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Darksky could do it back in the day more or less. you’d get messages that it would rain in about 15 minutes and stop in the next 30.

Thing is, precep maps don’t work everywhere. You’re probably in a location like me where a thick front rolling through will almost always bring rain. If you get into warmer tropical climates, rainclouds will just poof out of nowhere and drop rain on your ass while other crazy fronts will pass over with nothing but some dark clouds.

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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Apple bought darksky, and Apple Weather now has that feature that notifies you before it rains.

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- linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  yeah, i don’t run apple so they don’t exist for me anymore.
  
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  - friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That sucks. It is so frustrating when large companies shut down widely used public APIs.
    
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    Talaraine@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I can't really describe to you how angry I was when that shit went through. Like... I knew it was ridiculous to get so angry but, I LOVED THAT FREAKING APP.
    
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- c0smokram3r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Apple butchered the integration. I fucking hate the stock iOS weather app 😤🤬
  
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- solrize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  Apple bought darksky
  
  OMG I had no idea. Ouch.
  
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  - Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Oh, yeah. Not only did they take it away from all Android users, they also killed the API that let other apps access it. I wrote an open-source tool that made Dark Sky data available to Wear OS watch faces. It worked beautifully for several years, until Apple killed it.
    
    The worst of it is that was my second attempt. An earlier version of the same tool worked with Weather Underground data. Then IBM bought it, changed the API completely, and priced it so that only business could afford it.
    
    I haven’t had the heart to try a third time.
    
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    juststoppingby@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Just putting it out there, but the National Weather Service has a free API here.
    
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    sramder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    LOL. Thanks for your service. I think you should let yourself off with time served ;-)
    
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    brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    You wouldn’t scrape WUnderground
    
    😉
    
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    solrize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Does most weather data in the US ultimately come from weather.gov? No idea about API but maybe it can be scraped from the web.
    
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