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All the #FediMeteo instances have been upgraded to #snac 2.75

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All the FediMeteo instances have been updated to snac 2.69

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I've just updated the Fedimeteo code! From the next update, you'll have wind forecasts for the coming hours and also for the upcoming days.
Additionally, there have been some underlying changes to prepare for new features... but this one is still under development for now! 😊

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Update: The city of Oss has just been added to Netherlands

@https://nl.fedimeteo.com/oss
@oss

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Good morning, Canada, happy Saturday, and happy first of February! I have a little surprise (not so much, actually) for you: FediMeteo now supports Canada!
You can find the list of cities currently available here: https://ca.fedimeteo.com
The names are city__province. For example, the user from Ottawa will be @ottawa__ontario

Enjoy the forecasts!

Bonjour, Canada, bon samedi et bonne première février ! J'ai une petite surprise (pas tellement, en réalité) pour vous : FediMeteo prend désormais en charge le Canada !
Vous pouvez trouver la liste des villes actuellement disponibles ici : https://ca.fedimeteo.com
Les noms sont ville__province. Par exemple, l'utilisateur d'Ottawa sera @ottawa__ontario

Profitez des prévisions !

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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.

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Infrastructure Update

I have just rolled out a configuration change across the entire FediMeteo network.

I've enabled remote purge propagation. Since weather forecasts have a short shelf life, there is no need for old reports to take up space on your servers.

From now on, when FediMeteo deletes local posts (usually after 14 (was 3) days), we will also send a deletion signal to the rest of the Fediverse. This helps keep your timelines clean and your storage usage low.

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Update: Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil is now covered by FediMeteo

@campinas__sao_paulo

@https://br.fedimeteo.com/campinas__sao_paulo

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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!

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All the #FediMeteo instances have been upgraded to #snac 2.86

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