Do you use the NWS spot forecasts? I live on a ridge in the Santa Cruz mountains with no NWS stations around and weather that is very different than the valleys on either side. The NWS forecast is pretty accurate, and much better than DarkSky which doesn’t seem to understand that we’re above the usual summer inversion. I extended the weewx forecast module to support the NWS spot forecasts.
-Les > On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:09, p q <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a word, microclimates. > > I'm using NWS now. It's good, but I found that WU was more accurate. Summer > high/lows were closer to what I was actually getting. I live in a rain shadow > and I think WU did a better job of taking that into account. The nearest NWS > station is only 6 miles away but it could be 5 degF different from here in > the summer. WU had a forecast for the zipcode. Maybe I'm deluding myself, but > it seemed more accurate. > > The second nearest is 15 miles away and could easily be 40 degF different in > the summer. > > On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 11:26:22 AM UTC-8, vince wrote: > On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 11:12:58 AM UTC-8, p q wrote: > I'm in the US (SF Bay Area). Does anyone have any recommendations for what > forecast source to use? Darksky? Windy? Give WU another shot? > > Why not NWS ? > > I > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3bff6d0a-2dd7-4559-b8c2-a7ea9c5f2563%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3bff6d0a-2dd7-4559-b8c2-a7ea9c5f2563%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/DE32D57B-D305-46F9-943C-2D79982D149A%40gmail.com.
