I’m pleased to have come across #FediMeteo, which provides federated #weather forecasts for thousands of global locations, including many in the U.S. — definitely complements U.S. models. Thanks for making these model data avail in the #fediverse, @stefano! » https://fedimeteo.com
Hello Fedi friends!
My child and I arrived in Italy yesterday to spend all of July at my parents'
What's the first thing I did this morning? Following @milano to have weather forecasts here in my feed.
Special thanks to @stefano for creating this incredible project.
For those of you not familiar with #FediMeteo, it covers 2893 cities in 38 countries. All powered by a 4€/month VPS with #snac and #freeBSD:
Grazie Stefano!
One of the things I've often worried about is latency. Both for FediMeteo and the BSD Cafe, I've always wondered how high the latency might be around the world, but no one has ever complained.
Now I can check from Canada, and the difference is really minimal - so low it's almost imperceptible. I still think about the wait times for web pages back in the old 56k days...