ultra-weather VS open-meteo

I tried sharing a couple of my web apps:

- HN the way I want to read it: https://hw.leftium.com/

- Source code: https://github.com/Leftium/hckrweb

- Weather forecast compared to last two days' weather: https://github.com/Leftium/ultra-weather#readme

One of the reasons I built https://uw.leftium.com/ was so I could see the previous two days' weather.

It uses the DarkSky API, but also supports other weather API's: https://github.com/Leftium/ultra-weather#readme

UltraWeather uses the openweather geocoding API[1]:

https://openweathermap.org/api/geocoding-api

Pretty generous free tier, and paid options seem pretty reasonable.

[1]: https://github.com/Leftium/ultra-weather#specify-a-location

Yup, just manually type your location in that window.

Weather is coming (at least for now) from https://open-meteo.com/

I tried out the new omWeather and I definitely like it even better now. It uses a different data source, open-meteo.com, which doesn't require an API key the way OpenWeatherMap does, has better location search, has working sunrise/sunset time display, and a more informative main screen widget with observation and forecast information.

Then I started to learn about wind and I got interested in getting wind details easily so to note them down. I asked around my community and I got an answer: open-meteo.

Open-Meteo

We used free and open-source weather API Open Meteo to get a real-time forecast and convert data such as windspeed into the Beaufort scale for surveying.

I ran into this exact problem almost a year ago now when I first started learning. Simple answer is you can’t unless you build your own server and use environment variables. My solution was to use an API that doesn’t need a key.