Recently Weather Underground dropped support for legacy weather
station software. The function of the weather
software I use is to allow my PC to communicate with the weather station and
organize the data so it is easily used. Weather
Advisories and 5 day forecasts are two of the critical items I rely on from
Weather Underground. They also provided “mesonet”
data which gives visibility of other local weather stations in the area. I have been slow to make a move in hopes that
Weather Underground would reconsider their position. A little caveat… They have dropped all support sharing data
with us, yet they are still pulling and using the data from our legacy systems. The part that benefits them has stayed intact. In February, 2016 IBM acquired Weather
Underground. There was a lot of talk in
the weather community that nothing good was going to come from this…. Well, it looks like that has come true.
Along with this, the media is slowly dropping the 5-day weather
forecast tiles that can be easily embedded.
For now the only stations left are KING5 and KIRO7. You could say that my site is a victim of progress.
I am evaluating different solutions to all this and it will
no doubt result in a significant re-write to get the features back that I want
to see. Just thought I would provide an
update as data is slowly disappearing from my site. I hope to have some solutions soon.
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