[farmin]

Do you have a commercial option? Does anyone know good alternatives?

What forecast models do you use for Australia?

[meteo-jeff]

Hi farmin,

so far I do not offer commercial options, just to keep me out of any potential legal issues. In the next weeks I will review everything, make sure attributions and licenses are correct, and remove the non-commercial limitation.

Australia is currently only covered by a global weather model from German Weather service DWD. I will check if BOM offers some open-data models

[farmin]

Thanks for your reply. I think BoM do offer some stuff. But check out SILO for easy access to historical data. https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/

[hugh-avherald]

BoM means $$ even for the last 72hrs

[chipsa]

I know GFS is a global scale model as well. If you're already going to be integrating the other NOAA models, might as well do GFS as well?

[ericd]

I think the issue is probably that NOAA data is gathered via a bunch of agreements with other countries, and at least some of them stipulate non-commercial use. Unsure about how vigorously that’s actually enforced.

In you’re curious to read the license text: https://gourdian.net/g/eric/noaa_gsod.global_summary_of_day#...

[boulos]

Looks like "please contact us" (https://open-meteo.com/en/features#terms). So you're in the right place? :)