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Show HN: Weather Search – find places by weather

2 pointsby dtertmanover 9 years ago

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dtertmanover 9 years ago
OP here. I&#x27;ve always wondered what it would be like to take the typical weather-site experience (pick a place, see the weather) and flip it on its head - pick the weather, find the place.<p>So, I grabbed a year worth of data at 4000 airport sites from Weather Underground, loaded it all into MySQL, and wrote a query to aggregate it.<p>There are a couple of problems:<p>1. A lot of weather data is of questionable quality. You see things like a daily high of 700 degrees. I took a little time to cleanse some obvious problems, but there is probably more.<p>2. I never put in a loading spinner when you click the button :) So, click and wait, please.<p>3. Google&#x27;s Geochart doesn&#x27;t have a good region for North America. Other continents (if you select only them) will zoom in, but North America specifically won&#x27;t.<p>4. I didn&#x27;t invest a lot of time into preventing bad user behavior. If you send in an impossible search, you&#x27;ll probably get no results, or maybe even a server 500.<p>I hope you have fun playing with it!