Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists

https://jeisey.github.io/stormwatch/

45•lotusxblack•1w ago

Basically was getting annoyed jumping between 5 different sites during this winter storm season, so I built "StormWatch". It's a no-fuss, mobile-friendly webpage (dashboard) that shows all the stuff I was looking for, but in one simple UI.

Features:

- Real-time NWS alerts with safety tips - Snow/ice/precip accumulation forecasts (+wind) - Dynamic preparation checklists based on your alerts - Supply calculator for your household size - Regional weather news

It's free, no login required, works on any device. Just enter your ZIP.

https://jeisey.github.io/stormwatch/

Uses NWS and GDELT APIs and open source. Feel free to fork and modify however you'd like.

For builders: - Used an API-testing agent to verify all endpoints, response patterns, types, and rate limits - Used a scope & validation agent to keep the slices simple, focused, and tested - VS-code Copilot (Sonnet 4 for dev agents + Opus 4.5 for scope and validation)

Comments

retrocog•1w ago

Nice implementation, very slick. Very easy to get an overview without having to jump around, like you said. I did something similar for our local news and community site, but it is limited to nearby weather stations.

threecheese•1w ago

Really nice, I’ve not seen weather and preparedness packaged this way (and so beautifully). Great work!

tilt_error•1w ago

I now know the weather in Beverly Hills...

FerretFred•1w ago

Haha! Me too! Based in the UK it's one the few ZIPs I know by heart . It's a great site though!

blondin•1w ago

This is very nice!

fragmede•1w ago

I appreciate the respect for privacy, but I'm visiting... somewhere in middle America (in the storm path) for a wedding and don't know my zip code. Click for location is convenient in this and similar cases.

lotusxblack•1w ago

Excellent feedback, will add that to my list of updates. Appreciate it.

dfc•1w ago

The weather news tab was not very useful for the East Coast. More than half the results were not in English or ASCII. The results were just spam links in Chinese, Telugu and Russian. The biggest two spam sites seemed to be stcn and ifeng.

lotusxblack•1w ago

Agreed. The problem with GDELT is unless you're in a major city zip, no news will display. Fallsback to state level which includes some of the junk you see. Going to create a whitelist of sites/networks to make it cleaner. There are some good weather news updates from random local sites that GDELT picks up which would be the only sacrifice here.

RyanShook•1w ago

My favorite thing about this project is that it's 100% html and you're hosting it for free on GitHub pages. Thanks for sharing! GH repo: https://github.com/jeisey/stormwatch

RhysU•1w ago

Please tell me the username "jeisey" is a play on New Jersey accents and this was inspired by today's storm therein.

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