Looking for a Weather Site? Try Forecast.io

Great New Weather Site: Forecast.io

If you’re not a Nerd constantly combing the web for new info, you’ve probably missed the release of yet another app in the sea that seems to surge in daily. But those of us who spend our days wading in that briny ocean occasionally find a pearl worth bringing back to land to show off. Today’s pearl is called forecast.io.
Forecast.io is a new way to get your weather. Rather than go through a major corporation like weather.com for your weather, forecast.io gives you real-time coverage of the weather in your area as well as minute-by-minute forecasts for the next week.

And…when we say minute-by-minute, that’s what we mean. You can use the site to track down to the minute when it will start raining or snowing and how long it will last. Now you can plan around those surprise storms!


Now this already is pretty impressive – but there’s more. Forecast.io allows you to play an animation of current weather trends, just like on TV. The site plays smoothly on any modern browser, thanks to the HTML5 technologies in use. Translated from Nerd-speak, this means that if you’re using Chrome or a similar modern browser, you’ll be able to keep up on the weather just like your local news station. The site can also be used on your Smartphone, which will automatically detect your location.

In addition, it includes a “time machine” feature. This allows you to look at historical data from various locations. You can check what the weather was in hundreds of places over the globe for any date back almost a hundred years! The impressive part about that data though, is that the website creates a model of how particular dates in the future might occur. This means that if you’re planning an outdoor even in six months, you’ll be able to make a much more educated guess on what weather conditions will be like then.

Forecast.io is made by the same developers as Dark Sky, a popular app for Apple devices that includes the basic functionality of predicting and displaying weather patterns, but this makes the data available to all, not just iPhone and iPad users. The company is planning to expand the product’s features in the coming months.

How much does it cost to subscribe to this service? Nothing at all. Just visit Forecast.io on your web-enabled device to get started!