This account will be used for communications, announcements, and support for FediMeteo.

The homepage of the project is https://fedimeteo.com

To contact me, you can use this account or my main one: @stefano@bsd.cafe

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@duncan__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com

https://ca.fedimeteo.com/duncan__british_columbia

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@admin

The 'city' of Duncan, British Columbia, Canada lies at the mouth of the Cowichan Valley on the east side of Vancouver Island. The valley stretches westward into the mountains which form the backbone of the island, then takes a sharp turn north and then west again to the west coast, from which most weather patterns proceed.

The topography results in a weak inversion layer, and generally milder pattern, if more fog, than neighboring regions. Is it possible to add a local feed?

https://it.fedimeteo.com/scandicci

@scandicci@it.fedimeteo.com

#FediMeteo #FediMeteoAdmin #FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoCoverage #Italy #Italia

So I’m asking you all: which country would you like to see among the next ones supported?

Tagging @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services and @FediTips@social.growyourown.services for extra visibility 😉

#FediMeteo #FediMeteoCoverage #FediMeteoAnnouncements

In the past few days FediMeteo seemed to be having some performance trouble. I dug into it and only found minor issues, until I realised the VM itself had fallen off a cliff. After several reboots it became clear that both bandwidth and I/O latency had dropped to absurd levels. I suspect the provider slapped a cap on it.

So I took the chance to move everything to another VM and provider, still at 4 euro per month. And starting today, forecasts will be delivered straight from Italy. The performance jump feels like going from a storm to clear skies.

FediMeteo’s mission goes on. More countries are coming (stay tuned!) and we will keep aiming to serve everything from a 4 euro VM. I do have powerful hardware available, but proving that the project can run on tiny resources is still part of the mission.

#FediMeteo #FediMeteoAnnouncements #FediMeteoServices #VM #RunBSD #FreeBSD

I’ve finally retired the old cron + sh setup for the weather bots. It served us well, but it had a major flaw: if I rebooted the server while it was posting, the job just died halfway. If the server was down during a scheduled slot, the forecast was lost forever.

So, I wrote a custom Python daemon to run inside the FreeBSD Jails.

• It’s stateful now. If a crash happens at city 15 of 50, it resumes exactly there on reboot.

• If the server naps/is rebooting during a scheduled run, the bot realizes it missed a slot and runs immediately upon waking up.

#FediMeteoAnnouncements #FediMeteo #FediMeteoUpdates #snac #snac2

@sollerod@dk.fedimeteo.com

https://dk.fedimeteo.com/sollerod

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| Month | RX | TX | Total | Avg rate |
|----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|----------|
| 2025-01 | 94.83 GiB | 399.68 GiB | 494.51 GiB | 1.59 Mbit/s |
| 2025-02 | 192.88 GiB | 773.54 GiB | 966.42 GiB | 3.43 Mbit/s |
| 2025-03 | 316.48 GiB | 1.25 TiB | 1.55 TiB | 5.10 Mbit/s |
| 2025-04 | 315.47 GiB | 1.21 TiB | 1.52 TiB | 5.16 Mbit/s |
| 2025-05 | 886.55 GiB | 1.37 TiB | 2.23 TiB | 7.33 Mbit/s |
| 2025-06 | 1.07 TiB | 1.32 TiB | 2.39 TiB | 8.12 Mbit/s |
| 2025-07 | 1.12 TiB | 1.40 TiB | 2.51 TiB | 8.26 Mbit/s |
| 2025-08 | 1.11 TiB | 1.43 TiB | 2.54 TiB | 8.33 Mbit/s |
| 2025-09 | 1.08 TiB | 1.43 TiB | 2.51 TiB | 8.51 Mbit/s |
| 2025-10 | 1.11 TiB | 1.46 TiB | 2.57 TiB | 8.45 Mbit/s |
| 2025-11 | 1.04 TiB | 1.38 TiB | 2.43 TiB | 8.23 Mbit/s |
| 2025-12 | 169.98 GiB | 278.75 GiB | 448.73 GiB | 9.13 Mbit/s |
| Estimated | 1.05 TiB | 1.73 TiB | 2.78 TiB | |

