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by greggsy 540 days ago
There used to be a really nice website that allowed you to scroll and scale years worth of historical weather for any location. Also allowed you to prepare average annual graphs.

It fell into disrepair after Flash was killed off, and the maintainer wasn't able to commit time to porting it over to a new platform.

I figure that the commodification of weather data is the real reason why it hasn't been replaced with a viable alternative.

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Weatherspark! It was amazing.
Was or is?

https://weatherspark.com/ is awesome.

Wow. This site is just amazing. Nice and useful (!) graphs especially for comparing cities between each other. And the small things like how they store all the state in the url so I could just share a comparison with a friend by just copying the url. Perfect.
That’s the one, but I recall it having more interacting features like sliders?

It seems more static now.

Still is! But it used to have much more
Oh wow. Those are really cool visualizations. I can't compete :P
Interesting!

Can you describe how it worked? Who knows, maybe I could make it happen.

I've been thinking of creating a more involved "demo" to entice traffic/links/SEO. Maybe something like this could be it.