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FediMeteo brings real-time weather updates to the Fediverse, covering cities across multiple countries. Explore country-specific weather forecasts and RSS feeds.

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

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

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@LifeTimeCooking@mastodon.au Thank you for your feedback. I tried to check the coordinates that the system is calculating for Adelaide - and they're -34.9281805 138.5999312
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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    Ganga »
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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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      FediMeteo »
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      @LifeTimeCooking@mastodon.au Of course, I completely understand. FediMeteo takes data from OpenMeteo, formats it, and posts it on the Fediverse, without averaging or performing local processing. OpenMeteo probably does this kind of operation, but I will ask them to better understand how it works. Thank you so much for the feedback, as this information is really useful to me!

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        Ganga »
        @LifeTimeCooking@mastodon.au

        @admin Yes, I think I was lumping you and OpenMetro together. Oops.

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