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@admin Oh ok, but seem to disagree considerably with local official weather forecasts. I am interested to see how yours performs.
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@admin I had a poke around and wonder if the figures are being sourced for Adelaide the city, or some part of Adelaide, perhaps south of the city. Adelaide has quite diverse climates - hot and dry in the north, cooler and wetter in the south, ocean breezes/winds on the west, hilly and cooler weather to the east.
The figures provided for Adelaide can be waaay off if compared to the city, ie at times can be 5 degrees or more variation. Eg I looked at about 5:15pm and it was supposed to be 24C according to your Adelaide forecast, but the city was still at 30C, close to the local forecast services. (Also wind forecast was not accurate for the city, altho possible for coastal areas.)
So it left me wondering whether your forecast is meant to be general and cover all of the wider metro area of Adelaide, or for the city itself?
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According to OpenStreetMap, those should point to Victoria Square, Adelaide.
According to OpenMeteo documentation - https://open-meteo.com/en/docs - the Australian data are provided by the BOM and the resolution is 15 kms.
Do you think those divergent data could be explained by the 15 kms resolution? Otherwise, I'll try to contact the OpenMeteo staff.
Thank you!
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@admin The trouble is, in that 15km radius you have the beach and the hills, both cooler than the city, the southern suburbs which can also be cooler. I think your system also uses averages - the telltale sign is the decimal points in the max and min temps. I wonder if anyone can be that accurate in their forecasting, even BOM.
I'll unfollow as I have a good system that I use, and I live North of the city and outside the 15km zone, where it is hotter and drier than your target area.
I think this is a great service for many regions, especially those in rural areas. So well done with all the work. Maybe diverse metro areas are not so well covered.
(I just had a thought. When we live outside of the city centre, (in Adelaide, at least) we make adjustments on the city forecast - at my place it is 2 - 3 degrees hotter, down south perhaps 2-3 degrees or more cooler, in the hills it is cooler still. So if you average the temperatures, the result can be meaningless for everyone. Providing a forecast for the actual city area is possibly more useful for all, and people outside the city will make their adjustments. Just a thought.)
Thanks for listening, I appreciate it.
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@admin Yes, I think I was lumping you and OpenMetro together. Oops.