When I first register my Zipatile, I try to find the closest possible weather station for getting the most accurate data on the outside conditions. To understand what I mean by that, here is an example. That all in theory sounds nice, and many people are doing so, however - users which relay on reliability of that data, such as us, are having a hard time dealing with it. Wunderground based their weather reports on a system of Personal Weather Stations or PWS which means that any user with a sensory device can send his temperature, humidity, and other reports to wunderground. Zipato platform is using the weather underground API for fetching the weather data and unfortunately that API has flaws and/or limitations.
Let me explain in short, also you will most likely need to create a new weather station for it to work again. May I humbly suggest that Zipato change to (free worldwide by Norwegian public weather service, with a great and simple API.), possibly also optionally connected to Netatmo's servers or one's private Netatmo gadget. If for some reason 1) they have problems getting updates from the private weather station, the forecast is also not updated, and 2) if they have problems with their servers, Zipato weather stuff is also affected. Looking at the website, it appears that this refers to whatever names private owners of online weather stations may have entered, and that this is coupled with some external forecast service.
I am not sure how the implementation is in Zipastuff, but I am afraid that the system is "simple" in that when you enter a city/town/place, it searches for whatever is available in the Weather Underground service with similar names. I don't know if this is a ZipaBug or a problem with which (afaik) is the service they use for weather station updates. * Please activate Speculation and nonsense filter */
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