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24 alternatives to Making pro weather data free for Hurricane Dorian

I have added OpenZones to Flowx, my Android weather app[0]. OpenZones are regions covering disaster zones where all the pro data in the app is freely available. I have created an 1200km diameter OpenZone over Florida with Hurricane Dorian approaching. So if you add Florida to the app, you can view radar, NOAA's GFS, NAM and HRRR models, CMC GDPS and RDPS models, and the DWD (Germany) ICON model. There are also predicted hurricane tracks from the NOAA and CMC ensemble models which I find extremely valuable to predict the possible paths of Dorian. This YouTube video[1] shows an example of the…

Flowx is an Android weather app that provides free professional-grade weather data in disaster zones through its OpenZones feature. During Hurricane Dorian, a 1200km zone over Florida offered users access to radar… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Making pro weather data free for Hurricane Dorian launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Weather Forecast APIs with weather models from multiple national weather providers, combining the best models for accurate forecasts worldwide. Explore the API documentation to learn more about the available weather models, their origin countries, resolutions, forecast lengths, and update frequencie

    2021 · open-meteo.com · its alternatives →

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    Explore global weather forecasts on interactive maps with temperature, wind, and precipitation overlays. 16-day outlooks for cities worldwide, powered by NOAA GFS.

    2014 · weather-explorer.com · its alternatives →

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    Predicting cyclone paths & intensity 15 days ahead

    2025 · accounts.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Flowbite▲506

    Open-source library of Tailwind CSS components

    2021 · flowbite.com · its alternatives →

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    A weather app for people who hate weather apps.

    2018 · alcohollick.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source ecosystem built on top of Tailwind CSS

    2022 · flowbite.com · its alternatives →

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    An extensible, state-of-the-art framework for columnar compression, and the fastest FOSS columnar file format. Formerly at @spiraldb, now an Incubation Stage project at LFAI&Data, part of the Linux Foundation. - vortex-data/vortex

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Stay ahead of the weather with precise 48-hour radar, forecasts, and real-time updates from the National Weather Service. Now with Hurricane Outlooks!

    2024 · weatherreportnow.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! Flowtide is a project I have been working on for about 2 months now. It is a customizable new tab page for Firefox or Chrome. By default, it is configured to have a minimal amount of features, but it can be configured to include a clock, to-do list, or even soundscapes. Install: https://flowtide.app/ GitHub: https://github.com/thingbomb/flowtide

    2024 · flowtide.app · its alternatives →

  14. 14IB

    I built a weather and hurricane tracking site for the Eastern Caribbean islands (https://dewedda.com). PHP, MySQL, Cloudflare, Visual Crossing API, Leaflet.js for maps. The interesting part wasn't the stack. It was realizing how much the interpretation layer matters when you're building for a specific region. Wind descriptions, "feels like" calculations, condition summaries, all tuned for temperate climates by default. I've been reworking them for the Eastern Caribbean audience. Wrote about what I learned: https://hydn.dev/82-degrees-feels-like/

    Apr 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Mathematical art SVG creator with infinite variations

    2019 · msurguy.github.io · its alternatives →

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    PressureNet Is A Global Crowsourced Weather Forecasting App Which Forecasts Weather Using Atmospheric Pressure Readings From Users Phones

    2014 · pressurenet.io · its alternatives →

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    A huge pack of layouts for UX prototyping

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Experience the weather like never before

    2023 · opticweather.com · its alternatives →

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    Stormia▲73

    Beautiful animation of live weather in the US

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    This is a service I've built to provide equirectangular cloud maps of the whole Earth, updated every 3 hours, for free. It's based on infrared and visible light data from EUMETSAT, processed to enhance the clouds and try to reduce the impact of surface temperatures on the final image. I built it because it's surprisingly hard to find these kinds of images in a format that's useful to developers and hobbyists. I was building a 3D ISS tracker and wanted to include live clouds but couldn't find anything good, so I got sidetracked, and here we are.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello! I'd like share about my sideproject https://gribstream.com It is an API to extract weather forecasting data from the National Blend of Models (NBM) https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/mdl/nbm and the Global Forecast System (GFS) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-climate-models/gl... . The data is freely available from AWS S3 in grib2 format which can be great but also really hard (and resource intensive) to work with, especially if you want to extract timeseries over long periods of time based on a few coordinates. Being able…

    2024 · gribstream.com · its alternatives →

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    I was walking around New York last month during some light rain and noticed about half the people had umbrellas open. When the rain picked up a few minutes later, that number jumped closer to 80%. It got me thinking it'd be cool to track this somehow, so I built a website! I am taking a sidewalk livestream, feeding it into a YOLO model for people tracking, then sending a frame of each detected person to Gemini 2.0 Flash, which returns structured JSON about each person's clothing and if they're holding an umbrella. I also had fun making the site look like a TV weather channel. I showed some…

    2025 · walzr.com · its alternatives →

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    Basically was getting annoyed jumping between 5 different sites during this winter storm season, so I built "StormWatch". It's a no-fuss, mobile-friendly webpage (dashboard) that shows all the stuff I was looking for, but in one simple UI. Features: - Real-time NWS alerts with safety tips - Snow/ice/precip accumulation forecasts (+wind) - Dynamic preparation checklists based on your alerts - Supply calculator for your household size - Regional weather news It's free, no login required, works on any device. Just enter your ZIP.…

    Jan 2026 · jeisey.github.io · its alternatives →

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    This was posted before but I'm quite pleased to share a major update for https://oikolab.com. We now have available seven decades of hourly weather data starting from 1950 for any location in the world, thanks to the recent publication of ERA5 reanalysis data from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). ERA5 is gap-free, gridded dataset generated using data assimilation method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_assimilation), similar to NWP models but with the benefit of hindsight. As far as we're aware of, we're the first weather data…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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