Experimental UK summit weather app

Summit Info
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I do have to confess to being a little obsessed with weather forecasts when planning an activation.
I use several sources, Windy Pro, MWIS, and Mountain-weather. Each seem to have there own strengths.
My wife ribs me as she looks out of the window saying yeah its wet, so must be raining :slight_smile:

I have for sometime considered writing some code to pull the most appropriate data from the various API’s to feed my obsession.

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Yesterday I was listening to a podcast on my ascent up Moelwyn Mawr, and there was some discussion about using Claude AI for programming. This prompted me to have a play with Claude AI this morning. I am actually blown away by its capabilities.

I have managed in a few hours to create an app that would have taken me a week or more to write, especially as its been 20 years since I have done any serious professional programming.
The whole experience and style of interaction with Claude has been like discussing a Functional Design Specification with an intern. They go away do some work, they come back and you say yeah but have you considered this or that.

Now it’s experimental and only to be used for fun, but feel free to have a play with the SOTA weather tool. It’s only optimised for the UK and It is designed around what I want from a SOTA weather app. This may not suit your needs.

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I got an ObiWan error, you know “these aren’t the pages you are looking for..”

Oops! That page can’t be found.

It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try a search?
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Same here - looks like a link to a blog page that has been moved.

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Well spotted, helps if I publish the page, and update the link to the published page doh.
Should work now

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Is there an option to get lower ASL’s nearer to the summit ASL? Did I miss something?

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Claude would appear to be hallucinating. The forecast tomorrow for Scald Law tomorrow appears to be completely at odds to other forecasts. 50kmh stronger winds 15degs cooler temperatures.

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Currently I have set the lowest altitude as 600m, the summary uses the altitude band closest to the summit altitude. I can easily add a lower altitude band.