I understand that weather on TV can’t be hyperlocally accurate. But a weather app on my phone has my exact GPS coordinates. Why can’t it tell me exactly when a rain cloud will be passing over my location?
It’s gotten to the point where I just use precipitation maps to figure out my rain chances for the day.
The hourly forecast is mostly useless because it’s not a chance % but a % of the area that will be raining.
Apple bought darksky, and Apple Weather now has that feature that notifies you before it rains.
That sucks. It is so frustrating when large companies shut down widely used public APIs.
Oh, yeah. Not only did they take it away from all Android users, they also killed the API that let other apps access it. I wrote an open-source tool that made Dark Sky data available to Wear OS watch faces. It worked beautifully for several years, until Apple killed it.
The worst of it is that was my second attempt. An earlier version of the same tool worked with Weather Underground data. Then IBM bought it, changed the API completely, and priced it so that only business could afford it.
I haven’t had the heart to try a third time.
Sorry, every once in a while I’m overcome with the need to whine about it.
LOL. Thanks for your service. I think you should let yourself off with time served ;-)
Does most weather data in the US ultimately come from weather.gov? No idea about API but maybe it can be scraped from the web.
Just putting it out there, but the National Weather Service has a free API here.
