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I'm the dev for this, so can shed some light on this! Weather Underground was a pretty out there choice- I guess the kind of people who like putting together weather APIs aren't great at naming things. I considered "Bright Ground", and still have the domain name for it, so maybe it'd be worth spinning up another API endpoint/ branding that uses that and has a more commercial focus, keeping Pirate Weather as the free and open source branding.


FWIW I love the name Pirate Weather. Thanks for the work!


Keep the name - this is not vc bait


I like the name pirate weather a lot.


wunderground.com has existed for a long time. Defining feature it is can crowd source weather


That used to be the defining feature. IBM has killed the community and put alot of restrictions on the data


I wonder if they put the codebase into ClearCase too.


Rrr-mate, Rmate, Are-matey,

And variants thereof perhaps


Weather Underground would be hilarious.


Not only is it already a thing, IBM of all people own them now.


We took the real Weather Underground so unseriously that half of them became college professors and one of them was on Jeopardy, seems consistent.


That would actually be a great idea.




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