FediMeteo
@admin@fedimeteo.com
1 following, 694 followers
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
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:
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
p.s. If your town or city is missing, you can ask if it can added to FediMeteo by contacting @admin or @stefano
p.p.s. If an account looks blank or old, don't worry! Just follow it anyway and the weather posts will start showing up within 6 hours. (This happens if you are the first person to follow an account from your server, more info at https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank)
@FediFollows @admin @stefano the project is wrongly assuming that there's only one language spoken in a given country. Is there a plan to fix that?
CC: @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services @stefano@bsd.cafe
@admin @FediFollows @stefano Spain would need Catalan for cities in Catalonia/Valencia/Balearic islands, Galician for Galicia and Basque for the Basque Country. That's why I say that tying language to the country level is not ideal.
CC: @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services @stefano@bsd.cafe
@admin @FediFollows @stefano understandable and acceptable are two different concepts :D
@tsdgeos @admin @FediFollows @stefano could you at least say one nice thing amongst pointing out all the flaws?
@FediFollows @admin @stefano For Brussels the interleaving of French and Dutch in the same line is a little clunky.
I'd suggest either
a) having an entire report in one language, followed by a ========== divider line, followed by the other language,
or b) doubling up the feed into @bruxelles (fr) and @brussel@be.fedimeteo.com (nl).
Otherwise, thanks for implementing this!
@FediFollows @admin as the first birthday of the project is approaching, it's probably time to add some more new countries.
@FediFollows @FediTips that's a good idea! I'll probably do it tomorrow or in the coming days. Thank you!
@FediFollows I found out that the one I have chosen for the city I live in hasn't posted since September 15, 2025.
That sounds like a bug, @admin should be able to fix it if you can let them know the city (you can message them privately if you want).
The problem is probably this: nobody in your instance is following that city, so it hasn't received any updates for a long time. Just start following the city and, every 6 hours, you should receive the forecasts. Let me know if you still can't see the updates after some hours.
I looked up my area (Central Coast, NSW Australia), and noticed a 1 day date discrepancy.
Current date is 03-Dec-2025, but fedimeteo reports 2025-12-02
OK, I've tried this, but I'm unfollowing.
On my phone, it just presents as a dense, incomprehensible wall of text.
Do I need two different windspeed measurements? Yet nothing to show whether temperatures are in °C or °F.
Compared to a WillyWeather graph, where I can see at a glance if I can go for a bicycle ride around the lake before the rain/wind/storm hits, fedimeteo is just of no use to me. 😥
I would not describe every 6 hours as realtime.
6 Hours is good enough to keep people informed on the general weather trend in a given area.
It is amazing that no one checks their local radar when the conditions are nice, but when there is a storm in the area, then the servers get crushed.
People forget that the radar results they see are not realtime, typically 15 minutes behind, but they want to see if they are about to get hit by the storm.
That would be a good time to go outside and look.
That is the best realtime result you can get.
Apart from India, Japan and Taiwan, no other Asian countries
@FediFollows @admin I wonder if it's possible to add in English instead 🤔
@cascavel_city__parana@br.fedimeteo.com
@oneonta__new_york@us.fedimeteo.com
@glennville__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
https://us.fedimeteo.com/oneonta__new_york
@milton_keynes@uk.fedimeteo.com
@leighton_buzzard@uk.fedimeteo.com
https://uk.fedimeteo.com/milton_keynes
@admin @stefano @milton_keynes @leighton_buzzard Meteo over Bletchley Park, that means…. It’s mainly raining cryptograms there. A huge flow, at times.
@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 ;)
@admin Hello, any chance of adding Cascavel city, Paraná state, in Brazil?
@admin the Cascavel account said, for the second time, that it couldn't find Cascavel city. the message was in Portuguese.
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/
@admin @FediFollows such a great story. Wonderful to hear about the journey behind such a useful and clever service.
@meckenheim@de.fedimeteo.com
https://de.fedimeteo.com/meckenheim
#FediMeteo #FediMeteoAnnouncements #FediMeteoUpdates #Germany #Deutschland #Wetter #Weather
@admin @meckenheim thanks Fedimeteo
As usual, as soon I select "Germany" everything turns in German language, with the common idea that if you are in Germany you must know the German language...
That's ok, I am getting used to it
@umbeebmu @admin @meckenheim It's a "feature" of the FediMeteo project: forecasts in local languages. I can't provide them in multiple languages (except for bilingual countries) as it's a Fediverse platform, not a "normal" website. But I've added the emojis to simplify the reading for non native speakers.
