weatherretrospect.com is part of a case study for using a microservice architecture to collect, store, analyze and visualize weather data provided by Germany's National Meteorological Service, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD).
In the case study weatherretrospect.com implements the web-based user interface to visualize weather data, which includes actual observed weather data and weather forecasts. One of the interesting features is that weatherretrospect.com allows for comparing weather data observed in the past with forecasts that were supposed to predict the observed weather data. Dependending on the weather station one can see that forecasts are often very good, whereas for other weather stations, due to geographical particularities, forecasts are way off.
A running instance of weatherretrospect.com is available at http://www.weatherretrospect.com (English) and http://www.wetternachhersage.de (German).
weatherretrospect.com is being developed and maintained by the Chair of Automation and Energy Systems at the Saarland University.
weatherretrospect.com is released under the ISC license.
The easiest way to set up weatherretrospect.com for testing purposes (not for production!!!) is as follows.
Clone the repository from github with the git command:
$ git clone https://github.com/UdSAES/weatherretrospect.com.git
Then change to the directory of the cloned repository:
$ cd ./weatherretrospect.com
The ui can be started with the development web server of webpack which is included in the repository:
$ npm run dev
Now the application will start a web server which listens on port 12346. Assuming you want to test weatherretrospect.com on your local machine, enter the following URL in your browser:
http://127.0.0.1:12346
If everything is fine, you should see a user interface like this:
In order to change the listening port of the web server, the port attribute of the dev object in the file ./config/index.js needs to be changed.
With the standard settings, the weather data is pulled from https://weather.designetz.saarland, which is a microservice run by the Chair of Automation and Energy Systems at the Saarland University. The microservice is a running instance of dwd_forecast_service. If you want to pull the data from your own instance of dwd_forecast_service you can set the environment variable DWD_DATA_API_ORIGIN before starting the web server:
$ DWD_DATA_API_ORIGIN=https://your-own-server-address-for-weather-data.com:12345 npm run dev