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by Langdal 339 days ago
I really like the idea, but the data quality for my city (Trondheim, Norway) was unfortunately too off for me to use.

The national forecast service (yr.no) is saying it will be sunny and very hot all through the weekend, while wttr reports it will be 16-19 degrees Celcius and rain on saturday.

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Years ago I was recommended yr.no for weather forecasts, and I visit it often.

I wonder what's special about Norway's meteorologists that they have exceptionally good quality data and ability to build and run a useful public service.

It's likely just the latter, since most meteorological organisations across Europe have data sharing agreements.
+1 for yrno, I'm a long time user. Their prediction got a bit worse over the last 2-3 years (like error variance is now larger), but anecdotally other providers' predictions got even more bad
Yr is generally very accurate. I am from Serbia and I use it as well.
yr.no is the best for my location (northern Germany) as well.

Many locals use DWD (German Weather Service).

A lot of the German sailors use dmi.dk (Danish meteorological institute).

A lot of the Danish sailors use yr.no :)