Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists

Posted by lotusxblack 6 hours ago

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Basically was getting annoyed jumping between 5 different sites during this winter storm season, so I built "StormWatch". It's a no-fuss, mobile-friendly webpage (dashboard) that shows all the stuff I was looking for, but in one simple UI.

Features:

- Real-time NWS alerts with safety tips - Snow/ice/precip accumulation forecasts (+wind) - Dynamic preparation checklists based on your alerts - Supply calculator for your household size - Regional weather news

It's free, no login required, works on any device. Just enter your ZIP.

https://jeisey.github.io/stormwatch/

Uses NWS and GDELT APIs and open source. Feel free to fork and modify however you'd like.

For builders: - Used an API-testing agent to verify all endpoints, response patterns, types, and rate limits - Used a scope & validation agent to keep the slices simple, focused, and tested - VS-code Copilot (Sonnet 4 for dev agents + Opus 4.5 for scope and validation)

Comments

Comment by dfc 44 minutes ago

The weather news tab was not very useful for the East Coast. More than half the results were not in English or ASCII. The results were just spam links in Chinese, Telugu and Russian. The biggest two spam sites seemed to be stcn and ifeng.

Comment by retrocog 4 hours ago

Nice implementation, very slick. Very easy to get an overview without having to jump around, like you said. I did something similar for our local news and community site, but it is limited to nearby weather stations.

Comment by threecheese 3 hours ago

Really nice, I’ve not seen weather and preparedness packaged this way (and so beautifully). Great work!

Comment by fragmede 47 minutes ago

I appreciate the respect for privacy, but I'm visiting... somewhere in middle America (in the storm path) for a wedding and don't know my zip code. Click for location is convenient in this and similar cases.

Comment by blondin 51 minutes ago

This is very nice!

Comment by tilt_error 3 hours ago

I now know the weather in Beverly Hills...