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Do you plan to scrape the data and maintain a historical database so old screenshots can be used too? Would be really cool but I imagine it could be difficult

• Elliott-Diy 1y ago
  That’s actually an end goal! I’m thinking of setting up a system to crowdsource this: if people opt in, the tool could cache the weather data it pulls and share it to help build a distributed historical dataset.
  • tgv 1y ago
    There are meteorological services with open data access: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web/ https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web/, https://english.knmidata.nl/open-dat https://english.knmidata.nl/open-dat, https://climatedataportal.metoffice.gov.uk/ https://climatedataportal.metoffice.gov.uk/ Mapping that would be quite a bit of work, I imagine.
    • Elliott-Diy 1y ago
      Yeah, mapping it would definitely be a project. I looked into using open data from those sources, but ran into issues where the values didn’t match what MSN reports (which is what the Windows weather widget uses). Even small differences in temperature or how conditions are worded ("partly sunny" vs. "mostly sunny") can throw off the match. I’m planning to try using open data for historical screenshots eventually, but I expect it’ll reduce accuracy greatly.
• rconti 1y ago
  Using a time series database would be great here.