I have to scroll all they way down to the buttom to find the information source -- WorldWeatherOnline. Does people not care about where their whether data is sourced from?
Living in Japan, I have always been wary of these type of service, since I find a lot of them really inaccurate. And I just checked, Tokyo show 15C on that website, while high resolution current weather information from Japan Metrological Agency show 18C.
I'll admit I'm just speculating because I don't know much about weather and weather data collection, but is it not possible there's a 3 degree difference between 2 different places of measurement in Tokyo (i.e. both are correct to some degree?)
> while high resolution current weather information from Japan Metrological Agency
They are complaining about location precision. It might be very coarse (equivalent to US zip code size). It’s a valid complaint. I use Dark Sky on iOS because it’s accurate to 10 meters or so.
I agree. I always avoid these aggregators that offer world-wide coverage. The quality of the data is often questionable.
As a cyclist I'm mostly interested in rain. So I check the rain radar of the national weather service, which has excellent resolution.
Even when travelling I spend 5 minutes to dig out the relevant local pages of a national weather service and bookmark them. Not something I have to do so frequently that any kind of automation would be needed.
Weather apps and this client are a solutions in search of a real problem. Yes, it's a nice demo, I like working with the terminal. But I am not working with weather all day long.
This is why I like Windy.com. They give you the output directly from the various weather models and you can actually see them all in parallel or just pick whichever one works best for your location.
Living in the PNW where predicting snowfall can be problematic to say the least, I love looking at the various windy.com models. One particular storm, that lead to about an inch of sticking snow this past winter had ranges from 2-20 inches predicted by the various models. The worst part is the 2 inch prediction came from the model that is generally considered the least reliable for our area.
Living in Japan, I have always been wary of these type of service, since I find a lot of them really inaccurate. And I just checked, Tokyo show 15C on that website, while high resolution current weather information from Japan Metrological Agency show 18C.