HACKER Q&A
📣 frfl

Fast, accurate, no BS weather website


I have been defaulting to Dark Sky website since it was called Forecast.io for weather information. But since the sale to Apple, they seem to have stagnated if not abandoned any work on that platform.

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

  👤 h2odragon Accepted Answer ✓
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

👤 alex14fr
https://wttr.in/ location>
👤 matthewwolfe
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
👤 chrbarrol
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
👤 dtagames
https://noaa.gov. It's the official weather site of the US Dept of Commerce and is entirely free of hype, ads, and BS.
👤 legrande
I just look out my window
👤 is_true
Your official local weather site.