weather.baby – Harrison Was Here

weather.baby

07 Jun, 2026

I got tired of Weather Underground loading slowly and being bombarded by advertisements looking for basic weather data... so I wrote my own.

weather.baby is my minimalist weather website with no ads, no cookies, and no tracking. It launched on February 2021.

FEATURES

Current conditions:<br>temperature

wind

humidity

rain chance

UV index

air quality

Location resolution with IP2Location or browser geolocation

Bookmarkable coordinate URLs<br>Latitude/Longitude /37.3797,-122.1375

US zip codes /90210

IP address lookups /8.8.8.8

Leaflet map with dragging and click-for-conditions

Sunrise/Sunset Times

Fahrenheit/Celsius selected based on browser locale

ALSO

Dynamic background based on time of day

World clocks

Geo info

Automatic refresh

Easter egg: Emojis appear on holidays

DATA SOURCES

Pirate Weather

WAQI

IP2Location

SunCalc.js

World Cities: KD-tree spatial index over ~150k world cities for nearest-city lookup

Moon math courtesy of Max

TECH STACK

Go backend

Vanilla JavaScript with some jQuery

I deploy 3 instances of the weather.baby container on my Nomad setup with Consul. The container is Alpine Linux with my custom httpd server.

SCREENSHOTS