Dear WeatherCat fans,
There was a reply on MacWeather.net from one of the developers of the Aeris Weather API explaining how the system actually works. You can read it here:
http://www.macweather.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=565#p3184He claims that we should not have any privacy fears when our location is pinpointed by the services used by HAMweather and that only National Weather Service official stations are used in reporting weather data. So our submissions are not potentially getting folks into trouble.
There is just one fly in the ointment. HAMweather reports weather conditions for locations where . . . . National Weather Service doesn't actually have a reporting station. This is something I have long suspected. Somehow conditions are being interpolated at locations where an official station doesn't exist. I'm sure this is fairly commonplace but . . . . that doesn't mean it is very accurate!
As a case in point here is what HAMweather reported as weather near to me:
The actual temperature at my Davis VP-2 at the time of visiting HAMweather . . . . 62.4˚F!!
There ought to be a really great advertising opportunity for Davis Instruments in there somewhere!!
Cheers, Edouard