Fortunately someone recreated a clone at https://merrysky.net, which was featured [1] on HN some time ago.
I've used it daily since.
I've used it daily since.
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
- https://weather-sense.leftium.com/?n=nyc
n is short for "name" and uses the Open Meteo geocoding API[1].
* 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.
- 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.
Nice things:
- Loads fast
- Nice vis of both today and week
- Can mouse over the visualizations to get precise readouts.- Now most gradients are disabled by default. (toggle here: https://weather-sense.leftium.com/wmo-codes)
- Also added shadow/glow to plot lines so they "pop out" more.
I'm not sure which parts you think are blue and teal. Open to suggestions for better colors! (There are only so many colors, and I like keeping the precipitation related colors all bluish.)
There's a screen shot showing what it used to look like before gradients: https://github.com/Leftium/weather-sense
- Toggling C/F also toggles the scale on the radar to km. Eventually, I will get around to adding a dedicated settings page.
- However, the app was designed so one could get a sense of the weather without numeric labels: temperature is a very relative experience, so use the spatial/color cues to compare yesterday, today, and forecast days.
- Notice now much more space C needs when toggling between C and F. F's 0 to 99 range fits the natural range of temperatures humans experience (weather, body temperature). Humans just don't experience anything beyond 50 degrees C. At the same time, a single delta C is too large for the precision human bodies can detect. (Humans need something closer to 0.5C precision, which is what 1 degree F is.)
- As as result C needs nearly twice as much horizontal space compared to F: due to going negative more often and needing an extra decimal for minimal precision required.
Fahrenheit goes negative at a measly -18C. Where I live -20 to -30C is not uncommon. Whether it's 17.5 or 18C typically does not matter, continual changes in wind and other factors will for pretty much all practical purposes quench that difference.
Weather uncertainty may make that extra precision less useful.
Windy.app is for wind based water activities. Windy.com is a data-heavy weather information site.