Forecast Check
Compare weather models with nearby observations
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Details
- External ID
- 1273667
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Forecast Check
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3259180348414588
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 9, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 9, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
A free Chrome extension that checks nine forecast sources against nearby airport observations. Compare recent day-ahead temperature errors, follow the lowest-error model, and see weather in your toolbar. No account, ads or tracking. 10 languages.
Enrichment
- Niche
- weather forecasting and emergency alerts
- Vertical
- Energy & climate
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- weather forecast model comparison against local observations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A Chrome extension that queries public weather API forecasts and compares them to METAR airport observation feeds is straightforward frontend logic and API integration.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 77 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #44 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 284 days after the earliest competitor.
- Éire Weather · ph · 2026-10-05 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- WeatherLike · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Weather Today · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Ranking weather models by how their forecasts turned out · hn · 2026-08-06 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Weather Today · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Weather app to show actual performance of weather models · hn · 2026-05-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Precip - Know exactly when it'll rain, down to the minute · yc · 2026-09-30 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Play or Postpone · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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