Overview
meta-pref. Beyond; transcending; more comprehensive
weathern. The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place
MetaWeather is an automated weather data aggregator that takes the weather predictions from various forecasters and calculates the most likely outcome.
The thinking is that the combined knowledge of the forecasters will produce a better prediction.
Coverage
Technical
Platform
MetaWeather runs on a Windows 2003 platform using ASP.net and MySQL. We hope that you like the clean fast look of the site - all the pages should be XHTML 1.0 Strict (fingers crossed - see Beta!).
Predictability?
We define the 'predictability' of the weather as the level of deviation of different forecasts from each other. This is then coverted into a percentage so it can be more easily understood.
Therefore 100% means that all the forecasts agree.
Our predictability rating does not currently take into account the confidence level the forecasters themselves give to their predictions, and therefore makes the assumption that all forecasters have total conviction in their published data. This, of course, may not always be the case!
Is that Wind Direction correct?
In the main yes, but don't rely on that bit - its not very good. We're working on it
Beta
Yeah, sorry. Its in beta, if you see some crazyness going on then we're sorry! We're not just trying to be all Web 2.0 on you ;-). Some aspects of the site arn't very usable at the moment, and the locations are very limited, but we hope you get the idea! Work in progress and all that - I resisted the 'Under Construction' Geocities-esqe animations you'll be pleased to know.
People
The site is owned by Ferrago Ltd, with Jason Cartwright responsible for the concept and coding.
Thanks go to:
- Luke, the other half of Ferrago Ltd
- jschreiber for the weather icons published under the Free Art License. Used with thanks!
- backstage.bbc.co.uk for getting people into the data mashing spirit.
- MySQL for making a badboy database.
- Microsoft, they take a bashing but Windows isn't that bad.
- Rage Against The Machine, The Prodigy, The Killers, The Bravery, Moby, Starbucks and others for keeping code flowing.