Comment by guillohm

3 years ago

Beyond the subtitle "Open Weather", it doesn't have anything related to what I believe you are referring to: Open Weather Map (OpenWeather Ltd) https://openweathermap.org/

In the case of pirateweather.net, "Open" is referencing to the fact that the processing and transforms are openly divulged. Read this http://docs.pirateweather.net/en/latest/ it's interesting

I mentioned darksky because you listed it as part of your evaluation and it was not graded good. This means you were not satisfied already with the approach and results in your region at least.

I also care the most about daily and hourly precipitations and how intense they get

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petodo  3 years ago

So from your linked document it seems they are using these sources:

> Starting from the beginning, three NOAA models are used for the raw forecast data: HRRR, GFS, and the GEFS.

Though I don't understand why they use very very confusing term "An Open Weather Forcast API" including typo (quite unprofessional), which will anyone familiar with weather data sources take as Open Weather (Map).

  • alexander0042  3 years ago

    Hi,

    I'm the dev behind the Pirate Weather API. I really appreciate your feedback here, since I missed that typo, but it's fixed now.

    I went through a ton of iterations of the subtitle, since it's a tricky thing to get right. I think the "Open" part is important, but agree that I don't want it to be confused with "Open Weather Map". I've retitled it to "A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API", which is a little wordy, but might be better