I have implemented a very simple Weather thing. It has very basic information atm, but more will be added later: gemini://pon.ix.tc/weather/
3 years ago · 👍 digbat, thatsredadcted, sev, martin, ttocsneb, gnuserland
Awesome I'll put the a link in my capsule!!! 😃 · 3 years ago
Added to my bookmarks in Amfora & Lagrange... Nice, that the weather source is OpenWeatherMap ;) · 3 years ago
Looks good now. 👍 correction (for my previous comment): 1.3 m/s (≡ 4.68 Km/h) notable fact: It's not raining in Seattle, and the forecast is that it will also not rain there tomorrow. :D · 3 years ago
@mc I also checked London from both The Weather Channel and OpenWeatherMap today, and they were very close to each other. Remember, there's always going to be *some* difference, but the differences are usually very small. · 3 years ago
@mc Also, about the accuracy thing... Weather Forecasting is not 100% accurate in general. It's hard for me to be accurate only because it's hard for OpenWeatherMap, WorldWeather, etc. to be 100% accurate in the first place. That's why numbers varry. They do forecasting, there's subtle differences in environments, even within a city, etc. However, the differences between the numbers are usually not significant. For example, a 5 degree (or under) difference in temperature wouldn't matter much. · 3 years ago
@mc Yeah, I think what I'm going to do is continue to show OpenWeatherMap, and then have a link to wttr.in info as well. The other services, forecast.io/DeepSky and WorldWeather, are paid unfortunately, so I won't be able to provide information from them directly. However, whatever wttr.in uses I can get fairly easily (wttr.in provides an api endpoint via http fortunately). · 3 years ago
Yes, it's quite difficult to be accurate given the, sometimes, rather different numeric values of different sources. OpenWeatherMap eems to be okay for the States. WorldWeather values for the wind seldom match local forecasts. Glad I could be of some help. 🤭 · 3 years ago
@mc So, wttr.in seems to use worldweatheronline.com According to what I'm seeing, worldweather.com's wind speeds don't match at all what I see in openweathermap or The Weather Channel (which is extremely commonly used here in the US). I guess what I could do is just show the weather from multiple sources. · 3 years ago
@mc I checked it against another weather service that is common where I live, and it seems fairly accurate for today. Perhaps I got some of the things in the metric version wrongly labelled, I'm not sure. · 3 years ago
@mc It's powered by openweathermap.org, which seems to be sponsored/used by lots of other companies (including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Airbnb, Facebook, Barnes and Noble, etc.). Anyways, checking accuracy is not exactly easy, because you can't know if the thing you are checking it against is also accurate. You can see what they've written about accuracy here: https://openweathermap.org/accuracy-and-quality · 3 years ago
https://openweathermap.org/accuracy-and-quality
the extra 'o' in 'foor' should be in 'Londn'. ;) · 3 years ago
Seems very inacurate for now. Foor example, I checked the weather in Londn today on wttr.in (command line) and the short forecast says: Sunny, 17[degrees] C, [wind] <- 15 km/h, [rain] 0.0 mm. Your forecast service says 22.8[degrees] C, [wind] 1.3 m/s (≡ 46.8 Km/h), humidity 57% . Completely different. · 3 years ago