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From my perspective as a Swede I've never been satisfied with any international weather API. I've completely lost faith in them.

For years now I've only used the official Swedish meteorological institute (SMHI) app. It used to suck so bad that a lot of Swedes used the Yr app or the Danish DMI app. But it's been vastly improved.

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Kind of the same in the Netherlands. There’s a website buienradar.nl where you can see the clouds movement and you can see in advance when it’s going to rain on you, which for me is the most relevant weather fact.

As far as I know there's a lot of cooperation between the Nordic weather institutes to make their predictions work better. Certainly one example are the weather radars which seem to be standardized and connected in the Nordics.

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