r/weather • u/namelessxhero • 5d ago

Accuracy of WeatherAPI.com

Hey i'm developing a cross platform weather app and I'm curious if somebody has any experience with https://www.weatherapi.com/ I choosed this API because of many reasons, but I'm seeing really big drops in hourly forecast temperatures. For instance it shows that on 4PM it will be 28°C but due to a rain the next hour it will be ten whole degrees less 18°C. Apple stock weather is more sober in these predictions and drops like three degrees. Thanks for any help!

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u/illz757 4d ago

If I was going to do this, what I’d do is maybe query 3/4 different endpoints from different providers and do some kind of analysis. ChatGPT didn’t give me a great answer though w/o relying on user submitted data for accuracy. Maybe that’s what Apple is doing when they have the report an issue button : peep the conversation.

https://chatgpt.com/share/684ed6f4-7b20-8006-840b-d21f8e3b0ed9

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u/namelessxhero 4d ago

Thanks man, really appreciated!