Ask HN: Fast, accurate, no BS weather website
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https://www.weather.gov/
The National Weather Service is pretty good; their web presence has been exemplary since it began.
The recent switch to fancier presentation of radar data makes that mostly inaccessible to me, (satellite internet), but they still offer low bandwidth GIFs and are usable if you're willing to dig out the URLs. ex: https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/KPAH_0.gif
The National Weather Service is pretty good; their web presence has been exemplary since it began.
The recent switch to fancier presentation of radar data makes that mostly inaccessible to me, (satellite internet), but they still offer low bandwidth GIFs and are usable if you're willing to dig out the URLs. ex: https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/KPAH_0.gif
And they have an API so I made my own weather page, docs:
https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
https://wttr.in/<Your location>
I made my own using the weather.com api. You’ll be surprised how many websites use APIs with keys in the url and those api keys work on any site forever. Look around and you’ll find an open api, then you can make whatever interface you want
I've heard that the Norwegian meteorological institute's website (and app) is popular with non-Norwegians for these reasons. https://www.yr.no/en
https://noaa.gov. It's the official weather site of the US Dept of Commerce and is entirely free of hype, ads, and BS.
I just look out my window
Your official local weather site.
Is there any weather website (must be a website, no app) that offers
- Has accurate weather information
- Minimal UI like Dark Sky - concise presentation, light, fast
- Lightweight - fast to load, no unnecessary baggage
- No BS - weather, just weather, nothing else
Honorable mentions, but they have their problems
- windy.com - not lightweight
- wttr.in - may be great for terminal, not so much for browser