Downscaling weather forecasts

A method for downscaling a weather forecast, comprising the steps of:

• a) receiving, from a mobile computing device, location data indicative of a user location;
• b) requesting and receiving a local weather forecast for the user location;
• c) receiving cloud cover data and cloud type data from the mobile computing device, or receiving a sky image from the mobile computing device and determining cloud cover data and cloud type data based on the sky image;
• d) increasing a resolution of the local weather forecast based on the cloud cover data and the cloud type data, thus obtaining a downscaled local weather forecast;
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• e) sending the downscaled local weather forecast to the mobile computing device.

A method for obtaining a downscaled weather forecast, comprising the steps of:

• a) obtaining a sky image and location data indicative of a user location;
• b) sending the location data to a weather forecast provider;
• c) determining cloud cover data and cloud type data based on the sky image, and sending the cloud cover data and cloud type data to a server;
• or sending the sky image to the server;
• d) receiving a downscaled local weather forecast from the server.