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Re:ClimaCell Weather API: fully customizable hyper-local API by hagsh on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:07PM (#23383108)
The original premise of ClimaCell as I understood when hearing about a few years ago was to utilize cellular cells (hence ClimaCell) to acquire information about the levels of humidity in the air, thus providing a cellular cell level immediate forecast. I believe they have expanded that to satellite communications and more.
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Re:ClimaCell Weather API: fully customizable hyper-local API by cryptoz on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:11PM (#23383166)
There is an enormous amount of latent weather data to be extracted from existing sources and they, I think, are doing a great job finding and using them.

I am also working on similar efforts, focused on using labelled photos of the sky with ML to extract weather data from outdoor photos, and using barometers in phones: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe...

I'm shocked there aren't more efforts in this space. I know IBM is using barometers in phones now, and I suppose Apple may try that post-Dark Sky acquisition, but I'm still surprised there aren't more!

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Re:ClimaCell Weather API: fully customizable hyper-local API by wlesieutre on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:45PM (#23384318)
PressureNET (now defunct) was the earliest crowdsourcing phone barometer platform that I remember hearing about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PressureNET
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Re:ClimaCell Weather API: fully customizable hyper-local API by cryptoz on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:52PM (#23384395)
Yeah, that one was me :) All Clear is my latest attempt. It's a hard nut to crack.
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Re:ClimaCell Weather API: fully customizable hyper-local API by jschwartzi on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:02PM (#23384507)
I would be totally okay with this if it means we can predict when thunderstorms will start in our mountain passes.
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Re:ClimaCell Weather API: fully customizable hyper-local API by lowwave on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:19PM (#23384685)
Nice! Did they modify the cell towers with humidity sensors? Please share any links if you can. This would make their data to be more high resolution.
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