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ive never cared much for the weather channel. After the whole snafu about their own pet names for winter storms I think they lost a good deal of credibility as

ive never cared much for the weather channel. After the whole snafu about their own pet names for winter storms I think they lost a good deal of credibility as anything more than a paid wrapper for noaa.gov. wttr.in is a good service you can get on nearly any device.

nlawalker 8y ago
Speaking of .gov's, weather.gov is great from a browser - snappy, fully featured, no ads and friendly enough on mobile.
- bhhaskin 8y ago
  Weather.gov is pretty sweet. They also have a pretty good API as well.
  - dullroar 8y ago
    Exactly this. I have tons of weather bookmarks, all of them are from the gov't. No dancing ads. And their API is straightforward, as mentioned.
a3n 8y ago
when you ask for, e.g, "/springfield", how do you know which Springfield you get? And how to you specify a particular Springfield out of the many? Edit: By using '~' to use the search/lookup feature, and adding the state to be specific. The '~' will cause a line below the weather to appear, telling you where it found. $ curl wttr.in/~denver+iowa [weather stuff] Location: Denver, Bremer County, Iowa, 50622, United States of America [42.6713719,-92.3374045]
- deleted 8y ago
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a3n 8y ago
I'm a long distance trucker (my 6th career), and I'd like an app or site that will give me weather over two or three days along a 1000 to 2000 mile path. Anyone? IIRC, I found something somewhere under weather.gov, but it was difficult/tedious to use on a smallish android phone; the associated API seemed more promising, but for the moment I'm either driving, decompressing or sleeping.
- toomuchtodo 8y ago
  https://www.weatheronwheelshome.com/ https://www.weatheronwheelshome.com/
  - a3n 8y ago
    Thanks. Google play doesn't seem to be able to find it, not by a search, and not by the link from their web page. I tried getting weather from their web page for a trip I'm starting soon, but I just got a "this is embarrassing" response. But, google play suggested other apps, so I'll try them. I appreciate your pointer.
    - zrobotics 8y ago
      My dad is a farmer, and uses DTN for weather information. It's a paid service, not 100% sure of the price, but it provides excellent weather information. I see they offer a product tailored for transportation: https://www.dtn.com/industries/weather/transportation/ https://www.dtn.com/industries/weather/transportation/ Their mobile site isn't the greatest, but it is usable. I've used it for trip forecasts before, it works well. Edit:one great thing is no ads, weather.com is unusable w/o an ad blocker, but this being a monthly payment=no ads to deal with.
    - reaperducer 8y ago
      Second recommendation for DTN. I know people who run small town radio stations who use it because they can't afford the other big commercial services. They all say it's great.
- beauzero 8y ago
reaperducer 8y ago
>wttr.in is a good service you can get on nearly any device. wttr.in isn't going to show me live video of my friends being rescued from a storm 2,000 miles away, like The Weather Channel did. I use it daily, but it only regurgitates NWS data, and data that's pretty vague for a vast area at that. There's a location about 20 miles from where I am now that is routinely 40 degrees cooler than where I am now because of altitude change. My home location is always 5-15 degrees cooler than my work location. The Weather Channel shows that. wttr.in doesn't.
- pavel_lishin 8y ago
  May I ask where you live? (If I had more free time, this would be a fun GIS challenge.)
Steltek 8y ago
> whole snafu about their own pet names for winter storms Funny because my next thought was "Heartbleed, Spectre, Shellshock, ...". It seems people will discuss threats more when there are catchy names attached to them. Otherwise "mitigated CVE-XYZ" or "that storm was wicked, eh?" is just another boring day at the office.
52-6F-62 8y ago
The Weather Network (Pelmorex) also serves the US https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ https://www.pelmorex.com/en/ https://www.pelmorex.com/en/

nlawalker 8y ago

Speaking of .gov's, weather.gov is great from a browser - snappy, fully featured, no ads and friendly enough on mobile.

bhhaskin 8y ago
Weather.gov is pretty sweet. They also have a pretty good API as well.
- dullroar 8y ago
  Exactly this. I have tons of weather bookmarks, all of them are from the gov't. No dancing ads. And their API is straightforward, as mentioned.

a3n 8y ago

when you ask for, e.g, "/springfield", how do you know which Springfield you get? And how to you specify a particular Springfield out of the many? Edit: By using '~' to use the search/lookup feature, and adding the state to be specific. The '~' will cause a line below the weather to appear, telling you where it found. $ curl wttr.in/~denver+iowa [weather stuff] Location: Denver, Bremer County, Iowa, 50622, United States of America [42.6713719,-92.3374045]

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a3n 8y ago

I'm a long distance trucker (my 6th career), and I'd like an app or site that will give me weather over two or three days along a 1000 to 2000 mile path. Anyone? IIRC, I found something somewhere under weather.gov, but it was difficult/tedious to use on a smallish android phone; the associated API seemed more promising, but for the moment I'm either driving, decompressing or sleeping.

toomuchtodo 8y ago
https://www.weatheronwheelshome.com/ https://www.weatheronwheelshome.com/
- a3n 8y ago
  Thanks. Google play doesn't seem to be able to find it, not by a search, and not by the link from their web page. I tried getting weather from their web page for a trip I'm starting soon, but I just got a "this is embarrassing" response. But, google play suggested other apps, so I'll try them. I appreciate your pointer.
  - zrobotics 8y ago
    My dad is a farmer, and uses DTN for weather information. It's a paid service, not 100% sure of the price, but it provides excellent weather information. I see they offer a product tailored for transportation: https://www.dtn.com/industries/weather/transportation/ https://www.dtn.com/industries/weather/transportation/ Their mobile site isn't the greatest, but it is usable. I've used it for trip forecasts before, it works well. Edit:one great thing is no ads, weather.com is unusable w/o an ad blocker, but this being a monthly payment=no ads to deal with.
  - reaperducer 8y ago
    Second recommendation for DTN. I know people who run small town radio stations who use it because they can't afford the other big commercial services. They all say it's great.
beauzero 8y ago

reaperducer 8y ago

>wttr.in is a good service you can get on nearly any device. wttr.in isn't going to show me live video of my friends being rescued from a storm 2,000 miles away, like The Weather Channel did. I use it daily, but it only regurgitates NWS data, and data that's pretty vague for a vast area at that. There's a location about 20 miles from where I am now that is routinely 40 degrees cooler than where I am now because of altitude change. My home location is always 5-15 degrees cooler than my work location. The Weather Channel shows that. wttr.in doesn't.

pavel_lishin 8y ago
May I ask where you live? (If I had more free time, this would be a fun GIS challenge.)

Steltek 8y ago

> whole snafu about their own pet names for winter storms Funny because my next thought was "Heartbleed, Spectre, Shellshock, ...". It seems people will discuss threats more when there are catchy names attached to them. Otherwise "mitigated CVE-XYZ" or "that storm was wicked, eh?" is just another boring day at the office.

52-6F-62 8y ago

The Weather Network (Pelmorex) also serves the US https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ https://www.pelmorex.com/en/ https://www.pelmorex.com/en/