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Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map

117 points by unstyledcontent 9 hours ago | 29 comments

throawayonthe 8 hours ago

Similar sites:

https://www.ventusky.com

https://www.windy.com/

https://fmhy.pages.dev/misc#climate-weather

unstyledcontent 7 hours ago

Never heard of freemediaheckyeah, I love it. I will have to add ours to the list. One thing that makes us different is we have a LOT more data in one app. If you explore all the layers, you can see tropical cyclone/hurricane data, lightning strikes, hail, renewable energy, and wildfire data. You have to change the focus (top left corner) to see the other collections of layers.

rhyperior 7 hours ago

https://earth.nullschool.net

cozzyd 3 hours ago

This is admittedly quite niche (as I work on a balloon experiment) but I really appreciate how the nullschool map shows the 10 mbar level (5-7 would be even better if course)

vollmarj 6 hours ago

And https://app.precip.ai

noiv 23 minutes ago

Similar: http://zero.hypatia.earth (no vectors/but WebGPU)

jeremyperson 8 hours ago

It is really cool. I don't think I've seen a weather app like it. Works great on Chrome + desktop. Great job. One small feature idea is showing the most hot and cold places at any one time. I love it!

srid 55 minutes ago

Yea, and once you zoom out - being able to intuitively see the temperature all around the planet just creates this sense of appreciation for where we are. On top of it, one can't help but notice that we are floating nowhere in particular in this infinite and eternal universe ...

tcumulus 57 minutes ago

I've worked a lot with weather data in the past (and I still am), and I have to appreciate all the work that went into this. Weather model data is notoriously messy with many different formats and standards, and then I'm not even talking about radar data, etc. Probably when you've got this all abstracted away behind an API it is easier to build such a powerful application as this.

costco 25 minutes ago

This is awesome and very fast especially given all the data displayed!

unstyledcontent 9 hours ago

Xweather Live is an ad-free vector weather map built to showcase our weather APIs. It's a fun app with lots of data layers and features.

Feedback welcome!

mmaunder 8 hours ago

Thanks. Mainly commenting to bookmark this for an aviation project I’m working on. Let me know if there’s anything that differentiates you - particularly for aviation. Thanks.

thefourthchime 5 hours ago

Out of curiosity, how long did this take to write and what AI stack did you use?

wing-_-nuts 7 hours ago

Very cool site! Would you know of any similar maps that explore climate zones or micro climates?

unstyledcontent 7 hours ago

Thanks. There are quite a few cool projects out there. Someone just shared a link to a collection of free weather maps: https://fmhy.pages.dev/misc#climate-weather

In the future we will also be merging another project into this app which is a collection of data from personal weather stations across the country. That data is really cool because it can fill in coverage gap. https://www.pwsweather.com/map/?ob=temps

mlfreeman 7 hours ago

> In the future we will also be merging another project into this app which is a collection of data from personal weather stations across the country. That data is really cool because it can fill in coverage gap. https://www.pwsweather.com/map/?ob=temps

I have four stations uploading there - looking forward to see the result!

BobbyTables2 2 hours ago

Sorry if this sounds harsh but this looks similar to commercial weather services in terms of the types of layers. How does this actually work?

Did you manage to track down their other services’ providers and negotiate access?

Onavo 2 hours ago

They can just use the free government services. Most of the 3rd party services just wrap the various government services behind an API.

1bpp 6 hours ago

Beautiful, brings back memories of Dark Sky & forecast.io

andai 4 hours ago

Cool idea, but this took about 15 seconds to load for me and then lagged very hard, especially while zooming. So I wasn't able to use it very much before getting frustrated enough to exit the page.

cr125rider 8 hours ago

Animating global weather patterns is super cool. It’s wild to see everything move around and ebb and flow. Neat site!

gdevenyi 5 hours ago

A PWA for mobile would be most welcome

cr125rider 4 hours ago

I love PWAs these days. They’re very polished now. A few of my projects I’m going that direction.

Second this.

hrldcpr 6 hours ago

Can someone explain how wind can spiral in to a point? Where does the air "go"? Or does this create a higher pressure?

pulvinar 5 hours ago

If it’s showing surface winds, it goes up. On windy.com there’s an altitude slider that lets you choose which wind level you’re looking at. Haven’t found that yet here.

hahn-kev 8 hours ago

It looks really cool, but all the numbers jiggle around when I pan the map on my phone (Android, Chrome)

xnx 8 hours ago

Neat. Overlay city labels are doubled-up over map tile city labels?

clamchowderz 6 hours ago

really cool, but the search field doesn't update the map after I type in a new location. (safari Version 26.3 (21623.2.7.11.6))

unstyledcontent 6 hours ago

Thanks for catching that, and including browser details.

ahaucnx 5 hours ago

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