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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
by 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 agoYep, 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 agoI 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 agoTornadoGuard: https://m.xkcd.com/937/ https://m.xkcd.com/937/