Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!
Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.
FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.
You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).
Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands – with many more regions coming soon!
FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.
Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
https://fedimeteo.com
Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️
FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Awesome! Thanks for that impressive project :-)
@[email protected] Cool project! Thank you so much. 🤩
@[email protected] very nice! Can you add Brazil (São Paulo)
@[email protected] How do you follow a feed through Mastodon? I’m searching and I can’t find anything. Thanks.
That’s a nice addition @stefano, but old habits (from the conky days) are hard to change 😅
$ curl wttr.in/Ferrara@[email protected] Very interesting service! I‘m in the unfortunate position that my city has umlauts in it: München (Munich). The profile, however, is called „Munchen“. It’s ok if the handle has an u instead of a ü but could the title be changed to the proper spelling? The German forecasts themselves contain umlauts („bewölkt“ ☁️). All good there.
@[email protected], what a fantastic project!
Can you add the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in Spain? It’s a city with more than 150K inhabitants.
@[email protected] thank you!
Sure, I’ve just added it: @[email protected]
Can I add my country, e.g. Ireland, in particular the Dublin region?
@[email protected] sure. Ireland is in the next batch of countries that will be added - I think I’ll proceed tomorrow
@[email protected] @[email protected] I decided to set it to Gaelic as I was quite sure everybody, in Ireland, could understand (and appreciate) it. But I see I was wrong. Having the two languages could be a problem, maybe I could just switch to English for Ireland, too. What do you think?
@[email protected] @[email protected]
Just English, please.
@[email protected] @[email protected] ok, switched to English
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Thank you, that was quick 😄
@fae2535 Ireland is here 🙂 You can find Dublin here: https://ie.fedimeteo.com/dublin
Thank you!
@stefano @fae2535 Nice work. I run my own weather station using https://weewx.com (open source sw) on Linux on a raspberry pi. Recently came across and enjoyed your BSD advocacy (been running TrueNAS on an HP NL54 for 10 years w zero downtime - power outages only; and pfsense on a Qotom mini PC). You may have inspired me to try FreeBSD (on an old ThinkCentre PC) just because it’s so long since I last did so. 👍
@[email protected] @[email protected] that would be a nice test. Let us know how it will turn out!
@[email protected] Molto Interessante! è possibile aggiungere Senigallia e Fano in Italia?
@pietro395 aggiunte!
@[email protected] grazie! Le vedo e riesco a seguirle, non vedo però post dalla mia istanza, mentre dal sito sembrerebbe ce ne sia uno
@[email protected] I’m looking forward to if/when you expand to Canada!
@[email protected] very cool! South Africa, when you have a chance, please
@[email protected] „502 Bad Gateway“ when I click on Germany
@[email protected] Any timeline for adding the Scandinavian/Nordic countries? I vote (completely selfishly) to include Malmö, Sweden first 😄
@fanden yes, they’ll be coming quite soon. I’m trying to evaluate if I need another/more powerful VM 🙂
@[email protected] TBF, for Malmö you hardly need live updates, just put “wet and grey” any day of the week 😄
@[email protected] Ooooh, nice service!
I only have a tiniest QoL suggestion: Add a button to copy the bot handles to clipboard. After I clicked through the web page to find “my” bot, it is a bit cumbersome to mark and copy the handle in order to paste it in my mastodon client (at least on mobile).
