Show HN: Dropory – Find the sunniest day of the year for any location

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1 point·Vagantem··5 comments

I’ve been in the weather space a bit now when developing https://dropory.com, a free service that lets you find the date with the least rain in the last 10 years - for any location. Good for finding a dry event or wedding date.

An FYI: It can take up to 10 min to generate a report - I had a spinner before but people just left the page. So I implemented email as a way to send the report. I’ve never used the emails addresses for anything else than that.

If you don’t want to leave your email, try it with a 10 min disposable email address. All feedback welcome!

Rainless and Sunniest are two different things.

Also rainless is more important so if this is your website just say rainless

Fair! It’s just so hard to say rainless as a catchy title so figured sunniest would work but you’re right, they are different - will have to work on the copy

If you are interested in expanding the definition to 'sunniest' there are some WMO/NOAA stations which measure cloud cover in octaves (where 0/8 is completely sunny and 8/8 is totally cloudy)

A cool indipendent small website that has a summary is ogimet.com

Here is a summary of Chicago O Hare WMO/NOAA Station no. 72530:

https://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&ord=REV&ndays...

Oh thank you - will deffo look into!

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