PirateWeather.net Reviews and details

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• LongTrailsWeather.net is back online.

  A new service called Pirate Weather has taken up the cause, and created a free and open source alternative that uses the same format. Source: 10 months ago

• Apple’s Weather chaos is restarting the weather app market - The Verge

  Pirate weather seems to be attempting to replicate what made Dark Sky so great, but it still needs more adoption for its api to see if it’s a true replacement. Source: 12 months ago

• Dark Sky briefly returned from the dead, and people were thrilled

  The fact that its free, open sources a lot of it components and uses free open source data for its forecasts (NOAA for current, era5 for historical via Pirate Weather) also elevates it a bit in my eyes. Source: about 1 year ago

• For anyone procrastinating on finding another weather data source before the Dark Sky shutdown next week, I put together a drop-in compatible/ free/ documented API called Pirate Weather.

  Ever since Dark Sky announced they were shutting down, I wanted to find a drop-in compatible replacement for the half dozen things around my house that relied on weather data. Moreover, weather forecast are mostly run by governments, I wanted a data source that made this data much easier to use. The combination of these two goals was Pirate Weather. It’s designed to be 1:1 compatible with Dark Sky, and since every... Source: about 1 year ago