Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by ed312 on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:03PM
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off topic of the thread: do you have a strong opinion of Dark Sky vs Weather Underground?
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Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by jermaustin1 on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:14PM
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I have found Dark Sky is great in populated areas (NYC, Denver, Houston), but Wunderground seems to do better outside of the metros (Lower Hudson River Valley, Catskills, Adirondacks -- you can probably tell where I live and work, now).
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by drewmol on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:42PM
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I've found the best data comes from the nearest/best doppler radar(s). Often this is one of the local tv broadcast stations. Obviously this radar data is licensed to various weather service providers but are usually owned by a broadcast television network operator.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by SomeHacker44 on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:32PM
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Dark Sky : T-Mobile :: Wunderground : Verizon
Got it.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by bearcobra on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:58PM
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I really like Weather Undergrounds local stations. Being able to see that a location at the top of a hill in town is a couple degrees cooler or windier than one down the street has proven to be really useful when decided to bring a jacket or not. That said Dark Sky's UI is top notch and the data seems to be pretty solid as well.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by danmaz74 on Saturday January 05, 2019 @03:37AM
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I love those... Except when those stations start working badly and it's impossible to disable them (a month going where I live in London)
Where I live (Oslo, Norway), the predictions of Dark Sky and Weather Underground are both less accurate than just making an uneducated guess based on how the weather has been developing the last couple of days. I guess they work better in North America
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by JohnFen on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:46PM
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In my part of North America, you can do better than any weather forecasts that I've ever seen by simply predicting that tomorrow's weather will be pretty much the same as today's. And all forecasts beyond three days are essentially worthless.