[fyfy18]

Does anyone know of any projects that allow you to do weather forecasting yourself at home? Of course it's going to be limited without a network of stations, but with measuring atmospheric pressure (and delta) should give you a pretty good indication of the local weather for the next few hours. Maybe you could tie into a receiver for satelite images.

[cryptoz]

This probably isn't quite what you mean, but WRF (Weather Research and Forecast) model is an open source and actively developed weather forecast model you can run at home or on the cloud: https://www.mmm.ucar.edu/weather-research-and-forecasting-mo...

If you collect your own weather data at scale, you can write assimilation routines to get WRF to incorporate your data into the model runs along with NOAA/MADIS/etc-provided data.

I know that's more complicated than you are suggesting but it's worth mentioning.

There are a lot of simple ways to do home weather forecasting. You can write your own Dark Sky clone by downloading/scraping/APIing your local radar station and then write your own wind predictor a few hours into the future based on rain movement or simple statistics from recent local wind data.

[brootstrap]

good advice. Although running WRF locally, what are you a madman?

I would suggest looking into simple predictions. One of the first ones you learn in school is just basically just repeat what happened today. So if today was sunny, tomorrow sunny. Stupid, simple but decently effective. Except during transition periods between air-masses (when weather is changing).