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Improved Google Weather

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47 pointsartursapek14 comments

Needs better wording. At first i thought it was a wiki-like effort to collect more accurate temperature information (far fetched, i know, but i 'm conditioned). I dismissed it without realizing its aprilfoolness

Also, after you set the weather it doesn't actually edit the weather display, there's just a "Dismiss" button.

It would have been so much cooler if it did that. Ooh! And then stored the result in a cookie so every time you go back it shows "your" weather. You could wow your friends by showing them how you can edit Google.*

Ah well.

* Actually, this could be an even better April Fool's joke: rearrange and edit the Google search results.

.. this is clearly an April Fools joke.. "do you agree to be responsible for the weather in Seattle?". I'd say yes, but I have a feel that Chuck Norris,who's actually in charge, might not like that.

Can someone explain, please? I don't seem to get a much different result than before?

They added a feature to let you change the weather if you don't like it.

Screenshots if you're not seeing it: http://imgb.mp/h8k.jpg http://imgb.mp/h8l.jpg

Oh, I thought that Update Weather was something related to choosing a different city to look at the weather for.

Try changing the weather in your city to "Heavy Snow". Wait 45 minutes and you'll see the difference.

Nope, my browser is too old - I don't get that option.

The delay in updating the weather really takes the "wind" out of the April Fool joke.

They made you a master over weather.

Looks like they were a bit hasty in doing it. When I search "weather chicago" it breaks ... http://flic.kr/p/bHDLKn

I've left my coffee on the window, then I changed the temperature to 100 Celsius. It's been a hour. It's getting colder and colder. Does not work!!

lol

You must be insane. Good thing it didn't work!

Coming next year: self-driving weather machines!

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