#FediMeteoStats

@san_juan__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

@bayamon__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

@carolina__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

@ponce__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

@caguas__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

@mayaguez__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

@arecibo__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

@aguadilla__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

@humacao__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

@rio_grande__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

@cabo_rojo__puerto_rico@us.fedimeteo.com

https://us.fedimeteo.com/san_juan__puerto_rico

https://us.fedimeteo.com/bayamon__puerto_rico

https://us.fedimeteo.com/carolina__puerto_rico

https://us.fedimeteo.com/ponce__puerto_rico

https://us.fedimeteo.com/caguas__puerto_rico

https://us.fedimeteo.com/mayaguez__puerto_rico

https://us.fedimeteo.com/arecibo__puerto_rico

https://us.fedimeteo.com/aguadilla__puerto_rico

https://us.fedimeteo.com/humacao__puerto_rico

https://us.fedimeteo.com/rio_grande__puerto_rico

https://us.fedimeteo.com/cabo_rojo__puerto_rico

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Fedimeteo: A look at the numbers

One important note before looking at these figures: these numbers only reflect direct followers on the Fediverse. They do not account for people following via RSS feeds or those who check the web pages directly. That "hidden" audience is massive but effectively impossible to calculate, so we are strictly looking at the ActivityPub follower counts here. Each country has its own FreeBSD jail.

The Heavyweights: Germany vs. USA
While usfedim (USA) holds the top spot for total numbers with 1,813 followers, defedim (Germany) is remarkably close behind with 1,597. The difference lies in the density: the German community is concentrated around just 138 cities, whereas the US network is spread across a massive 1,243 locations.

Engagement Density
If we look at the ratio of followers per city, the European instances show the highest concentration of users.
Germany** leads with roughly 11.6 followers for every city tracked.
The UK** follows with 8.7 followers per city.
Austria** sits at 7.7.

In these regions, each city feed serves a comparatively larger group of locals.

The "Quiet" Instances
On the other end of the spectrum, some instances are maintaining a lot of data for a very exclusive audience.
Malta (mtfedim)** is tracking 20 different cities but currently has only 2 followers. That is a ratio of 10 cities per follower.
Slovakia (skfedim)** tracks 30 cities for just 8 followers.

The American Scale
The sheer size of the US infrastructure is an outlier. usfedim accounts for 42.6% of all tracked cities in the entire Fedimeteo network (1,243 out of 2,918), but it holds only 23.9% of the total followers. It is by far the largest instance in terms of output, even if the user base is more spread out than in Europe.

Small but Efficient
A special mention goes to The Netherlands (`nlfedim`). With only 36 cities tracked, they have managed to gather 233 followers, making it one of the most efficient instances in terms of community interest relative to the number of locations tracked.

#FediMeteo #FediMeteoStats

@trutnov@cz.fedimeteo.com

https://cz.fedimeteo.com/trutnov

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https://uk.fedimeteo.com/crawley

@crawley@uk.fedimeteo.com

#FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements #UK

#FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAdmin #snac2

Do you want to follow a weather account for your town or city?

There is a Fediverse weather service called FediMeteo which has weather accounts for thousands of locations around the world:

➡️ https://fedimeteo.com

To follow a weather account:

1. Go to https://fedimeteo.com
2. Go to the page for the town/city you want
3. Copy-paste the page's address into the search box in Mastodon etc
4. Click "Follow"

You can also follow updates about the FediMeteo project itself at @admin

#Weather

@cascavel_city__parana@br.fedimeteo.com

https://br.fedimeteo.com/cascavel_city__parana

#FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements #Brazil

@oneonta__new_york@us.fedimeteo.com

@glennville__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com

https://us.fedimeteo.com/oneonta__new_york

https://us.fedimeteo.com/glennville__georgia

#FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements #USA

@milton_keynes@uk.fedimeteo.com

@leighton_buzzard@uk.fedimeteo.com

https://uk.fedimeteo.com/milton_keynes

https://uk.fedimeteo.com/leighton_buzzard

#FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements #UK

@admin So how does one go about getting a town on the list?

Such an amazing project @admin really appreciate it ! Is it a lot of work to add a new city ? I was thinking of Milton Keynes in the UK, there's neighbouring Northampton already ;)

As the great @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services posted about this service, many of you started following me and the cities. And I'm so glad about it!

If you want to know something more about FediMeteo and its story (and how all this is still working on a 4 euro/month VPS powered by #FreeBSD), you can have a look here:

FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/