Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API

Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by vermilingua on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:55PM (#34332675)

Only in the US would you assume your govt's format is 'default'.

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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by tjohns on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:11PM (#34332808)

I think the implication was more that any government meteorological office's format is the default over a small private company.

Especially since this API is repackaging output from the NWS's GFS model output.

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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by earthscienceman on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @07:24PM (#34333424)

Yeah. And the follow up snark comment about it being an American thing. It is literally the file format specified for this type of data, globally. As outlined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) decades ago. It's widely supported and parseable. Making a web API that parses GRIB data is trivial. It's not some esoteric thing. You can open the files in python on any modern computer+OS.

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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by seb1204 on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @12:14AM (#34335246)

So what is different or better in the Dark Sky syntax?

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