* Adopt a colour scheme with similarity to the old BOM?
* Some way to store longer baseline movie animations in local state so people can avoid cost in you but run the weather radar for longer?
* Tide info? Hyper specific to people who do water things. Willyweather does this really well.
I use Willyweather and Windy. I used to use a weather app written by some mob called "shifty jelly" and their git logs were .. hysterical. Drunk fairy penguins seemed to cause most of the bugs.
Dataviz suggestions from top of the page to the bottom:
- Location search & display: no English version, only localized names, which is hard to reason if you don't know native language.
- Summary: a) what does precip. in % mean and how it correlates with cm? b) pressure is only displayed in hPa, while some countries prefer mmHg; c) what does ozone index mean and why is it important?
- Next 24 hours: visual indication for temp variation through the day would be easier to reason than just by looking at numbers (as discussed in TFA).
- Next 7 days:
a) unnecessary precision for y-axis (e.g. 10.9°C vs. 11°C);
b) band overshoot actual values (e.g. if I see 10..−10°C, I assume that would be max/min temp, but in fact it is 8..−9°C, which is impossible to tell without hovering mouse over);
c) no horiz. line through 0°C;
d) no horiz. lines through y-axis ticks, which makes it harder to reason about values closer to the end of the graph;
e) precip. in cm tells little, especially when band is alike (0.00..0.80 cm) - peaks on graphs look like a lot, in fact they are not? g) seeing blue precip. graph subconsciously means 'rain' to me, while in fact it would be snow;
f) labels for y-axis are at the same time very small, rotated 90° and also take too much horizontal space from the graph.
- Map: moving mouse over next 7 days graph causes time shown on map to change that would make sense if map's timeline would cover all 7 days, but it only covers small part of today.
- Week:
a) fog icons look like they have solid white square background, which seems to be off compared to other icons;
b) low/high values are hard to reason about, especially when it says 'Low … at 11am' and there is no tick labeled '11am' (10am .. 12pm) - displaying a line through coldest/warmest hours with °C value next to it would be much easier to understand.
Also: displaying air quality prediction based on last year's AQ would be helpful.
Could you tell me the significance of the location in Australia that's used by default? I frequently clear browser cookies and history so it often jumps back there, so I see that location a lot, but can never envision exactly why it was the default. (Specifically, a point along Gol Gol Road in Arumpo, NSW, Australia.)
tha_hnrain|1 month ago
Leftium|1 month ago
Some differences:
- Shows weather from yesterday for comparison
- All hourly plot trackers connected; not just the top one
- Includes AQI
- Sky color visualization (try scrubbing across dawn/dusk!)
- Non-precipitation colors approximate sky color (haziness)
- Temperature variation visualized both spatially and with colors
- Data source is Open Meteo
- Planned: 60 minutely forecast like https://openweathermap.org
TuringTest|1 month ago
kotaKat|1 month ago
guillohm|1 month ago
ggm|1 month ago
* Adopt a colour scheme with similarity to the old BOM?
* Some way to store longer baseline movie animations in local state so people can avoid cost in you but run the weather radar for longer?
* Tide info? Hyper specific to people who do water things. Willyweather does this really well.
I use Willyweather and Windy. I used to use a weather app written by some mob called "shifty jelly" and their git logs were .. hysterical. Drunk fairy penguins seemed to cause most of the bugs.
seletskiy|1 month ago
- Location search & display: no English version, only localized names, which is hard to reason if you don't know native language.
- Summary: a) what does precip. in % mean and how it correlates with cm? b) pressure is only displayed in hPa, while some countries prefer mmHg; c) what does ozone index mean and why is it important?
- Next 24 hours: visual indication for temp variation through the day would be easier to reason than just by looking at numbers (as discussed in TFA).
- Next 7 days: a) unnecessary precision for y-axis (e.g. 10.9°C vs. 11°C); b) band overshoot actual values (e.g. if I see 10..−10°C, I assume that would be max/min temp, but in fact it is 8..−9°C, which is impossible to tell without hovering mouse over); c) no horiz. line through 0°C; d) no horiz. lines through y-axis ticks, which makes it harder to reason about values closer to the end of the graph; e) precip. in cm tells little, especially when band is alike (0.00..0.80 cm) - peaks on graphs look like a lot, in fact they are not? g) seeing blue precip. graph subconsciously means 'rain' to me, while in fact it would be snow; f) labels for y-axis are at the same time very small, rotated 90° and also take too much horizontal space from the graph.
- Map: moving mouse over next 7 days graph causes time shown on map to change that would make sense if map's timeline would cover all 7 days, but it only covers small part of today.
- Week: a) fog icons look like they have solid white square background, which seems to be off compared to other icons; b) low/high values are hard to reason about, especially when it says 'Low … at 11am' and there is no tick labeled '11am' (10am .. 12pm) - displaying a line through coldest/warmest hours with °C value next to it would be much easier to understand.
Also: displaying air quality prediction based on last year's AQ would be helpful.
schoen|1 month ago
bmink|1 month ago
the__alchemist|1 month ago
Nice things:
Leftium|1 month ago
chrisweekly|1 month ago
CraigRood|1 month ago
chrneu|1 month ago
Windy.app is for wind based water activities. Windy.com is a data-heavy weather information site.