehusker 10y agoHeh, the cert includes their Zabbix instance, but not the bare domain. https://www.weather.gov https://www.weather.gov but mixed content
- Cyph0n 10y agoMy bad then, nice catch!
- abrowne 10y agoEven better, weather.gov/ZIP e.g. http://weather.gov/55455 http://weather.gov/55455
- hackuser 10y agoTry Weather Underground: Their graph is the most impressive, useful visualization of weather data around, IME. For example: https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=94102 https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast... Note you can click the controls at the top right of the graph and add/remove elements. The graph is a bit heavy, but that may be necessary to generate the visualization.
- BatFastard 10y agoWhat I didn't realize was that weather underground is now owned by the weather channel :(
- bearcobra 10y agoTechnically it's owned by The Weather Company which in turn is owned by IBM. The TV channel is now a separate entity. I still find their forecasts to be more reliable and the user weather station data is great
- dattaway 10y agoWeather Underground also has a lightweight telnet service. Telnet to rainmaker.wunderground.com and enjoy the super fast ascii text interface.