@stefano @umbeebmu @admin @meckenheim
What's the underlying software? ActivityPub actually supports multilingual objects (via contentMap), so if the software is custom you can probably generate them, although it remains to be seen how Mastodon interprets them.
@oblomov @umbeebmu @admin @meckenheim it's snac
@stefano @umbeebmu @admin @meckenheim OK I have no idea if or how well it would support a multilingual post 8-)
@sarasota__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
https://us.fedimeteo.com/sarasota__florida
#FediMeteo #FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements #USA #Weather #Florida
It's amazing how much energy has been injected into the FediMeteo project by @stefano
I've just surfed to the page and saw this enormous amount of Cities which are now covered
Two Thousand nine hundred and eight cities!
Yes you've read that right 2908 cities.
In order to get a city up and running in the system there's a significant amount of code that Stefano needs to add to the system. He has of course written everything in a modular and scalable manner, but that does not make the work any less.
We should all be thankful for this work that is done so that people from thousands and thousands of cities can see their weather right in the FediVerse.
If your city has not been covered yet, just be patient, like me. Realize how much work Stefano does in his free time in an OpenSource manner.
#Programming #OpenSource #technology #weather #FediMeteo #FediVerse #BSD #UNIX
@eckernforde@de.fedimeteo.com
https://de.fedimeteo.com/eckernforde
#FediMeteo #FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAdmin #FediMeteoCoverage #Germany #Deutschland #Wetter #Weather
fedimeteo.com
Das Projekt fedimeteo.com bietet #Wetterinformationen für rund dreitausend Städte in rund vierzig Ländern. Als Basis für die #Wetterdaten dient #OpenMeteo. Die Wetterinformationen werden in lokaler Sprache verschickt.
Kurzanleitung
Wähle Deine Stadt, indem Du mit dem passenden Land beginnst.
Städte in #Deutschland finden sich hier:
https://de.fedimeteo.com/
Wähle Deine Stadt und folge dem passenden fediversalen Account.
Für #Hamburg ist dies: https://de.fedimeteo.com/hamburg
bzw. @hamburg@de.fedimeteo.com (Hamburg - FediMeteo)
Übrigens, die Anbindung an das #Fediverse via #ActivityPub erledigt im Fall von #FediMeteo die Software #Snac.
Für allgemeine Projektupdates kann man @admin@fedimeteo.com folgen.
Für #Wetter zu ausgewählten Orten in #Norddeutschland, siehe auch:
https://mastodonien.de/@nordwetter
bzw. @nordwetter@mastodonien.de
@tagestipp @nordwetter @admin Wie/wo kann man einen Urlaubsort wie #Eckernförde zu der Auswahlliste hinzufügen lassen?
@tagestipp @nordwetter @admin Would you kindly accept this as an official request, or better still, as a friendly plea, @stefano?
Getting started is easy:
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#Argentina #Australia #Austria #Belgium #Brazil #Bulgaria #Canada #Croatia #Czechia #Denmark #Estonia #Finland #France #Germany #Greece #Hungary #India #Ireland #Italy #Japan #Latvia #Lithuania #Malta #Mexico #Netherlands #NewZealand #Norway #Poland #Portugal #Romania #Slovakia #Slovenia #Spain #Sweden #Switzerland #Taiwan #UnitedKingdom #UnitedStates
The FediMeteo project puts weather forecasts into my mastodon timeline by following the bot account for my city.
@melbourne__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
https://us.fedimeteo.com/melbourne__florida
https://at.fedimeteo.com/zell_am_see - @zell_am_see@at.fedimeteo.com
#FediMeteo #FediMeteoUpdated #FediMeteoAnnouncements #Austria
Извинявам се за предишната грешка.
https://bg.fedimeteo.com/botevgrad - @botevgrad@bg.fedimeteo.com
#FediMeteo #FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements #Bulgaria
@university_park__pennsylvania@us.fedimeteo.com
https://us.fedimeteo.com/university_park__pennsylvania
#FediMeteo #FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements #USA #Pennsylvania
https://it.fedimeteo.com/cavalese
#FediMeteo #FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements #Italia #Italy
@bernstein@at.fedimeteo.com - https://at.fedimeteo.com/bernstein
https://us.fedimeteo.com/burlington__massachusetts
@burlington__massachusetts@us.fedimeteo.com