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I'm in the early planning stages of doing something somewhat similar for motorcycle riders (which I am one), you feed it your commute route, typical times and i

I'm in the early planning stages of doing something somewhat similar for motorcycle riders (which I am one), you feed it your commute route, typical times and it then sends you a summary of the next days commute (or ride) including interpreting the forecast in the context of a motorcycle (i.e. gust delta against base wind speed, temps below 0 in the preceeding 12hrs, estimated windchill at 40mph, 50mph, 60mph and suggested clothing - plus the ability to set alerts for particulary directions of wind etc). I've zero interest in commercialising it, I'm building it to play with some technologies I want to learn and because it beats anything I've got currently which is mostly just remembering to check the temperature/wind direction for the next day.

BooneJS 7y ago
My wife and I took a road trip to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA for our honeymoon in 2002. We were passing through a storm along I90 in South Dakota when we later realized we drove between 2 tornados. Since then I've wished that Google Maps would add a road trip weather option given that it predicts roughly where you'll be and when for possibly the next 10 hours in a drive.
- noir_lord 7y ago
  Yep, I've looked for the country I'm in (UK) and no one seems to be doing it, which is weird since in the UK our weather data from our national meteorological provides it's main forecast data under an open license (5000 points, to 3hr accuracy for 5 days) https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/data/datapoint/datapoint-products https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/data/datapoint/datapoi... Between that data and open street maps I have most of the raw data I need, the rest is a halfway usable interface, aggregating and interpolating the data and figuring out a nice way to present the results to be easily grokkable.
- thmorton 7y ago
  I built something like this awhile ago (http://weather.basementserver.org/ http://weather.basementserver.org/) as an afternoon hobby project. I'm shocked that Google hasn't added this feature yet!
- edoceo 7y ago
  TornadoGuard: https://m.xkcd.com/937/ https://m.xkcd.com/937/
modoc 7y ago
That sounds awesome! I am also a motorcycle rider. FWIW Darksky API and data is great!

BooneJS 7y ago

My wife and I took a road trip to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA for our honeymoon in 2002. We were passing through a storm along I90 in South Dakota when we later realized we drove between 2 tornados. Since then I've wished that Google Maps would add a road trip weather option given that it predicts roughly where you'll be and when for possibly the next 10 hours in a drive.

noir_lord 7y ago
Yep, I've looked for the country I'm in (UK) and no one seems to be doing it, which is weird since in the UK our weather data from our national meteorological provides it's main forecast data under an open license (5000 points, to 3hr accuracy for 5 days) https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/data/datapoint/datapoint-products https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/data/datapoint/datapoi... Between that data and open street maps I have most of the raw data I need, the rest is a halfway usable interface, aggregating and interpolating the data and figuring out a nice way to present the results to be easily grokkable.
thmorton 7y ago
I built something like this awhile ago (http://weather.basementserver.org/ http://weather.basementserver.org/) as an afternoon hobby project. I'm shocked that Google hasn't added this feature yet!
edoceo 7y ago
TornadoGuard: https://m.xkcd.com/937/ https://m.xkcd.com/937/

modoc 7y ago

That sounds awesome! I am also a motorcycle rider. FWIW Darksky API and data is great!