Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map

8 hours ago (live.xweather.com)

I've worked a lot with weather data in the past (and I still am), and I have to appreciate all the work that went into this. Weather model data is notoriously messy with many different formats and standards, and then I'm not even talking about radar data, etc. Probably when you've got this all abstracted away behind an API it is easier to build such a powerful application as this.

It is really cool. I don't think I've seen a weather app like it. Works great on Chrome + desktop. Great job. One small feature idea is showing the most hot and cold places at any one time. I love it!

  • Yea, and once you zoom out - being able to intuitively see the temperature all around the planet just creates this sense of appreciation for where we are. On top of it, one can't help but notice that we are floating nowhere in particular in this infinite and eternal universe ...

Similar sites:

https://www.ventusky.com

https://www.windy.com/

https://fmhy.pages.dev/misc#climate-weather

Sorry if this sounds harsh but this looks similar to commercial weather services in terms of the types of layers. How does this actually work?

Did you manage to track down their other services’ providers and negotiate access?

  • They can just use the free government services. Most of the 3rd party services just wrap the various government services behind an API.

Xweather Live is an ad-free vector weather map built to showcase our weather APIs. It's a fun app with lots of data layers and features.

Feedback welcome!

Cool idea, but this took about 15 seconds to load for me and then lagged very hard, especially while zooming. So I wasn't able to use it very much before getting frustrated enough to exit the page.

Animating global weather patterns is super cool. It’s wild to see everything move around and ebb and flow. Neat site!

Can someone explain how wind can spiral in to a point? Where does the air "go"? Or does this create a higher pressure?

  • If it’s showing surface winds, it goes up. On windy.com there’s an altitude slider that lets you choose which wind level you’re looking at. Haven’t found that yet here.

It looks really cool, but all the numbers jiggle around when I pan the map on my phone (Android, Chrome)

Neat. Overlay city labels are doubled-up over map tile city labels?