# Thanks for the better\_forecast API

**URL:** <https://community.tempest.earth/t/thanks-for-the-better-forecast-api/15261>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [October 20, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/thanks-for-the-better-forecast-api/15261 "2021-10-20T00:35:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![peter4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@peter4](https://community.tempest.earth/u/peter4)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/thanks-for-the-better-forecast-api/15261/1 "2021-10-20T00:35:38Z")

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Weatherflow, thanks for [the better\_forecast API](https://weatherflow.github.io/Tempest/api/swagger/#!/forecast/getBetterForecast)!

I had reason to use it this weekend – rain was likely, and I wanted to know how much to expect (our yard is torn up, with much loose soil that could easily wash away if we got a lot of rain). My old forecast sources, the hometown newspaper’s website & the local TV station’s weather app, told me how likely it was that rain would fall, but not how much was expected. As usual.

Enter better\_forecast! A bit of time hacking a shell script to grab the JSON, process the forecast.hourly array, and not only did I have the info I needed about the weekend rain, but I now also have a task emailing me each morning if there’s a significant chance of rain in the next few days, and that email that contains both probability _and_ accumulation predictions – hourly for today, and daily for the next few. 🙂

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**Author:** ![iladyman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/iladyman/32/2305_2.png) [@iladyman](https://community.tempest.earth/u/iladyman)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/thanks-for-the-better-forecast-api/15261/2 "2021-10-20T00:42:25Z")

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Sounds nice, well done! And how did the actual forecast compare to your actual rainfall?  
Cheers Ian

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**Author:** ![peter4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@peter4](https://community.tempest.earth/u/peter4)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/thanks-for-the-better-forecast-api/15261/3 "2021-10-20T02:31:46Z")

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Thanks. It’s hard to say. The forecast was .13 inches and we saw .24 inches, so just a few mm off, which I found encouraging, certainly adequate for my needs. I’m planning to analyze forecast vs Tempest haptic vs corrected daily rain after a few weeks, when I have more data.