Hi,
I really miss the old version of the website "weatherspark" It had an absolutely fantastic weather dashboard.
It was a old google-finance-like graph that you could scroll, to zoom in and out to increase the timescale, or left to right to shift the date at the center of the graph.
The lines on the graph shows, current temperature, historical temperature and prediction temperature.
There were bands around the temperature that would indicate temperature averages and records for the date period on screen.
If there were precipitations, it would show as another line the amounts.
In that simple graph you could get the sense of the local weather, what it's been and what it will be, this week, this month or 25 years ago with just your mouse.
With all the weather data being collected by government and available on public APIs, is there any open source self-hosted software that has an effective interactive data visualization user interface as weather spark of old ?
Here is what it looked like, all in a single graph with NO pageloads !
I'm not sure that you really need special software for this. Anything that can consume an API and produce graphs should be able to do it.
Guess I am making this in excel now.
To be clear, I mean something with a user interface that combines multiple aspects of the weather and lets you change the date range by scrolling.
I have not found one of those.
Have you checked grafana? Here is a related tutorial: https://ibug.io/blog/2024/01/weather-forecast-with-grafana/
Yes grafana does seem like a good framework for building such a thing. But has anyone done it ? It is quite a lot to learn so I'm curious to see if someone has made one of these self-hosted meteo application already.
Yes that's a pretty normal graph feature for any dataviz application.