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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by Godel_unicode on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:24PM (#22742772)
Have you considered using the National Weather Service API directly? To someone with only a casual interest in this stuff it seems like it has what I would want, curious about shortcomings compared with the many commercial offerings? Especially considering it's their data that e.g. DarkSky resells.

https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by SiVal on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @08:31AM (#22747923)
The Dark Sky API combines lots of data sources, and its weather data is not limited to the US. I use it for cities all around the world. The US National Weather Service API cannot replace it.
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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by jmckib on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:46PM (#22752838)
Do you have any idea what other data sources they use? How do they do their minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts
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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by SiVal on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @09:56PM (#22819115)
Sorry, I didn't see your question until now. Unless I'm mistaken, they had a list of their sources somewhere on their website that I saw a few years ago. I don't think they said where their minute-by-minute came from, but I'm quite sure they calculated that data themselves.
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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by jmckib on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:45PM (#22752834)
How does Darksky do it's minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts, though? I only see hourly forecasts in the API. I'm guessing they are doing some of their own forecasting.
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