Whois & Analysis for openweathermap.org

OpenWeatherMap is an online service that provides weather data, including current weather data, forecasts, and historical data to the developers of web services and mobile applications.

For data sources, it utilizes meteorological broadcast services, raw data from airport weather stations, raw data from radar stations, and raw data from other official weather stations.

All data is processed by OpenWeatherMap in a way that it attempts to provide accurate online weather forecast data and weather maps, such as those for clouds or precipitation.

Beyond that, the service is focused on social aspect by involving owners of weather stations to connect them to the service to increase accuracy of weather data.

The ideology is inspired by OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia that make information free and available for everybody.

It uses OpenStreetMap for display of weather maps.

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.

Most weather phenomena occur in the lowest level of the atmosphere, the troposphere, just below the stratosphere.

Weather refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the averaging of atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time.

When used without qualification, "weather" is generally understood to mean the weather of Earth.

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.

The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, graupel and hail.

Precipitation occurs when a portion of the atmosphere becomes saturated with water vapor, so that the water condenses and "precipitates".

Thus, fog and mist are not precipitation but suspensions, because the water vapor does not condense sufficiently to precipitate.

Two processes, possibly acting together, can lead to air becoming saturated: cooling the air or adding water vapor to the air.

Precipitation forms as smaller droplets coalesce via collision with other rain drops or ice crystals within a cloud.

Short, intense periods of rain in scattered locations are called "showers.".

Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location.

Human beings have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia, and formally since the nineteenth century.

Weather forecasts are made by collecting quantitative data about the current state of the atmosphere at a given place and using scientific understanding of atmospheric processes to project how the atmosphere will change.

A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.