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> Their website only publishes a subset of their API data so that missing data is provided to 3rd parked and curious users but not the public. The majority of
by 2trill2spill 6y ago
> Their website only publishes a subset of their API data so that missing data is provided to 3rd parked and curious users but not the public.
The majority of the data available to download is superfluous to most people hence why only a subset is shown on any weather app or website including forecast.weather.gov or Accuweather or whatever.
> It’s reasonable to separate providing data to providing data to the public
The NWS actually does provide visualizations for most of their data, and at this point I feel you don't know much about weather data/forecasting and are just looking to argue online. I provided a bunch of links below that allow curious people to look through American model data without having to use a company or having to program their own software. This list doesn't even include free to use apps/sites made by companies. American weather data is easy to access and view for free, Where as European model data is harder to access because you have to pay for it.
[1]: https://www.ready.noaa.gov/READY_animations.php https://www.ready.noaa.gov/READY_animations.php
[2]: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
[3]: http://weather.utah.edu/ http://weather.utah.edu/
[4]: https://prism.oregonstate.edu/ https://prism.oregonstate.edu/
[5]: https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/ https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/
[6]: https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/ https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/
- Retric 6y agoIt’s actually the reverse. I was annoyed I couldn’t validate that I was correctly interpreting some of their API data on their website. My original interest was displaying each days forecast vs what it had been the day before, but it turned out less interesting than I had expected. However, it’s easy to get sucked into this stuff.