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So how about a federated weather service.
The NOAA's data already is crowdsourced. (Technically not the same as "federated," but similar ethos.) Accuweather is trying to steal it.
More info:
https://www.weather.gov/iln/cwop
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/cooperative-observer-network
And, insanely, archive links because this is the worst fucking timeline:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250210082537/https://www.weather.gov/iln/cwop
https://web.archive.org/web/20250207182410/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/cooperative-observer-network
This is how it started too! People sharing observations over letters and then telegraph.