Darksky Data Sources: https://darksky.net/dev/docs/sources
On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 3:37:51 PM UTC-5, Greg Troxel wrote: > Les Niles <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes: > > > 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. > > Agreed that NWS point forecasts (as they call them; I'm guessing that > spot is another word for the same thing) are good. > > The other question is how many places are actually creating forecasts, > vs repackaging NWS forecasts without attribution. While that's legal as > they are in the public domain, being works of the United States, I don't > think it's polite. (I don't know what DarkSky is actually doing.) > > It seems that NWS, and perhaps some other governments, run models and > make the results, and then NWS makes forecasts from multiple models > (applying forecaster judgement). TV stations etc. also make forecasts > from the models, and only sort of attribute the model data as > taxpayer-funded NWS outputs. > > So I guess the big question is if DarkSky is > > 1) just publishing NWS forecasts (and perhaps other agency forecasts in > other places, like UK and the Met Office) > > 2) repackaging some other forecasts based on NWS models > > 3) using NWS data and making their own forecasts > > 4) repackaging some other forecast not based on NWS models > > I think 1 is mostly likely, because 2 and 3 seem to involve having to > pay (or put up with TV ads) and adverse terms, and 4 I have never heard > of. > -- 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/53bb47ad-e635-407a-8de9-544aab7866db%40googlegroups.com.
