New doesn't always mean better.
They focus on presenting a good amount of data in a pretty simple way.
Because of the nature of what they do there will always be a ton of data to present or display. At least in my opinion, NOAA does a great job here.
Their UIs have always been simple, easy to use, and reliable. Some data gets buried but that's the nature of it.
I'm sure the team is well-intentioned, but it should have been done more thoughtfully.
I knew a colleague who is on a sailing team and I knew she would know weather, so I asked her, what is a good weather site without much ads and with a simple interface? And she replied immediately, weather.gov. I could have kissed her, because this was such an amazing and pragmatic idea I wouldn't have come up with on my own. And weather.gov has been my go-to weather site for probably 15 years.
It will suck if weather.gov's service is degraded in some way. No matter how many people hate it for existing, the USGov truly puts out excellent science and fantastic content. So much of it is publicly exposed, public domain, and in the service of the American people. It will be sad to watch this valuable infrastructure decay or be abandoned.
The Meteoblue predictions seem sometimes much different from other predictions, and it was said that Meteoblue had a combined model that may be better than all other models, so I’d like to see some data.
js2•8mo ago
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