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It's cold and cloudy. No snow between 5 and 9 in the morning#FediMeteo 1 - #Google 0#Weather

Happy New Year, #FediMeteo friends!New year, new features! Let’s go step by step:* Some results for city coordinates were not fully accurate, and forecasts were referring to the center of the administrative area rather than the actual city center. This also affected my own city, with a shift of about 30 km. I have revised the coordinate calculation process and, starting from the next update, the reference point will be the center of the target city. I actually discovered this while implementing the last item on this list...* In addition to wind speed, FediMeteo will now include an arrow showing wind direction. The direction will also be reported as a value in degrees. This feature has been requested several times in the past, and I think the time has come to introduce it.* New data added: AQI, the Air Quality Index. Using different indices for each local context would have been complicated, and reporting them all would have made the output unnecessarily complex. For this reason, I chose to use the American AQI for all cities, with a visual indicator to quickly understand the situation at a glance. This is consistent with major weather apps and allows for proper comparisons between different cities. PM2.5 and PM10 values are also included.I hope these new features will be useful and… let’s keep moving forward!#FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements

Happy New Year, #FediMeteo friends!New year, new features! Let’s go step by step:Some results for city coordinates were not fully accurate, and forecasts were referring to the center of the administrative area rather than the actual city center. This also affected my own city, with a shift of about 30 km. I have revised the coordinate calculation process and, starting from the next update, the reference point will be the center of the target city. I actually discovered this while implementing the last item on this list...In addition to wind speed, FediMeteo will now include an arrow showing wind direction. The direction will also be reported as a value in degrees. This feature has been requested several times in the past, and I think the time has come to introduce it.New data added: AQI, the Air Quality Index. Using different indices for each local context would have been complicated, and reporting them all would have made the output unnecessarily complex. For this reason, I chose to use the American AQI for all cities, with a visual indicator to quickly understand the situation at a glance. This is consistent with major weather apps and allows for proper comparisons between different cities. PM2.5 and PM10 values are also included.I hope these new features will be useful and… let’s keep moving forward!#FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements

@AlsoPaisleyCat I'm implementing it right now... 🙂

@catavz true. That's why I hope more and more people will be interested and try the BSDs. They are great to learn, and a great way to make people more aware of what and how they're running.

@pavel @grunfink @openmeteo @FediFollows I'm not aware of it, but boosting

Exactly one year ago, on 30th December 2024, I laid the foundation of FediMeteo.I took a VM, installed FreeBSD, and set up the first jail to support Italy. The goal was to create a tool for my own use, support a few countries, and announce it.Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.FediMeteo now supports 38 countries and 2,937 cities, with more than 7,700 followers in the Fediverse alone, not counting the many people who follow via RSS feeds or visit the web pages.If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/Today is also Tuesday, a #ThankYouTuesday, so I want to say thanks to:OpenMeteo - @openmeteo@fosstodon.org - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful@grunfink@comam.es - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VMFreeBSD, which thanks to the efficiency of the OS and its jail implementation made it possible to run this service in a stable and efficient way with minimal effortFediFollows - @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the projectAll of you, who suggested, encouraged, corrected, and celebrated this projectAnd forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉#FediMeteo #HappyBirthday #Meteo #Weather #FreeBSD #snac #snac2 #OpenMeteo #Fediverse

@stefano @adminPerfetto, sto seguendo entrambi gli account.Grazie.

Ciao, FediMeteo!In the past few days FediMeteo seemed to be having some performance trouble. I dug into it and only found minor issues, until I realised the VM itself had fallen off a cliff. After several reboots it became clear that both bandwidth and I/O latency had dropped to absurd levels. I suspect the provider slapped a cap on it.So I took the chance to move everything to another VM and provider, still at 4 euro per month. And starting today, forecasts will be delivered straight from Italy. The performance jump feels like going from a storm to clear skies.FediMeteo’s mission goes on. More countries are coming (stay tuned!) and we will keep aiming to serve everything from a 4 euro VM. I do have powerful hardware available, but proving that the project can run on tiny resources is still part of the mission.#FediMeteo #FediMeteoAnnouncements #FediMeteoServices #VM #RunBSD #FreeBSD

@_elena thank you. I did it: https://fedimeteo.com/fedi/admin/p/1765180904.566035

Under the hood update!I’ve finally retired the old cron + sh setup for the weather bots. It served us well, but it had a major flaw: if I rebooted the server while it was posting, the job just died halfway. If the server was down during a scheduled slot, the forecast was lost forever.So, I wrote a custom Python daemon to run inside the FreeBSD Jails.It’s stateful now. If a crash happens at city 15 of 50, it resumes exactly there on reboot.If the server naps/is rebooting during a scheduled run, the bot realizes it missed a slot and runs immediately upon waking up.#FediMeteo #SysAdmin #Python #FreeBSD #Coding #SelfHosted #OwnYourData #StayTuned

@admin@fedimeteo.com A nicely rendered version from glow in the terminal.

Hello, new #FediMeteo friends!As the great @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services posted about this service, many of you started following me and the cities. And I'm so glad about it!If you want to know something more about FediMeteo and its story (and how all this is still working on a 4 euro/month VPS powered by #FreeBSD), you can have a look here:FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@BastilleBSD/115586633012620884#FediMeteo is probably the biggest public BastilleBSD managed project I've created.

@Eckernfoerde @tagestipp @nordwetter @admin here we are 🙂 @eckernforde https://de.fedimeteo.com/eckernforde

Hey Fediverse!Just a friendly reminder that FediMeteo brings you weather forecasts for 2908 cities across 38 countries, delivered right to your timeline every 6 hours and in your local language.Getting started is easy:Visit our website to find your country and city - https://fedimeteo.comFollow your city's account (e.g., @roma@it.fedimeteo.com).Enjoy the weather updates!Stay informed, wherever you are!#Weather #Fediverse #FediMeteo #ActivityPub#Argentina #Australia #Austria #Belgium #Brazil #Bulgaria #Canada #Croatia #Czechia #Denmark #Estonia #Finland #France #Germany #Greece #Hungary #India #Ireland #Italy #Japan #Latvia #Lithuania #Malta #Mexico #Netherlands #NewZealand #Norway #Poland #Portugal #Romania #Slovakia #Slovenia #Spain #Sweden #Switzerland #Taiwan #UnitedKingdom #UnitedStates

Thank you, "secret donor", for your donation!#FediMeteo