SHM Posted January 17 Posted January 17 Which is better in terms of weather for a specific location (lots of microclimates in my area) and data use in ISY programming: Openweathermap or Weatherbit? Quote
bpwwer Posted January 17 Posted January 17 That's going to depend on where each service is getting the data for your location. Chances are pretty good that neither will be all that good as they tend to get data from airports. Unless you live next to an airport that is providing data it will probably not reflect what is happen at your location. However, none of the weather service data provides are very transparent about where the data comes from so you may get lucky and one of them is getting data from a weather station close by. If you really want accurate data for your location, your best bet is to get a personal weather station and use that data. 1 Quote
Geddy Posted January 17 Posted January 17 @SHM perhaps you could describe what you're wanting to use it for a little bit. It might help pinpoint something that another option might have or not have. As @bpwwer says since they're pulling from airport locations it might not be of value to you if you're not close to the area being used. I'm about 2 miles from a local airfield that OpenWeather is pulling from so it's fairly accurate. I don't need things so pinpoint accurate to run a personal weather station. For simple temp and humidity I have YoLink sensors outside to get temp and humidity at my location. Quote
SHM Posted January 17 Author Posted January 17 Thanks to both. I'm about 10 miles from the nearest airport in Seattle area , where my current NOAA plugin draws data. But, that data is often incomplete. for example, on a cloudy day I have program to leave some lights on in the house, but the NOAA "climate conditions" is infrequently populated. Quote
Ross Posted Friday at 02:50 PM Posted Friday at 02:50 PM I have my own weather station for current weather, but I use OpenWeatherMap for forecasts. I live in an area of many microclimates (at about 1000 feet in the foothills east of San Diego) and it does a pretty good job with temperature and rain forecasts. Microclimates are tough on any forecasting service as the temperature can be 10-15 degrees different 5 miles from my house. Rainfall variability is high as well due to nearby elevation changes. Quote
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