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Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map
- gdevenyi 8mo agoA PWA for mobile would be most welcome
- cr125rider 8mo agoI love PWAs these days. They’re very polished now. A few of my projects I’m going that direction. Second this.
- unstyledcontent 8mo agoXweather Live is an ad-free vector weather map built to showcase our weather APIs. It's a fun app with lots of data layers and features. Feedback welcome!
- mmaunder 8mo agoThanks. Mainly commenting to bookmark this for an aviation project I’m working on. Let me know if there’s anything that differentiates you - particularly for aviation. Thanks.
- unstyledcontent 7mo agoAwesome! Our data, like wind, is for ground level applications (we don't have data for higher altitudes). But we do have proprietary lightning data which may be of interest to you. If you go to the top left corner and change the focus from "General Focus" to "Severe" you will see a new collection of layer options related to severe weather. There you can see actual lightning strike data, as well as lightning forecast areas. Most airports use our lightning data!
- mmaunder 7mo agoThanks!
- wing-_-nuts 8mo agoVery cool site! Would you know of any similar maps that explore climate zones or micro climates?
- unstyledcontent 8mo agoThanks. There are quite a few cool projects out there. Someone just shared a link to a collection of free weather maps: https://fmhy.pages.dev/misc#climate-weather https://fmhy.pages.dev/misc#climate-weather In the future we will also be merging another project into this app which is a collection of data from personal weather stations across the country. That data is really cool because it can fill in coverage gap. https://www.pwsweather.com/map/?ob=temps https://www.pwsweather.com/map/?ob=temps
- mlfreeman 8mo ago> In the future we will also be merging another project into this app which is a collection of data from personal weather stations across the country. That data is really cool because it can fill in coverage gap. https://www.pwsweather.com/map/?ob=temps https://www.pwsweather.com/map/?ob=temps I have four stations uploading there - looking forward to see the result!
- thefourthchime 8mo agoOut of curiosity, how long did this take to write and what AI stack did you use?
- unstyledcontent 7mo agoAll of the data, including the AI endpoints (Phrase API - https://www.xweather.com/phrases-api https://www.xweather.com/phrases-api), and mapping tools were built using our weather API and MapsGL SDKs. I don't know the exact number of hours but its been worked on for about a year. You could spin up a really basic mapping site like this using the SDKs in a matter of hours.
- hahn-kev 8mo agoIt looks really cool, but all the numbers jiggle around when I pan the map on my phone (Android, Chrome)
- throawayonthe 8mo agoSimilar sites: https://www.ventusky.com https://www.ventusky.com https://www.windy.com/ https://www.windy.com/ https://fmhy.pages.dev/misc#climate-weather https://fmhy.pages.dev/misc#climate-weather
- unstyledcontent 8mo agoNever heard of freemediaheckyeah, I love it. I will have to add ours to the list. One thing that makes us different is we have a LOT more data in one app. If you explore all the layers, you can see tropical cyclone/hurricane data, lightning strikes, hail, renewable energy, and wildfire data. You have to change the focus (top left corner) to see the other collections of layers.
- rhyperior 8mo agohttps://earth.nullschool.net https://earth.nullschool.net
- cozzyd 8mo agoThis is admittedly quite niche (as I work on a balloon experiment) but I really appreciate how the nullschool map shows the 10 mbar level (5-7 would be even better if course)
- vollmarj 8mo agoAnd https://app.precip.ai https://app.precip.ai
- sysworld 8mo agohttps://zoom.earth/ https://zoom.earth/ another great one.
- jeremyperson 8mo agoIt is really cool. I don't think I've seen a weather app like it. Works great on Chrome + desktop. Great job. One small feature idea is showing the most hot and cold places at any one time. I love it!
- srid 8mo agoYea, and once you zoom out - being able to intuitively see the temperature all around the planet just creates this sense of appreciation for where we are. On top of it, one can't help but notice that we are floating nowhere in particular in this infinite and eternal universe ...
- xnx 8mo agoNeat. Overlay city labels are doubled-up over map tile city labels?
- cr125rider 8mo agoAnimating global weather patterns is super cool. It’s wild to see everything move around and ebb and flow. Neat site!
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- clamchowderz 8mo agoreally cool, but the search field doesn't update the map after I type in a new location. (safari Version 26.3 (21623.2.7.11.6))
- unstyledcontent 8mo agoThanks for catching that, and including browser details.
- hrldcpr 8mo agoCan someone explain how wind can spiral in to a point? Where does the air "go"? Or does this create a higher pressure?
- 1bpp 8mo agoBeautiful, brings back memories of Dark Sky & forecast.io
- ahaucnx 8mo ago[dead]
- andai 8mo agoCool idea, but this took about 15 seconds to load for me and then lagged very hard, especially while zooming. So I wasn't able to use it very much before getting frustrated enough to exit the page.
- sysworld 8mo agoDaamn, was smooth as butter on my M2 Macbook
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 7mo agoHmm, it was smooth on my relatively ancient Pixel 3 (running LineageOS 22.2) on Brave browser
- BobbyTables2 8mo agoSorry if this sounds harsh but this looks similar to commercial weather services in terms of the types of layers. How does this actually work? Did you manage to track down their other services’ providers and negotiate access?
- Onavo 8mo agoThey can just use the free government services. Most of the 3rd party services just wrap the various government services behind an API.
- unstyledcontent 7mo agoThis is true for many free weather APIs out there. But our weather API is global so we’re not just passing through a single government feed. There’s quite a bit of engineering to normalize all of the data sources. Japanese alerts for example are just XML feeds. All the sources update on different schedules, and have different forecast ranges, so it's a challenge to make sure the best forecast is returned at request time. Some of our data is proprietary. The lightning strike data is from our own lighting detection network. We also offer the only hail forecast model available which was developed in house :)
- unstyledcontent 7mo agoIt's a fair question. There's a lot of free sources of data out there. This app is powered by our own Weather API: https://www.xweather.com/weather-api https://www.xweather.com/weather-api The data is aggregated from global meteorological offices and other sources (some free, some paid). Some of the datasets are proprietary to us. For example, the lightning layers come from our own lightning detection network, and certain forecasts (like hail) are developed in-house. This app was built to showcase our data. The vector mapping tools are also available via API. https://www.xweather.com/mapsgl https://www.xweather.com/mapsgl
- tcumulus 8mo agoI've worked a lot with weather data in the past (and I still am), and I have to appreciate all the work that went into this. Weather model data is notoriously messy with many different formats and standards, and then I'm not even talking about radar data, etc. Probably when you've got this all abstracted away behind an API it is easier to build such a powerful application as this.
- costco 8mo agoThis is awesome and very fast especially given all the data displayed!
- noiv 8mo agoSimilar: http://zero.hypatia.earth http://zero.hypatia.earth (no vectors/but WebGPU)
- sysworld 8mo agoI love how you can scob the timeline and the weather updates as you move it, in real time. It's the biggest thing I don't like about Windy, it's so slow/laggy when changing the timeline. (Maybe it's better if you live in the US, but here in NZ, it's pain)
- chocolate-doge 7mo agoVery cool concept and worked really well