It is better in performance but I miss a lot of the data available from WU, and the US-only thing is a downer too.

(I switched to the free US NWS / NOAA API for All Clear Weather.

So for each API call you want to make, you should have 5-10 error cases to catch and then retry.

So many calls would fail for various reasons. The API was so bad (in terms of service uptime) that I learned a lot about how to write retry logic for API calls on mobile. It is not reliable and they shut down without notice.įunny timing this morning - I wrote about my experience with this API in my Show HN a few hours ago, before I knew about this news: Īnd another link for the lazy, the link to the WU community when we all noticed that this wreck was happening. Very bad decision-making and handling at IBM and I will not be supporting any of their businesses in the future. It hurt me deeply, making 1-2 months of dedicated work directly against this API to be useless. When they finally cut off the payment form and removed their API plans without notice in the summer there was an uproar. The API was abandoned months or years ago but they were still taking people's money for it. This official announcement is months late. Looks like that's no longer the case, so maybe something is still going on over there.

I will miss it when they inevitably discontinue it.Įdit: In fairness, I just visited the site for the first time in a while and it looks like they finally fixed their weather map - for at least several years after the redesign was 'complete', the default view for the weather map would load so many weather stations it would grind pretty much any browser on any machine to a halt. It's a shame because their forecast graph is quite possibly the best weather visualization ever - at a glance, I can see what the whole day is likely to look like. Between their terrible site redesign a few years back that just sort of stopped once it got to about 75% functional, and the way they seem to disable features whenever they start requiring a little more effort to support, it feels like there's maybe one or two people working on the site in their spare time trying to keep the lights on. I don't know what the internal situation is with WU, but I have to wonder if they're not really a going concern within TWC anymore.

Underground weather service