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This really sucks, I work for a stormwater environmental company and we were looking at darksky to replace our existing provider; DarkSky is one of the best pro
by sbahr001 7y ago
This really sucks, I work for a stormwater environmental company and we were looking at darksky to replace our existing provider; DarkSky is one of the best providers of weather data.IBM also bought weather underground, I am really what these big tech companies want with forecasting/weather companies.
I just wish they kept the API running though.
- Godel_unicode 7y agoHave you considered using the National Weather Service API directly? To someone with only a casual interest in this stuff it seems like it has what I would want, curious about shortcomings compared with the many commercial offerings? Especially considering it's their data that e.g. DarkSky resells. https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
- SiVal 7y agoThe Dark Sky API combines lots of data sources, and its weather data is not limited to the US. I use it for cities all around the world. The US National Weather Service API cannot replace it.
- jmckib 7y agoDo you have any idea what other data sources they use? How do they do their minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts
- SiVal 7y agoSorry, I didn't see your question until now. Unless I'm mistaken, they had a list of their sources somewhere on their website that I saw a few years ago. I don't think they said where their minute-by-minute came from, but I'm quite sure they calculated that data themselves.
- jmckib 7y agoHow does Darksky do it's minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts, though? I only see hourly forecasts in the API. I'm guessing they are doing some of their own forecasting.
- bradstewart 7y agoYour location data.