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Ouch, I loved weather underground. What's a good alternative then? I loved that I could just use the weather station down the street and always had very accura
by dvcrn 8y ago
Ouch, I loved weather underground. What's a good alternative then?
I loved that I could just use the weather station down the street and always had very accurate weather predictions. When it says it rains, it actually rains right where I am, unlike other weather services.
Also curious to see what CARROT Weather will replace it with.
- ihuman 8y agoCarrot weather already has Dark Sky as the default. You need to pay for a subscription if you want to use it on the iPhone, and a higher-tier subscription for the Watch. I'm assuming they're just remove WU and have DS as the only option.
- pilif 8y agoHere in Europe, the Dark Sky based forecasts are really bad, whereas the weather underground ones are in line with other local forecasts. Now in case of carrot, I guess having unreliable forecasts is totally in line with the other tangential functionality of the app anyways :-)
- Terretta 8y agoIn Carrot, WU adds an extra $10 or so. I paid it, as there are 15% accuracy swings between the two depending on your locality.
- TrueDuality 8y agoI've personally been using darksky.net recently for my personal weather checking. It doesn't use personal weather stations, and there isn't a free programmatic API so it definitely isn't a replacement. I've been looking for a while and I haven't found something that fills the niche that was wunderground in its hay day.
- brianpan 8y agoTheir pricing seems reasonable. Their website says 1000 calls/day for free.
- meej 8y agoThis is what the developers I know have been doing as well. Ambient Weather has been moving into the PWS data space. They have released their own smartphone apps and they have an API: https://www.ambientweather.com/api.html https://www.ambientweather.com/api.html
- medmunds 8y agoOuch indeed. I have a RainMachine irrigation controller that hooks into WU forecasts to be smart about when to water. It can use other data sources (e.g., NOAA), but in our microclimate area, WU’s access to highly-localized personal weather station data has been pretty useful. There’s some active discussion of alternatives in the RainMachine forums [1]. [1]: https://support.rainmachine.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360007658834-Weather-Underground-no-longer-offers-API-keys https://support.rainmachine.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360...