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Yep. NOAA is the source of all the weather data that all of your weather apps and TV stations use.

acomjean 2y ago
I remember seeing "weather.gov" on one of the monitors of a local tv news station. (they had kind of an open newsroom). Weather.gov is a antidote from the add sponsored mess that weather websites are. Of course I suspect most people use phone apps now. But they have a lot of information on those pages, including weather discussions. I follow this because my startup had to normalize for weather so we needed weather information. We went to "weatherunderground" (a play on a 60s era group perhaps?) and paid some money to get that weather data. They got bought by weathercompany/IBM. I had a developer account and could pull hourly weather information (I had grand plans to compare predictions vs actual) that got axed weather.gov was always there. They don't have an api, but I love their weather graph which lets you look at a bunch of weather over the next couple days (and includes sunset and sunrise). Its very fast to read after a few days. eg https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3774&lon=-71.1225&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3774&lon=-7... Forecast discussion: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=box&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1&highlight=off https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=b...
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y ago
  weather.gov is so good! Between weather.gov and noaa.gov there is an absolutely incredible amount of information available. I'm a big fan the GOES viewer: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus.php?sat=G16 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus.php?sat=G16
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
  I love weather.gov and use it daily- even on my phone.
- TYPE_FASTER 2y ago
  It looks like there is an API for weather.gov now: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api I really appreciate how the NWS products make it easy to create custom widgets that you can embed in a webpage.

I remember seeing "weather.gov" on one of the monitors of a local tv news station. (they had kind of an open newsroom). Weather.gov is a antidote from the add sponsored mess that weather websites are. Of course I suspect most people use phone apps now. But they have a lot of information on those pages, including weather discussions. I follow this because my startup had to normalize for weather so we needed weather information. We went to "weatherunderground" (a play on a 60s era group perhaps?) and paid some money to get that weather data. They got bought by weathercompany/IBM. I had a developer account and could pull hourly weather information (I had grand plans to compare predictions vs actual) that got axed weather.gov was always there. They don't have an api, but I love their weather graph which lets you look at a bunch of weather over the next couple days (and includes sunset and sunrise). Its very fast to read after a few days. eg https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3774&lon=-71.1225&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3774&lon=-7... Forecast discussion: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=box&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1&highlight=off https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=b...

sjsdaiuasgdia 2y ago
weather.gov is so good! Between weather.gov and noaa.gov there is an absolutely incredible amount of information available. I'm a big fan the GOES viewer: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus.php?sat=G16 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus.php?sat=G16
2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
I love weather.gov and use it daily- even on my phone.
TYPE_FASTER 2y ago
It looks like there is an API for weather.gov now: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api I really appreciate how the NWS products make it easy to create custom widgets that you can embed in a webpage.